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Thread ID: 103709	2009-10-03 22:02:00	Kiwi accent - Hard to understand?	papa_smurf (15292)	PC World Chat

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816679	2009-10-04 00:23:00	There is a cure for a hangover? Then there is a god! The good old days for me were hangovers than went at lunchtime not any more I have had two day hangovers. I worked in a large factory. My cure was to get two small bottles of milk & hide in toilets hardly ever used in one out of the way part. Sit on the pan & drink the milk. I would either keep the milk which settled my stomach, or heaved the lot back up again & flush out my stomach. Either way I felt a lot better. PJ	Poppa John (284)
816680	2009-10-04 01:09:00	As an immigrant the kiwi accent is probably the easiest of the English speaking languages to understand, much easier than American, Canadian, Australi whinge and anywhere North of London in England Wash your mouth out,we Derbyshireites resent that.	Cicero (40)
816681	2009-10-04 02:52:00	I stand by my claim, I have broad shoulders I can take it. Northern is so dull all eeeeeby gum and nowt and sentences beginning with T' and whyaye mon	gary67 (56)
816682	2009-10-04 03:37:00	It's the southerners, the likes of the Men of Kent and Sussex, that really started the Great Vowel Shift, and are actually mispronouncing nearly every word. :banana It's the northerners who are staying true to the way English was spake :) ..........hoo noo broon coo.............. :clap ...........and in the Black Country still they speak Old/Middle English.......... www.bbc.co.uk	Terry Porritt (14)
816683	2009-10-04 03:44:00	Oh my in the Black country they speak soooooooooo sloooooooooow especially around Birmingham. The men of Kent have stayed true to their roots, they resisted the Normans unlike the Kentish men who capitulated early on, We burnt Joan of Arc	gary67 (56)
816684	2009-10-04 03:48:00	Give him a proper history less Terr.	Cicero (40)
816685	2009-10-04 04:08:00	I've noticed several New Zealand English expressions come from the north of England, or at least north of a line Birmingham to The Wash. I can only think of one now off the top of my head.......:) it is "in the road", meaning "in the way" as in interfering with . I don't think that is used down the south of England. We used to use the expression "any road up" in the West Midlands, more or less meaning "anyway" in the middle of saying something. I dont know if that is used here	Terry Porritt (14)
816686	2009-10-04 04:23:00	We used to use the expression "any road up" in the West Midlands, more or less meaning "anyway" in the middle of saying something. I don't know if that is used here We didn't say that in Derbyshire,let alone here. The Blue John Cavern In Derbyshire Blue John is Britain's rarest mineral first discovered at Castleton by the Romans almost 2000 years ago. And are the worlds only known deposits of this extremely rare and beautiful stone. During excavations at Pompeii two vases of Blue John Stone were supposedly unearthed, evidence therefore that the Romans not only discovered the stone but also appreciated it for its ornamental value. The Blue John Cavern is home to 8 of the 14 known veins of this beautiful mineral. So when in Derbyshire,do visit Castlelton	Cicero (40)
816687	2009-10-04 04:44:00	When I was waiting in a queue at Disneyland with my then young daughter, a group of American girls asked us where we were from. We replied simply, "New Zealand." Apparently we were meant to say more as one of them said, "Don't stop talking - we love your accent." "Not difficult to understand?" I asked. "No," they chorused, "Just keep talking, we love it." Haha, my sister and I had the exact same experience there as well, many years ago. :D	FoxyMX (5)
816688	2009-10-04 04:48:00	Oh my in the Black country they speak soooooooooo sloooooooooow especially around Birmingham. The men of Kent have stayed true to their roots, they resisted the Normans unlike the Kentish men who capitulated early on, We burnt Joan of Arc Seems Gary is right, we have to eat humble yorkshire pie Cic; "Following the Norman invasion in 1066, William needed to pass through Kent on his way to London and the heart of England. Tradition has it that somewhere near Swanscombe, he was confronted by the Kentish 'home guard' - remember, despite his victory at Hastings, William's army had taken something of a beating and, if he was to continue unmolested, he had to agree to a number of old Kentish customs and rights. This ensured his continued rule. One such custom was Gavelkind and this system of land tenure and inheritance remained in place in Kent - and only in Kent - until 1925!" www.menofkentlynsted.org.uk	Terry Porritt (14)
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