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Thread #88517   Message #1660874
Posted By: Jeanie
03-Feb-06 - 05:22 AM
Thread Name: Jimmyt English Wannabee
Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
"Received Pronunciation" eh, old chap ? i.e. "talking proper". I would say you are now well on the way to earning the letters Hon. Brit. after your name, especially seeing as how you've already successfully mastered the Cockney rhyming slang and general rabbitin, me ol' china. (He's been taking secret private online lessons from me these past few years, and has already earned The Order of the Diamond Geezer).

Break a leg, Inspector Hubbard !

(I'm also venturing into strange and foreign linguistic territory: rehearsing a John Godber play, "Lucky Sods", set in Darkest Yorkshire, the place we southerners fear to tread, ay lad.)

- jeanie