STUMPED for words!........but now, i can say Thankyou.

I don't get cockney slang. Is it supposed to be funny? Half the time the words don't even rhyme if you're actually aware of the different vowels available for use in the English language. How on Earth "door" can rhyme with "saw" for example, I'll never know.

Saying that, we're talking about the same country that can't tell the difference between the words "Bought" and "Brought". It wouldn't be nearly some tragic if it wasn't their own language they can't speak! :LOL:
 
jamie_duff said:
I don't get cockney slang. Is it supposed to be funny? Half the time the words don't even rhyme if you're actually aware of the different vowels available for use in the English language. How on Earth "door" can rhyme with "saw" for example, I'll never know.

Saying that, we're talking about the same country that can't tell the difference between the words "Bought" and "Brought". It wouldn't be nearly some tragic if it wasn't their own language they can't speak! :LOL:
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I bought my haggis from a butchers shop, but i brought it back home with me :)


Rhyming slang is just that, not intentionally funny and not always understood by anybody other than a cockney, as opposed to a Londoner :)
 
A magnificent gesture Dick and Al a very worthy recipient

been to Scotland whilst working as service engineer travelling around and must say wonderful countryside and open spaces, Scots have always been friendly and helpful when i've meet them and never tried to imply that my London accent made it difficult to understand what was being said, unlike some english they hear an accent not just Scottish and straight away it's i don't understand, rather that listen to the words being spoken and much easier to understand that way

cockney for door is Dorothy Lamour, sometimes the slang is abbreviated then it lose's the rhyming part so it can be confusing - plates of meat = feet, but often shortened to just plates

some words come from regions, take the bread roll refereed to as a cob in east midlands area as well as others and called many other things in different parts of country

even words spelt the same cause problems in English language take "wind" depending on context it pronounced different and means different things
 
This is what happens when you are nice to people and help them out Alan - I did warn you!

Seriously though a superb and generous gesture and very deserving, just goes to emphasize what a great bunch of people make this club what it is

I AM PROUD TO BE A PART OF IT(y)
 
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