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Old 27-08-2011, 21:49   #219
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Re: Old local expressions

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Originally Posted by Retlaw View Post
Thad wud a sounded like, "luks lyk a bomsitit".
Never cum across a Lanky Thesaurus, weyr du yu ged um fro, a cu du wi one o them.
Retlaw.
It would if we were translating received pronunciation.

Round here, where you never heard much of the Queen's English, they'd say,
'Looks like a bomb's hit.'

Which in Lanky would be shortened even further to,
'Looks like a bomzit.'

We're never happier than when shortening words, or dropping them all together.

Why waste time and energy, when you're pow fagged from a hard day's graft, saying two words, when one'll do?

That's my take on it, and what was said where I lived. Though as you posted, there will be deviations in speech, even within a radius of a few miles.

So really, seeing as Lanky dialect was spoken, and never intended to be written down, at least by the ordinary man, there's really no right, or wrong.

If it seems reet, it is.

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