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From: Phil Warn <>
Subject: Re: [B&D] Bristol Accent
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:19:38 +0000
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JJ,

O R *could* stand for other things too.

I attended a HOTS (History of Tetbury Society)
Meeting and the speaker was discussing the
Gloucestershire accent vis a vis the Wilts one
and I, in the question time, after, referred to
the Welsh habit of adding "look you!" at the end of censuses.

Am I right in thinking that the Bristolian accent
differs from the Gloucrestershire one?

The Oxford accent differs markedly from the Oxfordshire one.

O R could stand for Orfully Rrough of course! <vbg>

Phil
Diving for cover!At 19:13 12/03/2008, Josephine Jeremiah wrote:
>At one of these events a person, whom I'd never met and whom I never saw
>again, said to me (rather cruelly, I thought later), ' Oh, you have an O R
>accent.'

Phil Warn ô¿ô
Genealogists do it backwards
Family Historians take all steps
"The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722"
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