its midnight, and friday. so he will be partakeing in the ancient british tradition of walking down the road, drunk as a skunk, with a traffic cone one his head, waiting to see a statue to place the cone on, and singing loudly the only three lines he can remember of the last song that was playing in the pub.

then he will be picked up by the rozzers for urinating in a doorway

How do all

Nah den, how's thee all diddlin? a big ey up from Yorkshire!

I was wondering about people from the UK on these forums. Not too many about. Glad this part of the forum is up an running. I wll certainly pop in when I can.

On the subject of language and accents, for a country so small we have such a varied language within our mother tonge. Many local dialects confuse even those that live in the same country.

I live in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and will sound completely different from someone in the south, west and north. The strange thing is, even within Yorkshire there are more local dialects that vary from city to city. I speak differently from those in Barnsley, which is a small town only 9 miles from me. I love having arguments on how word should be pronounced and what certain items are called.

Anyway, have a look at these http://www.yorkshire-dialect.org/dictionary.htm if you want an english lesson that will truly confuse you. These are words taken from the Yorkshire dialect. There are some words I have never heard of in here as they are used in another part of Yorkshire!

Now i'm going to teem some ale in my tankard and sup it up.

sithee

Gerard

Hi Gerald, We are trying to learn ya'll dialect. I'll go there now and see how different it is.

Me, Kim and Kristi are all from Tx and we have invaded the UK thread!!...

Al says we are a bad influence on ya'll but WE don't really think so!..

Be back in a bit, gonna go see about that link you put up..

Just call me Linda please, everyone does..

Hello Linda, very different, no?

It's not so much the words themselves and what they mean, but some of the accents are so strong that they are difficult to understand when spoken to you.

I live in the countryside and my home is mainly surrounded by farms. Famring folk are the single most difficult people to understand. The village I live in there seems to be some kind of 40 year time barrier before you pick the accent.

By the way call me Gez, most people do. My name is Gerard not Gerlad, but it's no problem, it's a common mistake as my name is not too common here. I have been called much worse in my time

Oh, Yes so very different! I'm sooo sorry about the name Gerard! Please forgive me.

I was just reading more of them. The meaning is so different. Like on your one post you said you were gonna TEEM some ale..Well that means Pour? Correct..I would never remember to say that. There are soo many different ones. But, like you were raised with them like we are raised in our country but Tx has it own pronunction of different words too. We do have our own language but just no dictionary for it... ..WE just make it up as we go!..

Well, there's one thing I love to do on a weekend, and that watch some British comedies! Not all of them are about men dressing up in womens clothing and making prude sexual comments (but some are).

Keeping up appearances was a classic, I can't believe how old it is now.

Check out the BBC website comedy archive, most of the best British comedies were made by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/archive/index.shtml

My favourite oldies are

Dad's Army
Allo Allo
Fawlty Towers
Are you being served
Vicar of Dibley
Father Ted
Rab C Nesbit
Blackadder
Red Dwarf
Last of the summer wine
Open all hours (filmed in the next town over from me)

There are loads more, all I watch are comedies really. There are some great US shows. My favourite at the minute is Curb your enthusiasm.

I love the cold, and I love the snow. I am not a fan of hot weather to be honest! I recon it would be too hot in Texas for me