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Thread #10188   Message #70111
Posted By: Steve Parkes
12-Apr-99 - 03:50 AM
Thread Name: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
No, Pete - that's why I asked!

There's a town in Staffordshire, just up the road from me, called Rugeley. People who were brought up there pronounce it Rudgelee, but outsiders and incomers call it as if it were Fench, to rhyme with rouge.

Dr John: abverbs?! Like f*ckly or f*ckingly? The mind boggles!

Steve