Complaining about South sea names is a bit like t'pot calling t'kettle.

They don't have owt like tough-though-through-thorough-thought-cough.

Sure, their alphabet's not the same - g pronouned ng, wh pronounced f, for instance - but that's all the time. They don't have 27 different ways of pronouncing the same group of letters like we do.

Just pronounce the letters as they come Uh-ah-ee-s-eh-l-eh.

Blimey it's going to take me a long time to decipher that one.

Back in a few days.

Mind you just switched ITV on, some spare part called Strachan? Now Griff was easier to understand.

Bless me - a few days to pronounce seven sounds !!



Education in Halifax not what I thought it was.

I think this is what threw me,

You said "They don't have owt like tough-though-through-thorough-thought-cough" ?

Couldn't work out who he was or who he played for.

Besides you started two words with 't, that's pure Yorkshire, of which Sheffield int , ain't or 'tisn't

Interesting views - though it was t' - not 't. Completely different.