Know your British accents

Know your British accents. In particular, glory in the in the glottalised consonants of the Geordie dialect.

A Geordie customer walks into a barber's shop:

Geordie customer: "I'd like a perm please."
Barber: "I wandered lonely as a cloud..."

Geordie customer: "I'd like it curled please."
The barber opens the window.

Let this mouse explain why in the Geordie dialect "man" can mean a man or a woman.

Comments

[brian]

Great post. It reminds me of the book "Albion's Seed" by David Hackett Fischer. In his comments on the regional folkways of four seminal British-American cultures, Hackett Fischer touches upon the British origins of several regional accents. Apparently, my Philadelphia dialect has its origins in the speech of the North Midlands/Pennines.

As New Yorkers say, "Who knew?"