Mayner Posted Sunday at 23:33 Share Posted Sunday at 23:33 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted Sunday at 23:42 Share Posted Sunday at 23:42 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!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted Sunday at 23:43 Share Posted Sunday at 23:43 9 minutes ago, Horsetan said: Minnesota, by chance? Just over the state line in North Dakota. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRENNEIRE Posted Monday at 00:00 Share Posted Monday at 00:00 My favourite form is the Ben lang, if any of you out there is Malahide to it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudfan Posted Tuesday at 14:29 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 14:29 HO figure set Dominatrix and customer | HO gauge (modellbahnunion.com) Trying to figure a way of including this on the layout... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted Tuesday at 17:31 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:31 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfixfan Posted Tuesday at 17:56 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:56 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! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted Wednesday at 15:18 Share Posted Wednesday at 15:18 New security hut at government buildings...hmm.. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted Wednesday at 17:17 Share Posted Wednesday at 17:17 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted Thursday at 07:33 Share Posted Thursday at 07:33 (edited) 14 hours ago, Horsetan said: What did it cost? Is it big enough to park bicycles? €1.5m! Doubt it. Edited Thursday at 07:33 by minister_for_hardship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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