To lighten the mood.

[Mayner]

2 hours ago, LNERW1 said:

On the topic of accents, I’ve heard a story that sometime, maybe a few decades prior to the beginning of the plantations, a British court set up in an English-speaking pocket somewhere in Cork. After a while there were complaints to those that had sent them there. “These people speak Irish, we can’t understand them.” An interpreter was sent over, and after arriving at the court he very quickly clarified that they were not, in fact, speaking Irish, but just had a Cork accent.

Languages and dialects tend to evolve differently in settler communities after they leave the 'mother country', or sometimes appear to remain frozen at a particular time. Apparrently the French Canadian's consider their language to be a purer version of the mother tongue and New Zealand English is now considered to be a separate version of the English language, the accent apparrently evolved from that spoken by the eraly settlers who migrated from the English Home Counties.

The Tudor Kings always appear to have been struggling to bring their Irish Anglo-Norman Vassals into line and pay their tribute to the King probably spoke a different version of English to that spoke at Court in London with a Cork accent! 

Like the children and grandchildern of modern day emigrants to England, the grandchildren and great grandchildren of the Anglo-Normans invaders of the 12th Century are likely to have spoken a version of English with a regional accent. Did the Fitzgeralds (Earls of Desmond) speak with a Cork or Welsh accent during the 1st Elizabethan era!

[Broithe]

There was a series of programmes a few years back on the BBC about the various forms of English from the old empire days

One of them was about Nigerian English, which can often be more 'proper' than what the English believe to be the 'real thing'.

One of the examples given was the overheard  conversation between two women in the queue at Lagos airport - one was complaining to the other about her husband and how much he had annoyed her - "Do you know, my vexation was beyond accountability.."

In 'real' English, that would just be "He really pissed me off!"

 

[Mayner]

9 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Minnesota, by chance?

Just over the state line in North Dakota.  

[WRENNEIRE]

My favourite form is the Ben lang, if any of you out there is Malahide to it?

[spudfan]

HO figure set Dominatrix and customer | HO gauge (modellbahnunion.com)

Trying to figure a way of including this on the layout...

[Horsetan]

3 hours ago, spudfan said:

HO figure set Dominatrix and customer | HO gauge (modellbahnunion.com)

Trying to figure a way of including this on the layout...

I'm not sure any excuse is needed. 

[airfixfan]

3 hours ago, spudfan said:

HO figure set Dominatrix and customer | HO gauge (modellbahnunion.com)

Trying to figure a way of including this on the layout...

Would teach Translink management a lesson or 2!

[minister_for_hardship]

New security hut at government buildings...hmm..

[Horsetan]

1 hour ago, minister_for_hardship said:

New security hut at government buildings...hmm..

 

What did it cost? Is it big enough to park bicycles?

[minister_for_hardship]

14 hours ago, Horsetan said:

What did it cost? Is it big enough to park bicycles?

€1.5m!

Doubt it.

Edited September 26 by minister_for_hardship

[Killian Keane]

[LNERW1]

“Unofficial”, I want to see the official one.

[Broithe]

33 minutes ago, LNERW1 said:

“Unofficial”, I want to see the official one.

This might be on it?

I suddenly remembered seeing this lot around 1977, I think.