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From: Jaz Eilles <>
Subject: Re: [DUR-NBL] Dialectical Humour
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 20:58:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <009601c31365$5ca44540$02227ad5@zetnet.co.uk>


On 5/5/03 19:20, "Leslie Lowes" <> wrote:

> Slightly off genealogy, but Ian Clough wrote:
>
> As an almost Geordie transplanted into Aberdeenshire, I cause the local
> workmen much consternation with my ability to connect the Doric to Geordie.
>
> After a few years, I added ³Now.......² to my dictionary. A lovely pause
> before putting ones foot into it.
>
> Jazille Eilles ­ Sauchen and Chapel of Garioch ­ born in Hornsea, brought up
> in Whitley Bay now in Illinois
>
>


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