And I remember our village primary school teacher trying in vain to explain the purpose of the accent over the second e of Nescafé when she heard me being laughed at for not saying ‘Nescaff’ like the other children.
Then the tv ads appeared and I was vindicated. 😇
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I remember being ridiculed by kids in French classes, aged 12, for speaking with a French accent, because my family are French. How they hooted. How confused was I.
I remember being ridiculed by kids in French classes, aged 12, for speaking with a French accent, because my family are French. How they hooted. How confused was I.
I remember my French teacher (who wasn't French, but was a rather posh lady) getting very upset about us speaking French, or trying to, with Yorkshire accents. And apparently the assessor for our German oral at O level said that we all had dreadfully common accents - turns out that was because our teaching assistant that year had been from somewhere with that accent and we all picked it up (I think she was Austrian, but might have been Bavarian).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I say chuna and chuba. Do you say tiu-na and ch-i -u-ba? But then I say spee shees. Spee sees sounds grating to my ears. Don't get me started on lichen.
Shed for me. And aitch. Apparently everyone who learned French at my school when I did has a Breton accent because that's where our French teacher learned. I guess if the teacher is not a native speaker of the language they teach (or even if they are), accidentally picking up a regional accent is pretty common. Our German teacher was German, no idea where from. Our Latin teacher was Welsh, though. Goodness knows how that works but I probably won't meet a Roman so I'm not too worried about being ridiculed for that.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I remember my French teacher (who wasn't French, but was a rather posh lady) getting very upset about us speaking French, or trying to, with Yorkshire accents. And apparently the assessor for our German oral at O level said that we all had dreadfully common accents - turns out that was because our teaching assistant that year had been from somewhere with that accent and we all picked it up (I think she was Austrian, but might have been Bavarian).
Our German teacher was German, no idea where from.
Our Latin teacher was Welsh, though. Goodness knows how that works but I probably won't meet a Roman so I'm not too worried about being ridiculed for that.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”