[lobstaboy]

I speak 'Lahnd'n' when I'm a'tome. Well Essex really. If you go by numbers of speakers in the UK then it is how English should be pronounced cos there more of us than anyone else

Jacob Rees Mogg? I fink 'e's a cant.
(With apologies to Viz and the writers of one of its funniest strips Cockney W**ker)

[kanga]

..

Transliterated as an apostrophe. I used to work with Ali Mas'ad. hmmm possibly more a's and glottal stops in that surname.

indeed, but I shall (unless invited otherwise) resist trying to explain hamzat-ul-qat' and 'ayn, and how they are now represented in Maltese, the only Semitic language usually written in Latin script ..

[PeteSpencer]

Don't bother, I'll ask our cleaning lady.

[flybymike]

Looks like things might get worse before they get better.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/midd ... -797jpqxjl

[haggis]

Well in that case we should see an influx of Rab C clones on the telly soon. Haud me back canny wait, help ma boab but will there be room for Mary doll?

Have people nothing better to do with their time than waste other people's with their "solutions"? As we all should know it's not what you know it's who you know

[kanga]

.. As we all should know it's not what you know it's who you know

whom

[does that pedantry qualify or disqualify me for employment ?]

[flybymike]

Yore just to posh innit.....

[haggis]

I think Rab C would tell you exactly in in no uncertain terms where to stick your "whom" . No sub titles required!

[rats404]

I have Brian Blessed as the voice on my satnav. The instructions range from smooth and gentle suggestions to Prince Voltan bellowing orders at me. All perfectly understandable.

[Korenwolf]

More years ago than it's comfortable to remember, I was working in the despatch department of a large aviation concern at Stansted....one of our customers was Buffalo Airways (not that one, but another of the same name, based in Texas) They had leased a 707 to Heavylift, and a load of their people were with the aircraft.

One afternoon, a couple of engineers from Buffalo arrived at the doors with a car to collect various components from our workshops that had been completed. There was also a wheel and brake ready for collection, which wouldn't fit in the Mark III Escort estate that they were driving.

George, the Cuban-Texan flight mech, asked if we would still be around if they nipped back for the Transit van. Our stores supervisor, a wizened old Sarfend geezer, replied...

"Yeahshouldfinkso"

To which George stood puzzled for a second or two, turned to me and asked;

"What'd he just say.....?"

[kanga]

More years ago than it's comfortable to remember, I was working in ... Our stores supervisor, a wizened old Sarfend geezer, replied...

"Yeahshouldfinkso"

To which George stood puzzled for a second or two, turned to me and asked;

"What'd he just say.....?"

and, for me, in the branch base of a charter airline, communicating with HQs mostly by TELEX. A visiting HQs engineer was in live (as opposed to cheaper and quicker prepunched paper tape) TELEX exchange with his office, and was impatient for a reply:

"Come on George, get your finger out" he typed. I could predict the answer
"It's Sandra, where's the finger supposed to be ?"

Those who were not regular users may not have realised that just as there are accents in language and 'fist's in Morse, there are 'style's in TELEX. I had realised it was Sandra at the other end ..

[names changed to protect the innocent, or rather to conceal my detailed memory loss ]