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I've just looked him up as well. It says his acting persona was with a Hertfordshire or Buckinghamshire accent.

Yes, he did advertise Mackeson.

Hi Julia

It's in Great Amwell, between Ware and Hoddesden.

On the subject of dialect..........I happened to catch a TV programme some months ago about a German experiment back in ww1.........they had recorded the voices of hundreds of English prisoners of war.

The recordings have survived all this time where as , sadly the dialects have not.

I wish I could remember what the programme was called as it was most interesting.

Oddly enough I was asked today if I was from London ( I live in Norfolk ) I was only 4 when I moved here but apparently the accent is still detectable....lol

Anyone from Cornwall know Kit Hill? My friend who is proper Cornish wore a little hat to a wedding and said her hat looked like a pimple on the top of Kit Hill!!!!!!!!!

Saaf Lon'on - nar'ot I mean?

Yes , Winterwitch , I saw those films and found them amazing. To think they were nearly chucked away !!
I was astounded at the amount of advertising on bill boards , buses/trams , buildings etc.

I love programmes about the past and how things used to be , it really helps to put one in touch with how our ancestors lives used to be.

weer asta bin sin ah saw thee?

on Ilkley Moor baht 'at

I doubt you would find many in Ilkley these days who talk like that.

WW ...wish I had seen that documentary

I too love programmes about the past and how things used to be, or at least the last 200 yrs.

Round where I live we call a wopse a jasper.

(wopse =wasp for those who don't speak Zummerzet).

"Where's he to?" means "Where is he?"

"If I'd a-know'd I 'ooden never a-went" means "Had I known I wouldn't have gone."

I hear quite a lot of dialect round here. I've been told I have a slight West Country accent when I meet friends from other places. My daughter in Yorkshire gets teased about hers. She gets quite broad Zummerzet when she has a couple of drinks! LOL

Sue
x

So does anyone know what a chuggypig is yet?

old Geordie shipyard saying

Hoyahammaowahere

Lol Sue

Chuggypig is a woodlouse and I don't need to google it.

LOL
Sue

translation "would you please be kind enough to pass a hammer in this direction"

Nope....never came across chuggypig.

steam locomotive?

Does anyone know what a " bishy barnabee" is then ?

A chuggypig is a .....................




















Woodlouse

Nope don't know what a Bishy Barnabee is

Interesting thread, just going to read it, Im fascinated by dialects, i have a strong one!

Caz x

Yes Winterwitch........a ladybird is the answer : )