Quote: Oldrocker @ August 18 2013, 1:02 AM BSTSo you use the 'go back to where I started from.'
Bill Bryson reckons it's serious when you then can't remember where you started from!
I did do that on one occasion. I remembered where I started from but going back didn't help.
I took a pill while having a chat to myself about something, and then 2 seconds later couldn't remember if I'd taken it or not.
Quote: keewik @ August 18 2013, 12:28 AM BSTIdiots who pronounce 'th' as 'f'.
Not my thault I'm commone
Quote: Tursiops @ August 18 2013, 12:41 AM BSTSmartarses who ask me if I spell my name with one f or two.
I have learnt how to form the two sounds but I honestly struggle to hear the difference, and still occasionally lapse. It was bit of bugger growing up, what with having a 'th' in both my Christian name and my surname.
I can't hear the difference in other people either. So the surprising amount of people who try to 'correct' my accent by doing a gargoyle impression just look silly.
Now I come to think of it, are gargoyles gargoyles rather than grotesques because they gargle?
People who pronounce Berkshire as Berk-shire and not Bark-shire.
Quote: Ben @ August 18 2013, 11:09 AM BSTPeople who pronounce Berkshire as Berk-shire and not Bark-shire.
Hey,I do that I can't help it.
It's because of all that crystal meth you're doing
I'm surprised you can pronounce
"another rock please"
Quote: sootyj @ August 18 2013, 11:12 AM BSTIt's because of all that crystal meth you're doing
I'm surprised you can pronounce
"another rock please"
I have no idea what you're talking about. 
Quote: AJGO @ August 18 2013, 11:04 AM BST
I can't hear the difference in other people either. So the surprising amount of people who try to 'correct' my accent by doing a gargoyle impression just look silly.
Now I come to think of it, are gargoyles gargoyles rather than grotesques because they gargle?
That was a gargoyle, still all those Japanese tourists photographing you at St Pauls seemed to enjoy the show.
Quote: David Smith @ August 18 2013, 11:10 AM BSTHey,I do that I can't help it.
What do you mean you can't help it? Are you incapable of pronouncing the 'ar' sound?
Quote: David Smith @ August 18 2013, 11:13 AM BSTI have no idea what you're talking about.
Memory loss is quite common, as is confusion with serious meth addiction.
Quote: Ben @ August 18 2013, 11:14 AM BSTWhat do you mean you can't help it? Are you incapable of pronouncing the 'ar' sound?
Yep. That's that the way I am.
Quote: sootyj @ August 18 2013, 11:14 AM BSTMemory loss is quite common, as is confusion with serious meth addiction.
I have a good memory ta very much.
Quote: David Smith @ August 18 2013, 11:15 AM BSTYep. That's that the way I am.
Weally?
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ August 18 2013, 11:17 AM BSTWeally?
If they want people to say it properly, they should spell it properly. 
I do always get the word/place Derby wrong. Is it pronounced darby or derby?
Quote: zooo @ August 18 2013, 12:18 PM BSTIf they want people to say it properly, they should spell it properly.
I do always get the word/place Derby wrong. Is it pronounced darby or derby?
Darby.
But it's a bad bad place.
Although I live down south now, I have retained a lot of my Midlands accent. In particular, I insist of pronouncing words like "bath" "grass" "path" correctly. Not barth, grarss and parth.
Silly Southerners.