Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm an American who grew up watching plenty of BBC, and I run > into afew native Londoners whom I have hard time understanding. > I don't ever remember having troubly understanding people > outside the city.
But have you encountered regional dialects? - e.g. from the north of the country, where you get both a strong accent, very different from London speech, and the use of different words. For example, folk in parts of the north-east will say "canny" instead of "careful", "gannin" instead of "going", "bonny lass" instead of "pretty girl". The question "Do you know what I mean?" expressed phonetically in Geordie (one of the north-eastern dialects) becomes "Ya knaa what ah mean, leik?" Nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
