British Language

[Joe Bento]

I live and work in Utah.  My observation is as follows:

Dialects within Britain must be difficult even for the natives.  I 
have a good friend who is a Londoner.  He speaks for the most part in 
the Queen's English as you might hear on the BBC. He's very easy to 
understand.  

My boss at work is a native Mancunian (from Manchester).  I find that 
I must listen extremely carefully to understand him, and 
unfortunately have to occasionally ask him to repeat himself. 

However, having now been with the company for several months, I've 
learned to understand him much better, especially some of the 
Mancunian / Scouser slang.  

Joe


-- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Wolfie!" <wuff at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > What I find especially interesting about it is that we
> > hear it used by the Australians so much.  Almost like
> > it's their own word (like so many American slang
> > words).  Maybe it's because of the characters like
> > Crocodile Dundee and Stever Erwin (not a made-up
> > character like Dundee, but a "character" nontheless!
> > LOL).
> 
> Lets clarify this, I'm an Ozzy :)
> You heard Steve Irwin say it a lot... in fact it is *seldom*
> used by australians and is British slang.
> 
> Irwin made it his own.
> 
> And yes, he was certainly a character. :)
> 
> Wolfie!
>