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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

389.0. "Hello to all thaart" by WELSWS::MANNION (Farewell Welfare, Pt. 3) Fri Jul 24 1987 08:03

    I note with regret the passing of the short "a" in BBC media-speak.
    
    This week has seen/heard
    
    	Indiaarna
    	Alabaarma
    	Aar la (as in a la BBC-speak)
    and the winner in this week's search for the longest "a"
    	plaaarque
    
    As a Lancastrian I find this painful!
    
    Phillip
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389.1too bad, but. . .WEBSTR::RANDALLI'm no ladyFri Jul 24 1987 09:2310
    You have my condolences.
    
    However, as a boahn and raised Montanahn, Ah don't think Ah quaht
    undahstahnd youah problem.
    
    Montanahns don't stick in extra 'r's, though.  [We just grind out the
    ones that are they-ahr already.]  Maybe the r's are the root of your
    pain? 
    
    --bonnie 
389.2Let's get to the bottom of this!WELSWS::MANNIONFarewell Welfare, Pt. 3Fri Jul 24 1987 09:484
    Thanks for analysing the problem, Bonnie, but I'm told I have a cute
    arse, or perhaps it was acute r's.
    
    Phillip
389.3Surrey seems to be the hardest wordCHIC::BELLDavid Bell Service Technology @VBOTue Jul 28 1987 13:5413
    It is not surprising, if not how could you tell 'a' from 'u', south
    of Watford ?
    
    Reminds me of my brother's game (he lives in Redhill, but he's working
    on it) :
    
    			Where do you come from ?
    
    			Surrey ...
    
    			No need to apologise ..........

    
389.4My Favo(u)riteINK::GRACESink the deBraak!Wed Jul 29 1987 11:245
    Re .2
    
    Gee, any pictures you can send me??
    
    Mary
389.5okay yaaahCOMICS::KEYOn the verge of indecisionMon Aug 17 1987 09:246
    How a Laarncaarstrian can object to anyone else's accent is beyond
    me
    
    eeeeeh bah gooom lad!
    
    Andy (Wessex and proud of it) :-)
389.6Graaaas, Baaath, Wraaaath.WELSWS::TREVENNOR1000111 1001001 1000111 1001111Mon Aug 17 1987 13:257
    	It always suprises me that people who talk with one accent sing
    with another. Eg, southern English folks singing with flat A's.
    Strange.
    
    Alan T.
    
389.7The Rine in Spine stys minely...COMICS::KEYOn the verge of indecisionMon Aug 17 1987 14:1311
    .6: 
        with another. Eg, southern English folks singing with flat A's.
							      ^^^^^^^^
    You mean we're out of tune?
    
    I suspect you mean in popular music here - this is heavily influenced
    by Americans (sigh). Strangely, the singer in Marillion ("Fish")
    sings with a pronounced southern English accent but speaks broad
    Glaswegian (I think it's Glaswegian).
    
    Andy
389.8B#REGENT::EPSTEINBruce EpsteinMon Aug 17 1987 18:001
    How would you sing without Ab?  Transpose everything to G#?
389.9Alan Trevennor? In Joyoflex? Gosh!WELSWS::MANNIONLegendary Lancashire HeroesTue Aug 18 1987 05:478
    And then there are those English chaps who sing Scottish or Irish
    songs in the appropriate accents, like I do, or Ewan MacColl who
    is scottish, speaks with an RP-ish accent (if such a thing is possible)
    and sings with all kinds of accents. 
    
    But he doesn't have long aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!
    
    Phillip
389.10<<PUN WARNING>>COMICS::KEYOn the verge of indecisionTue Aug 18 1987 10:216
    re: .8
    
    
    I used to sing in A flat but now I've moved to A house...
    
    Andy
389.11Like a dead man's heart monitorBAEDEV::RECKARDJon Reckard 264-7710Tue Aug 18 1987 12:585
    As the air was escaping from a hole in my tire, its tone was higher than
    a G, but not quite G#.  So ...


    My flat's A flat's flat.