On 2013-10-16 19:40:35 +0100, Pam Moore said:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:25:02 +0100, David Hill
wrote:
Thank you David, for giving me that opportunity! Nah then: wheer did ah
put me pipe? It wer' round ere some wheer....
J.
As the'd say round here
"It's over by there"
On this side of the Bris'l Channel they'd say "by yerrr", never
"here".
Pam in Bristol
But that's not 'grammar' but 'English as she is spoke'! When my
stepson was working for a local farmer some miles away, his parents
drove down to visit him for the first time. As they were leaving the
farmer said "Now you know where he be to". I'm afraid those delightful
and particularly local forms of our language are fading into obliving,
partly because of television and partly because of people moving around
the country for work reasons. But surely that's dialect, which obeys
no rules at all, rather than grammar?
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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