Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The country, and the languages and the accents...

"Ah loov thess koontry" is my attempt a trying to convey phonetically, how some of the accents sound.
I really enjoy hearing all the accents, but it can take a bit of getting used to, as I suppose it is for them to hear us. 
When we asked at the Reception at Hull about directions to Beverly, Vikki said to me, "oh, joost go art of carpark, and ont roared, und tearn rate at roundabout, end follow sarns to Beverley" 

Later, in Hull, a very helpful Christine was writing down some postcodes to get directions on-line for us to go on to Dumfries, which is DG1 3JX. When she was spelling it out to me, it was DEE, GEE, WON, THRARE, JAIR, HIX. 
Love it, but now we are in Scotland (getting a little ahead of myself), we have to listen even more carefully!!

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