A sweet little girl asked me the other day if I spoke English. I asked her what language she thought I spoke and she replied that it was Australian. I asked her then whether she spoke Australian and she said of course that she didn't. How come you can understand me then was the obvious response? That got her thinking and lead to a discussion about accents. We all decided that we could understand each other easily and that no-one understood the Irish! (there was an Irish student teacher at the school at the time)
There are a couple of very interesting Yorkshire...isms eg when greeting someone you say: "hi ya, yor-right" which translates to : "hi, how are you" not "hi, are you all right?" as I first thought, thinking that I must have looked pretty awful. If you say "G'day" they just laugh! The word "was" doesn't exist, replaced by "were" for every occasion eg "when I were in town..." The definite article "the " doesn't exist eg "When we were at (the)pub yesterday..." You don't feel ill, sick or crook...you feel "poorly" and you don't vacuum the carpet, you "hoover" it. Oh yes and footabll is soccer not rugby league or union and deginitely not AFL!
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