Girt Axpactations

Nahw, look hur. Vat’s all dis nahwnsense dat Hodgson garrl’s bin chopsin bout us Bermewjans needin allocution lassuns? Bye, dat makes me vext!

She axpact arrywun to tawk de same? Look at dem Limey byes an all tha diffrent vays of tawkin. Cawnt understann vat haaf dem is sayin either, cept dem Hull byes vot tawk like ve byes do anyvays (aint dat word?). She’s got some nerve sayin her vay of chopsin is more better den arrywun else’s!

You lot see vat um sayin?

Comments

[Stevie C on 12.10.04 at 07:58]

Phil, I really hate to be picky, but I think you spelt the UK city of 'ull wrong. The 'H' is invisible.

[Eve on 12.10.04 at 09:51]

Many Blacks want to speak differently and have come up with their own slang such as Ebonics (Ebony Phonics). I went to school in the US in the 40's and 50's and approximately 30% of my classmates were Black and I lived in Bermuda in the 60's. In neither place was "ask" pronounced "ax" back then. There is always the possibility that "ax" evolved in Bermuda and was brought back to the US by the Armed Forces. For all these educators to spend time on trying to find the origin of pronounciation "ax" in place of "ask" is ridiculous. Ax is here to stay so as much as it may grate on some peoples ears it "ain't" going away. Dr. Hodgson may want to be careful, she is starting to sound like Bill Cosby wanting Blacks to think about what they say and do.