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Kammer K
Kammer Sep 11, 2006 17:47:06
Replying to FourWinds

FourWinds wrote:
Bill was from the Midlands. It's highly bloody likely that he went to Tenby on his holidays! Probably went to Borth as well :-)
Don't start me on Brummies and Borth. Every summer our county becomes a temporary suburb of Birmingham.

According to Wikipedia, William Shakespeare may have spoken with a 'proto-Brummie' accent and dialect. That really changes the way you think of him... in a nice way of course.

;-)#

K x

F FourWinds
FourWinds Sep 11, 2006 18:07:44
Replying to Kammer

Kammer wrote:
According to Wikipedia, William Shakespeare may have spoken with a 'proto-Brummie' accent and dialect. That really changes the way you think of him... in a nice way of course.
One of my favourite parlour games - quoting Shakespeare in a Brummie accent*

‘Wun shull way thray mate agin? In thunda, loitning, or ray-in?’

'To bay or not to bay? that is da kwestiun.'

'In tha a dagger what I say befower may, thay 'ondle toward me 'ond?'

*Yes I am that sad sometimes ...