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Tomorrow, March 2nd, is National Speak-like-a-Person-from-Hull day. Don't bother googling it - just trust me - it is, really .... honest.

So, I thought why wait - let's start it off now.

Did you nur that Hull's traditional dish is 'Turd in the Hurl'?

Derver Searle is quite popular too.

Erver to you!

(Can never find a muse when one needs one.... )

There's nert funny abert Hull.

Any more of this blertunt persecursion and I'm gerring herme.

I'm nert jerking.

I'm relieved to herr it!

Ta se a tri a chlog ar maidin!

(Irish person from Hull)

Moglet wrote:(Can never find a muse when one needs one.... )

I had one. But I blocked up the hurl and he not been back since.

by Moglet on Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:46 am
by prospero on Mon Mar 02, 2009 4.25 am

I know I get up early, but may I ask when do you 2 sleep?
Of course its possible you dont live in Lincolnshire and Eire, thats just to confuse us.
You seem to be in a USA or South American time zone

I have visited framers in 82 countries.

Keith Hewitt wrote:by Moglet on Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:46 am

I know I get up early, but may I ask when do you 2 sleep?
Of course its possible you dont live in Lincolnshire and Eire, thats just to confuse us.
You seem to be in a USA or South American time zone

Talking of time zones, I posted it before 3am: do you still have BST in your forum settings, Keith? Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that quarter to three is still silly o'clock, mind...

I have visited framers in 82 countries.

Well, that was fun!

Anyway with the stuff they are bringing in we could all wish we spoke like someone from Hull in 5 years time - get a lerd, sorry, load, of THIS ....


The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

(Visions of Orwell spinning in his crypt, and Hitler floating around on a lava flow splitting his sides...)

Hull? Man, you guys are confusing the heck out of me and making my head hurt! It’s not fair.

I’m still struggling and trying to understand the strange, “proper English” that you people speak.

Narr then Bill. Hull is a big town on the north bank of the river Humber. It's 'proper' name is Kingston-upon-Hull. The Hull part is the river which flows though it into the Humber. Nobody calls it Kingston though. it's always refered to as Hull. People from Hull have a very particular way of pronoucing o and oo sounds.

Apart from a sodding great big bridge nearby that's about it.

Hence the expression - "I've been to Hull and back".

I rang a customer today to tell him his order was ready early - his name is Mr Searle.

I wondered, if I was a framer in Hull, and someone with the name 'Searle' rang me, how would I write it down -

Soul
Sole
Searle

???

Bill Henry wrote: I’m still struggling and trying to understand the strange, “proper English” that you people speak.

Try this one: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sound ... and/byker/

or if you're feeling adventurous there's this page: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sound ... variation/

prospero wrote:Narr then Bill. Hull is a big town on the north bank of the river Humber. It's 'proper' name is Kingston-upon-Hull. The Hull part is the river which flows though it into the Humber. Nobody calls it Kingston though. it's always refered to as Hull. People from Hull have a very particular way of pronoucing o and oo sounds.

Apart from a sodding great big bridge nearby that's about it.

Hence the expression - "I've been to Hull and back".

Having been to Hull on several occasions when I worked on a circus
the sentence " may you rot in Hull " was a fairly accurate description of the rather dirty odious rotten fish smelling town, I hope it has improved since

Never been to Grimsby then?

yep been there too but at least people were reasonably freindly

Actually, that's a very shrewd observation. Grimsby may not be the most picturesque place, but it's not as bad as it sounds. The best bit of Hull is the rerd that gerrs past it.