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i was wondering what do you find strange when travelling in the uk, no abuse or calling or it will be another thread closed,,, i can never get my head around travelling 40 mins to liverpool and it seems you may as well as travelled 6hours as i cant understand a word they say or when ive been to london to watch the football and just stopped at the lights and two blokes without asking have started to clean my windowscreen and charged me 1,50:eek: then went to the chip shop outside west ham and asked for a chip barm and she didnt have a clue what i wanted or the times ive been down to bristol and seen them playing skits on a friday night ...what have you found strange or funny when visiting somewhere else in the uk :thumb:

 

Went to cornwall with my parents as a young girl and had one of the maddest experience.

My Dad being a big tea drinker wanted a pint mug-you know the big cups.


" A point margg?" (Elongated vowels)

"No a pint mug"(flat vowels)

"`ere! This charrrrp is arrrfta a point margg"

As a little girl I found it funny anyway.



Guess you must have been there!

 

No chip shops nearby sell steak and kidney puddings! When I lived near Swindon the chipshops version of mushy peas were squashed processed peas - they definately weren't mushy at all. Lots of places I've been to wouldn't know what a barmcake was - it was called either a bap or a roll.

LOL lollipop, I'd still find it funny if I over heard something like that.

 

squashed processed peas :D:D =MUSHY .. my mates in bristol always make me drink a pint ov cider in a pub near bristol citys ground when i visit them and when she pours it they tell her to kill it... i seen more life in a fish pond.......it tastes hangin

 

I went to Scotland once and I mostly saw Italians. There were hardly any Scottish people. Think they'd gone into hiding as it was Grockle season

 

I'm a Mancunian living down south. It makes me laugh to hear my children speaking with Southern accents. My son 26 has a strong Hampshire drawl, one daughter 24 has a definite Basingstoke accent and the other daughter is dead posh sounding:D
They take the mickey out of my accent in a nice way.

They don't know what a barm cake is down south although things have definitely improved since Warburtons bread started to be sold here.

Chips and gravy are rarely found in the south - my kids were amazed when their Northern cousins asked for chips and gravy.

Fortunately I get the best of both worlds and spend loads of time in Manchester, me and my daughter love going up there for a fix of normality :p

 

The English:
it's amazing how dialects alter in just a few miles i'm tking a degree in geordie speak and don't think i'm too bad at it

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it's amazing hoo dialects alter in just a few miles ahm tking a degree in geordie speak an divvent think ahm tee bad at it.
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