O.T. : What Have We Done ... ?

[Doctor Drivel]

No there is not. I blame Thatcher for all this. Without here Maxie would not be in the gutter.

[The Medway Handyman]

Does anyone care?

[The Medway Handyman]

In that case why don't you stop posting s**te and making a complete pratt of yourself?

[geoff]

Prolly because its the only thing he is professionally competent at

[Janet Tweedy]

In article , The Natural Philosopher writes

So from where did the current teenage generation get the higher inflection at the end of a sentence, turning every statement into what sounds like a question?

[Stephen Howard]

Australian soaps.

Regards,

[Arfa Daily]

[The Natural Philosopher]

Australian soaps.

[Lino expert]

As others have said it's Aussie soaps, the trait's known as AQI (Australian Questioning Intonation)...the same source that leads more and more people to pronounce 'no' more similarly to 'nigh'. Have a listen to Abi (Abby, Abbey?) on Eastenders, she's a professional exponent.

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

Les (plural) :-)

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

Surely Welsh (Cymru) water? I know most of it heads off to Birmingham though. T'was lovely when I lived in the Midlands. Glawster wor aa is horribly hard in comparison.

[Rod]

Elan valley reservoirs serve Birmingham, Vyrnwy serves Liverpool (and the visiting Brummies). (Near enough.)

[<me9]

It's not just teenagers. 20s too. It's the long years viewing soaps from former colonies.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Bob Mannix" saying something like:

Utter, utter c*ck.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Doctor Drivel" saying something like:

Outside of Ealing Studios, did they ever?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember PeterC saying something like:

And still, some people think the Government has done nothing.

[Alang]

Indeed

I have a copy of Microsoft Bookshelf. A very handy reference application from 1995. A bit dated and also american biased but handy anyway. One function is a demonstration of how words should be pronounced. Clicking on 'Hotel' gets a distinctive american accent saying hotel. It doesn't say otel. Get the same with herb although this one does say the herb pronunciation is middle english with erb being french.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

All o Glasgay is hard, Jimmy.

[Doctor Drivel]

I have heard them all over Lahdan.

..He comes from Lanhdan ..Saying fink and fir-een ..He cannot speak properly, if you know what I mean

.."wiv aught me barra, me auld c*ck sparra" ..He constantly shouts when pushing his barra

..Adorned with muffler and cloth cap .."Boiled beef and carrots", he likes to yap.

..Lanhdan he travels, up and down ..Having a knees up with Mother Brown

..Leave him and his barra in streets he can ply ..He should be banned from uk.d-i-y

[Doctor Drivel]

Such a callous bastard!!! No concern about Maxie and his plight in the credit crunch. This one would walk over Maxie while he is in the gutter. Appalling!