josie;
> Josie *waving white flag from the naughty corner*
female mud-wrestlers [g].
> I'm innocent I tell you. I was the other side of the globe
> at the time. It wasnt me!
was so u -- you were ten when you swapped continents, so don't try to get
out from under by pleading your age.
> I was innocently using an apostrophe to mark a missing
> letter. Like you do in don't, don't you?
dat's different ...
> As for dialect, well I used to speak lancashire dialect and
> I recently found an old book of dialect poems that I was
> going to treat you to. But not now boyo!
[sob]
actually, and to be mildly serious [pedantic] for once, one reason nobody my
generation glasgow says dialect turns on when Scots split from english --
after barbour and before blind harry.
> I'll let you off about invasions of standard english as I'm
> constantly whining about invasions of standard american. I
> accept that glaswegian is a language in its own right, just
> as australian is.
>
> I'm crook and depressed at the moment so be nice. Spent the
> arvo writing the first chapter of _the book_. Not bad for a
> beginning.
forgive you if'n yool explain wicca to Chris jones -- after ul, yuz both
strailins thegither.
an, obviously, youz is a bloody echt wicca witch. not so [query]
> All is forgiven for one 'yir young' *grin*
aussie lite.
fosters
[smirk]
darth vader.
jack doughan iz ma name.
[alternatively, the wild colonial boy.]
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