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Thread #25338 Message #302061
Posted By: Steve Parkes
21-Sep-00 - 03:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mangling the English Language, Vol. II
Subject: RE: BS: Mangling the English Language, Vol. II
Oh honestly, Roger!! Noddy Holder used to live round the corner from me - literally: I lived in Newton Road and he lived in Stephenson Avenue on the Beechdale (his mom still lives there). There is no way even a Brummie loike yo' could turn "tay" into "tie"! It might have worked with one of them southern bands ...
Any road, pronuncation, when it's the product of accent, is not mangling the language; if it was good enough for Chaucer and it was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for Parkes!
Steve (Parkes, just in case you were wondering!)
That goes for double negatives, too - Will didn't hesitate to use 'em, and neither shall I. The French do it all the time: "je ne sais pas". Not that that's any recommendation!!