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[livejournal.com profile] yellowseptember and I have been sorta discussing linguistics, and Wenglish came up. This is the 'corruption' of English by those living in Wales (well d'uh!)

My absolute favourite phrase, which I can never say with the accent it requires, is "Oo's coh-t is tha' jack-et 'angin' up on th'floor?" ("Who's coat is on the floor?")

I found a website which gives examples of common phrases - and damned if I don't use a lot of them! *laughs* More than I realised. Most especially ""Stop you-er Yappin mun, you-er doin my 'ed in!" ("Shut up, man - you're giving me a headache!")

*chuckles*

Date: 2007-05-04 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yellowseptember.livejournal.com
:D I can close my eyes and totally see that. He's waving his finger around with a grouchy look on his face. *laughs*

Yah!!!

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