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  • Pyxis
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    iris wrote: »
    My husband comes from Gornal (where they put the pig on the wall to watch the band go by:rotfl:). He says he has never heard of Gornalese.

    Hello, Iris!
    And welcome to the thread! It's amazing what you can learn on here! Latest thing is regional dialects! (Being a language enthusiast, I find it fascinating!)
    I never knew about the pig on the wall before today, either, or that Sue Lawley came from Gornal! You wouldn't think it from her RP though! :D
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  • seven-day-weekend
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    iris wrote: »
    My husband comes from Gornal (where they put the pig on the wall to watch the band go by:rotfl:). He says he has never heard of Gornalese.


    Duz ee spake it, though, ower kid? It'z a werd Ar meddup.

    (I don't actually speak like this although I do have a West Midlands accent :) ).
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  • iris
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Hello, Iris!
    And welcome to the thread! It's amazing what you can learn on here! Latest thing is regional dialects! (Being a language enthusiast, I find it fascinating!)
    I never knew about the pig on the wall before today, either, or that Sue Lawley came from Gornal! You wouldn't think it from her RP though! :D



    According to my husband Sue Lawley actually came from Sedgley, which apparently is near to Upper Gornal where my husband lived. She was his doctor's daughter, but he didn't know her.
  • dibuzz
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    seven-day-weekend wrote: »
    Duz ee spake it, though, ower kid? It'z a werd Ar meddup.

    (I don't actually speak like this although I do have a West Midlands accent :) ).

    Can someone let me know when you all start speaking English again please? :D
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  • seven-day-weekend
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    iris wrote: »
    According to my husband Sue Lawley actually came from Sedgley, which apparently is near to Upper Gornal where my husband lived. She was his doctor's daughter, but he didn't know her.

    Orr, Sedgley am nexta Gornal.

    Dibuzz -ENGLISH, Yes, Sedgley is next to Gornal, we dogsit for our friends there, nice little town. Good Wetherspoons!
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  • Waves_and_Smiles
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    Hello Iris! Do you know what a huge favour you just did me? My beloved aunt always used to say to me as a child "We put the pig upon the wall to let the band go by" and said it was from where she and my dad grew up before they moved to Folkstone. I never knew where that was! It was a memory that I had forgotten over the years and now I know the answer! I am totally stunned and so happy I finally know! Utterly gobsmacked here.
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  • Waves_and_Smiles
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    Minor embarrassing things- My teacher friends wife forwarded me an email for travel scrabble which is going around her friends. You choose your word and then send it back to the person who sent it to you and 9 other people who might like to play and it widens the circle. I don't know 9 other people! I feel like Billie-no-mates now...
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  • Pyxis
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    Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »
    Minor embarrassing things- My teacher friends wife forwarded me an email for travel scrabble which is going around her friends. You choose your word and then send it back to the person who sent it to you and 9 other people who might like to play and it widens the circle. I don't know 9 other people! I feel like Billie-no-mates now...


    Erm....excuse me? How many of us are on here?

    Why don't you start it off on here and when we've done 8, WaSp can be the ninth!
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  • Waves_and_Smiles
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    edited 9 September 2014 at 6:24PM
    Ooooh, didn't think anyone would be interested! No one has to join in, please don't feel obligated! I cringe at these things because it feels like asking people to do something with no choice. I'll stop falling over myself now.

    The idea is you take the word you are given and each person takes a turn to make a new word by changing only one letter. For example, West = best = beat = bent = sent = east. Once I have 9 I send it back to the original person and to someone new, so I shall use my best friend for that.

    The word I have been given is teal so if I start it off-

    Teal=Team
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  • Pyxis
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    edited 9 September 2014 at 6:33PM
    Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »
    Ooooh, didn't think anyone would be interested! No one has to join in, please don't feel obligated! I cringe at these things because it feels like asking people to do something with no choice. I'll stop falling over myself now.

    The idea is you take the word you are given and each person takes a turn to make a new word by changing only one letter. For example, West = best = beat = bent = sent = east. Once I have 9 I send it back to the original person and to someone new, so I shall use my best friend for that.

    The word I have been given is teal so if I start it off-

    Teal=Team. (1)

    (Team)..........Tear. (2)
    (I just lurve spiders!)
    INFJ(Turbulent).
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    I'm in a clique! It's a clique of one! It's a unique clique!
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