Re: If I was a millionaire.

**Celia Eriksson** Fri May 17, 2019 8:57 pm

Hi Marie!

I too find certain brogue quite hard to understand and some amusing. The far north Highland brogue, even when spoken slowly, then there is Northern Irish, certain counties such as Tyrone, when spoken quickly is very hard...

Then there is funny, Scouse is so funny to my ear and Black Country, Wolverhampton etc.... you must have heard of Noddy Holder, what an accent!!!! Norfolk can be quite funny too....

Here is the famous Singing Postman of Sheringham, Norfolk! Americans may be quite baffled by the accent and English used by an Englishman!

**MichaelaSJ** Fri May 17, 2019 10:06 pm

I read once that when French journalists interviewed the French Canadian Formula 1 driver Gilles Villeneuve they did it in English because they simply didn't understand his Quebecois.
I have to say the same problem with certain Irish accents not to say Scots accents which are nearly impenetrable.

I had a business partner who was from an aristocratic family in Bolivia. In fact, he was prior to moving to the States, the Minister of the Interior. Of course, he spoke Spanish as his first language.

I had several sub-contractors whose first language was Spanish but from Mexico and the American barrios. There was no way they understood each other.

Guest Fri May 17, 2019 11:45 pm

Tara wrote:
mariehart1 wrote:
I have to say the same problem with certain Irish accents not to say Scots accents which are nearly impenetrable.
Truth! I once ordered a sandwich in a restaurant in Edinburgh. What was given me was not what I thought I ordered, and yet the young man asserted that it was, even though we were using what sounded to me like completely different words. I finally gave up, and ate it. It was fine.

And that wsn't even deep in the Highlands!

Best one ever. One of the lads with us was a Dublin. Well we er

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