It's Keilwerth! Could we once and forever stop calling them " Keilworth " ?

[Jazzaferri]

I think most of us prefer it when people spell our names correctly.

My aunt lives up in Morecambe and has spent her whole life in NW England and Scotland. When I talk with her it takes me about 30 minutes til I am getting most of the words. LOL WE are supposedly speaking the same language but I sometimes think that up north it becomes almost a dialect.

Pete.... i would have spelled it "wotcher ea'in"

Completely apropos of nothing eh ...... the archetypal Canadian accent is supposed to be in a town named quite aptly "Horsefly"

[Pete Thomas]

Pete.... i would have spelled it "wotcher ea'in"

Could do, but "wotcher" is ambiguous as it also means "hello, how are you?"

[Kenneth]

When in Rome........

a Conn is still spelled C-O-N-N, which makes it easy for a non-American, non-European Conn-lover like me !

Kenneth

[Jazzaferri]

Lol Pete. I m beginning to think that the UK does speak a different language. Now I get it. Learn summat new every day

[milandro]

Well, recently I was at a trade fair in Cologne, a visitor from the USA told me that he had a terrible time trying to get a taxi to Bonn.......Because he kept on saying that he had to go to Bahnn! (trying to transliterate the accent) and no taxi driver would understand where he had to go to...


Jazzaferri it is notorious that England and the USA are ‘Two nations separated by a common language.’

[gary]

Well, recently I was at a trade fair in Cologne, a visitor from the USA told me that he had a terrible time trying to get a taxi to Bonn.......Because he kept on saying that he had to go to Bahnn! (trying to transliterate the accent) and no taxi driver would understand where he had to go to...

So he took him to Sean Connery's house. (Think about it.)

[Woosax]

I was at a conference in Japan about 8 yrs ago. We had a table for 15 for dinner at a nice restaurant. It was an international conference and we had people at our table from Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Finland, Japan, Thailand, and probably some other places who all spoke English as a second language (it was the language of the conference). Amid all of the considerable accents and typical difficulties with English grammar, the only two who couldn't understand each other were the native English speakers from Ireland and Scotland. Our attention was drawn to this fact when (after a several libations) the Scotsman slammed his hands on the table and shouted "Wot er ye sayn man?"

[bakkiemetkoekie]

And Couf is that pronounced as cough (not that i want to be an interrupter)

[hakukani]

And Couf is that pronounced as cough (not that i want to be an interrupter)

I guess someone should've told Herb...

[Jazzaferri]

Yeah it's pretty sad when a guy doesn't know how to pronounce his name

[milandro]

So he took him to Sean Connery's house. (Think about it.)

James Bahnn?