Topic: Steven for sale on E-Bay

[Nemesis]

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According to the auction the-not-really-a-Dalek-honest-guv looks like the evil twin of the ones on Dr Who. You can sit inside it and wheel yourself around with your feet. Steven comes with a voice modulator so that you can shout 'exterminate' at the neighbour’s cat and declare yourself, against all the odds, to be a superior being. There's also plenty of room for upgrades. Steven could have, for example, a fire extinguisher fitted to his gun making him and his pilot excellent candidates for gimmicky fireman.

Not a real robot and not our Stephen of course. 

[Sirgod]

LOL, you know I had to look. 

Stephen

[Nemesis]

LOL, you know I had to look. 

Stephen

Sure did.  Was wondering how long it would take. 

[Capt. Mike]

But they spelled his name incorrectly...

Mike

[Sirgod]

But they spelled his name incorrectly...

Mike

Yeah! thanks Michael. 

Stephen

[Nemesis]

But they spelled his name incorrectly...

Mike

Don't blame them.  Its his parents fault for being unable to spell Steven correctly. 

[Just plain old Punisher]

But they spelled his name incorrectly...

Mike

Don't blame them.  Its his parents fault for being unable to spell Steven correctly. 

Maybe they're brittish, they like to stick meaningless letters in words. Like Colour.

[Capt. Mike]

Or just can't spell correctly, like theatre

Mike

[dragoon]

But they spelled his name incorrectly...

Mike

Don't blame them.  Its his parents fault for being unable to spell Steven correctly. 

Maybe they're brittish, they like to stick meaningless letters in words. Like Colour.

My brothers name is Steven, and spelled with a 'V'. So no useless letters there... mind you, we're a house of Welsh speakers, and anyone who doesn't speak the language, seems to think it's all uesless letters 

[Capt. Mike]

So, in Welsh, it's spelled Cymru, but pronounced Coom-ree?  and an LL is pronounced FL?

We always loved putting our Welsh RAF guys on the voice orderwire to talk to other terminals..almost English but not quite 


Mike (I enjoyed touring Wales, and the beer was great)

[dragoon]

So, in Welsh, it's spelled Cymru, but pronounced Coom-ree?  and an LL is pronounced FL?

We always loved putting our Welsh RAF guys on the voice orderwire to talk to other terminals..almost English but not quite 


Mike (I enjoyed touring Wales, and the beer was great)

It's sounds more like come-ree
I can't really describe the LL sound.
To make the sound you need to sort of position your tongue kind of like the sides touch the upper back teeth, and the front sits  on the roof of the mouth behind you upper front teeth, and then sort of lightly let air out of your mouth, and allow it to make  noise. That's the best I can describe it 

However..... as with all things, there is the accent to consider. My accent is a south west accent, with a hint of swansea valleys, and as such my Welsh usage is somewhat different to say cardiff to the east or Bangor to the north. So my "LL" may be sounded slightly different.

When you were down in Wales did you get to try some of the Ffelinfoal ales or SA Brains?
The UK is seeing a huge increase of Real Ales and traditional, small brewery booze lately... seems the UK is finally starting to turn from alcopops and vodka drinks finally.

[Capt. Mike]

The Ffelinfoal ales sounds familiar, but it was 20 years ago...I did (and still do) favor the smaller "home" brews, a favorite was Hook Norton bitter, and this ale called Old Farmer Brown brewed at a pub called the Trigger Pond.  2 pints of that, and vowels became optional   

I hope to get back over to the UK sometime, grandchildren permitting


Have a great day, it's off to work for me


Mike

[Dracho]

What is astounding to the American mind is that a place as small as Britain (relatively speaking), could have enough geographic isolation to develop regional accents and dialects.

We think of Britain as a rather small place geographically, though I guess it's about 1200 miles x 350 miles, or there about.  So in comparison, about the size of North Carolina and Tennessee dropped end-to-end, with Virginia still stuck to NC.

[dragoon]

What is astounding to the American mind is that a place as small as Britain (relatively speaking), could have enough geographic isolation to develop regional accents and dialects.

We think of Britain as a rather small place geographically, though I guess it's about 1200 miles x 350 miles, or there about.  So in comparison, about the size of North Carolina and Tennessee dropped end-to-end, with Virginia still stuck to NC.

It's not just regional accents and dialects, it has about 5 seperate native langauges. That's off the top of my head, and not including English.

Welsh
Cornish
Breton of Northern France ( off shoot of settlers from the above )
Cumbric ( essentially extinct )

The above are called 'British' languages

Irish
Scots
Scottish gaelic
Ulster Scots
Manx
And an odd native one from the area of Glasgow

These are called Gaelic

Then there is English.
As a point of reference, the English have only called themselves British for about 200 years, before that British was for anyone who was a native of non English origin.