You're right Andrew. I'd seen whole ox tongues on the butcher's slab (in the fifties) but I didn't realise that the human tongue was so enormous.
Re accents, my husband only yesterday entered our village shop (we were properly masked) and bellowed, "Ahrrr yew orrlroit mbor?". (How are you mate?) He rolls his rrs as in French, implodes the letter 'b' as in Malinke/Bambara and incorporates the Norfolk 'oi' for 'i'. The shop owners always fall about laughing.