Subject: Your home town
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Mar 29 19
Without naming the city/town/village, tell us what it is best known for. My home town (the city in which I was born in the UK) is known as a centre for the jewellery trade, and gold- and silver-smithing..
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Mar 29 19
Without naming the city/town/village, tell us what it is best known for. My home town (the city in which I was born in the UK) is known as a centre for the jewellery trade, and gold- and silver-smithing..
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UmberWunFayun 
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More like Ozzy Osbourne, but without all the "uuuuhhhh's". Reply #21. May 12 19, 8:35 AM |
sadwings
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Ahyuk! Cat-killer Ozzy! You know what I like the most about the way some of you guys talk over there? Nobody really talks this way over there any more from what I gather, but I just love it when I hear you crazy cats say stuff like "I say, old boy, would you happen to have the time, my good man?" You know, especially stuff like "I say" and "my good man" and stuff like that. I guess Hollywood and the American media has brainwashed all of us over here into believing that that's how everybody talks over there. :-p Reply #22. May 12 19, 9:07 AM |
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There are still some posh people who talk that way, but it's a lot rarer nowadays. That's definitely mostly in movies. In the Black Country we do use some posh old terms like 'chap' for a man, but we don't use them in a posh way. Nobody says "Hello, old chap!" but we might say, "Alright, chap!" or use it the way you might use 'man' or 'dude' at the end of a sentence. More often it's 'kid' or 'our kid' for a guy, 'bab' or 'chick' for a girl. Reply #23. May 13 19, 7:53 AM |
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To clarify; we don't call girls 'chicks' as if we're in Happy Days or Grease, we use it as a term of address to a girl, as in, "How are you, chick?" As the internet spreads its web of influence, however, some of these terms are being slowly replaced by more universal words like 'babe' and 'hun', which is short for 'honey' but always misspelled and irritates me greatly. A hun is a very different thing to a hon. I'm getting old. Reply #24. May 13 19, 7:59 AM |
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I say! Might you be aging a bit rapidly? Ahyuk! I wonder what I would sound like over there with my southern drawl like Festus on Gunsmoke or like tons of those country music singers? I honestly don't talk like that in my normal voice but I can twang it out southern style pretty easily when I'm clowning around. I mean, I grew up around that kind of stuff and been around it most of my life. I'd love to see how the people over there would react to me saying things like "Howdy, folks! How are y'all doin'? I'm fixin' to do me a little sight seein' and I was wonderin' what all kinda stuff y'all had to look at around here?" Ha! Oh man, I could have such a great time in so many different ways over there! :-) Reply #25. May 13 19, 11:49 AM |
Mixamatosis
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Kev, Keith Richards comes from London (well Kent but near enough). That accent is nothing like the Birmingham accent. You must know the Brummie accent. It's Ozzie Osbourne's accent. Not all people in Birmingham speak like that though. The middle class tend to speak a kind of standard English that's not identifiable to a specific place. When I was young, until I went to primary school, I had an Irish accent as my parents were Irish. Then I got a Brummie accent but I don't have it now as I've lived in other places for much longer. It does come out sometimes though in certain words I say. Reply #26. May 19 19, 1:48 PM |
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Oops I missed out a whole page of comments somehow. I see Jo has already covered most of this. I'd say people in England are much more used to American accents than Americans are to (normal) English accents as we see a lot of American TV here. Reply #27. May 19 19, 1:51 PM |
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Reginal D Hunter is quite a popular comedian here and he has a Southern American drawl. Reply #28. May 19 19, 1:52 PM |
satguru
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My birthplace is best known for Dick Whittington, and actually named after it. It is also the same hospital who 13 years later took out my appendix. I lived somewhere where kings were not actually buried in, before we moved to London's best planned community till I returned to the place of the kings 30 years later where I remain. Reply #29. May 25 19, 9:28 PM |
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Satguru. If I've interpreted your hints correctly, my daughter was born at that hospital and I was successfully treated for cancer there. Brilliant place. Reply #30. Jun 12 19, 2:30 AM |
cashmincalc
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Cobbled streets Smuggling Reply #31. Jun 14 19, 10:12 AM |
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cashmincalc. Cornwall? Reply #32. Jun 16 19, 2:53 AM |
| sadwings
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Wow, Mix, I had never even heard of that Hunter guy. Had to Google him. Watched a clip of his stuff, and yeah, he has a little bit of a southern drawl, but nowhere near like that Festus character on Gunsmoke. That's about as hillbilly as it gets right there. :-p Reply #33. Jun 20 19, 8:33 AM |
ramonesrule
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Spirit Catcher sculpture and a huge arts and crafts festival annually in August. Reply #34. Sep 02 19, 8:21 PM |
THartmann9374
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My hometown is a capital of Nike shoes. Reply #35. Sep 07 19, 1:45 PM |
spanishliz
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Mine is also the hometown of the star/creator of the TV show "Letterkenny" and a possible model for the town in that series. Reply #36. Sep 07 19, 3:00 PM |
rockstar51
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My hometown is renowned for Table Mountain. Reply #37. Oct 12 19, 4:38 AM |
rubytops
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Mine renowned for a famous moptop group and a great foitnpball/soccer team which play in a red strip not blue. Reply #38. May 16 20, 1:07 PM |
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