Sayings

[cosmolinguist]

The first thing I heard anyone say when I got to Exeter -- anyone who wasn't a staff member of either the train station I wad coming from or the hotel I was going to -- was "all right my lover!" In exactly the accent that I've always heard in parodies of that.

It could not have been more stereotypical. I love it when these things happen. It's like that one time when I actually heard someone from Yorkshire say "there's nowt as queer as folk."

Comments

[annofowlshire]

There's a little article about it here that helped me figure out what they were saying (particularly the man who repairs our stone walls who doesn't codeswitch when talking to us outsiders), although I'm sure there are more academic ones around somewhere XD

[cosmolinguist]

I love this, thank you!