Adam Borowski <[email protected]> wrote: >> Walking around Glasgow, you might find >> the brogue bewildering, but in Amsterdam? Never. > > There are worse cases. There's a place called "London", where a sign says > "Sloane Square" yet the station announcement (by a person paid to have clear > diction) says "Ten Ske". > > So people in, say, Stockholm, bother to learn English, people in London > don't.
Ha, yes that is true ! I think it was Jasper Carrot (a brit comedian from Birmingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Carrott) who did a gag some years ago about how foreigners go to great lengths to learn English - then they come here and find that we don't speak it. A significant element of his comedy was maming fun of the Birmingham accept (or "Brummy"). And if we find ourselves talking to a call centre in Glasgow - well that's worse than the ones in India :D _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
