English - variations on an original theme
I noticed one ward at my hospital in Scotland had people who looked completely healthy. "Psst," I said to the first guy, "why are you here?""Fair fa your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin race,
Aboon them a ye take yer place, Painch, tripe or thairm, As langs my
airm."
Well, I understood him, just like you did, but what? I looked at the next guy
and he shook his head and said "Wee sleekit, cowerin, timrous beasty, O the panic in thy breasty,
Thou needna start awa sae hastie, wi bickering brattle."
That explained it. The serious Burns unit.
Maybe not all of you understood all of the Burns quotes. Local words and local accents can change English almost into another language. Try me on a sentence in your local version.
I'm well primed. I have lots of coffee.
Comments (36)
I didn't realize there was a Yorkshire down under
Oh aye, the Glesca lot are a law unto themselves.
Coz thas reet funI
Guess not many mountain people here, though. Or Blue already scared them off with his street rap.
Time for more
They keep themselves to themselves hence the very small gene pool
'-)
He said he wouldn't mind but he'd been going to get a bazzer cos he'd seen a quare fine feen and now she'd be jagging another langer.
Nice to hear.
You are running a Hospital.
You are a Doc.
Take Care.
Pano, that was a street. I do listen.
I look clear-eyed and boyish this morning.
And the back of my neck is wrinkling nicely ....
He said he wouldn't mind but he'd been going to get a bazzer cos he'd seen a quare fine feen and now she'd be jagging another langer.
A lady,and her children from the northside of Cork City, were strolling up St.Patrick's Street to buy pig's trotters for the dinner, when they met a man who said he had been to the hospital because a wasp had stung him when he was walking over Daly's Bridge.
He said that was enough of an inconvenience in itself, but he had been planning on getting a haircut to impress a very attractive woman he had met, and now he had missed a chance and she would be out with another 'gentleman '
Or at least, a version of English that you would mostly understand
Kilkenny is grand.
For Nurthumberland we roll our r,s
Put your mouth round that