How hard to find differences when the DNA is pretty much the same? I heard somewhere that the planting of marigolds was at one time considered to be a political / religious act.
It's less to do with DNA @B3 and more to do with brain washing from an early age where children are taught the same prejudices and behaviours as their parents.
Having been brought up mainly in the NW by parents of NE extraction but with mongrel British genetic mixes I think a scone is pronounced like gone and hotel has an aitch at the beginning.
@tui34 I have been told that my written French is more correct than many native speakers but I do know that when I speak it I make grammatical mistakes but am understood and the fact that I make the effort means my franglais is not only forgiven but found amusing and occasionally adopted.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I always think that saying hotel without the h is an affectation. There quite a few words borrowed from French or Italian that would make you ( one) sound like a prat if pronounced correctly.
Scon, Haitch ( ) - Northern Lancastrian. Then again we have dinner at midday & tea as the evening meal, supper is a bag 'o' chips or a kebab when the pubs shut. Uncouth or what?
When I was at home, breakfast (if I was lucky), dinner and tea. Sunday was a special day so we had supper, bread and dripping with brown bits if I got to it first. Five star luxury in our house you know.
It not being used where it should be, or being used where it shouldn't be, drives me nuts. My nephew's wife is Hannah not 'annah'. Back in the olden days, the tea trolley used to come round the offices every day. The lady with that was a master, or should the be mistress, of the art. One of her classics - "Oh (H)'amish, would you like a (H)apple today or a (H)orange)" I swear that is true.
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Having been brought up mainly in the NW by parents of NE extraction but with mongrel British genetic mixes I think a scone is pronounced like gone and hotel has an aitch at the beginning.
@tui34 I have been told that my written French is more correct than many native speakers but I do know that when I speak it I make grammatical mistakes but am understood and the fact that I make the effort means my franglais is not only forgiven but found amusing and occasionally adopted.
Breakfast .Dinner. Tea.
I did 2 years of Greek at school, and it was definitely oh-MY-cron then. I'm tending to go with the crowd now on that one though.
Scon, aitch, breakfast, dinner, tea. No supper. Went to bed with a hot water bottle instead...