When I was in top class at a Midlands junior school we stood at the front of the hall facing the rest of the school. We took it in turns to read the Lord's Prayer line by line with the school repeating each line.

Come my turn, with my Geordie accent, I said "Our Father which art in heaven" and there was absolute silence.

Many years later a pal asked if I had seen so-and-so. I hadn't. When I saw him again later I asked if he had found him yet. "No", he replied in his best Brummie accent, "he ay on the fowan!".

Judi's taught the puppy to obey several commands. I have to use her Brummie accent before he does anything I tell him...