Prit wrote
> Subject: Re: Pigs and ICPC in Sri Lanka
> From: P S Buttar <[log in to unmask]>
> Jon wrote:
>
> >XA2Tx Hampster bite (sic)
> >
> >somewhat more common! (Does hamster have a pee?!).
>
> Not as far as I know! It's a local (Bristol) habit of inserting extra
> consonants into words - thus, 'Keynsham' is usually pronounced 'Keyntsham',
> etc.
They have (used to have) another speech habit, of tacking an "L"
sound onto the end of words that ended in a vowel; so "piano" would
become "pianol". I understand that at one time "Bristol" was
actually "Bristo".
> Prior to moving to Keynsham (sorry, Keyntsham), I had spent most of
> my time either moving around or living in Surrey. I'm quite
> astonished at how much variation there is in a relatively small area
> in terms of accents - quite different for Bath, Bristol, and the
> surrounding countryside.
We used to have a Prof of English at Leeds, who got rich and famous,
by beavering away at all the different dialect words, and then
producing maps of what word was used for what, where. Because it is
no use asking an old farm hand what he would call a spade, or
whatever, (you always get the same word back, usually with an
expletive) he used to drive around in an old van, full of the mortal
remains of agricultural implements, and then as k the old farm hand
what they were. The farm hands, quite naturally, assumed he was a
bloody idiot, but would tell him what weird word they used.
Nothing to do with Read codes; I just thought you all might like to
know.
Mike Wells
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