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MADvent 2013 - 25 days of prizes and free sweets for all entrants!


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Brilliant video - glad time sorted itself out....

Can we have a tour of the tree next time as I couldn't see my photoboothed, santa hatted selfie on there! Ta :)

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I vote the next video should be recorded in Sheffieldish, there will probably only be 2 or 3 of us that will understand...but its a "made in sheffield" thing
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Brilliant video - glad time sorted itself out....

Can we have a tour of the tree next time as I couldn't see my photoboothed, santa hatted selfie on there! Ta :)

We have a little pile of as yet unscissored MADvent decorations waiting to be prepared for the tree, but this December refuses to calm down and go quiet enough for us to get around to it. Don't worry, I'll make sure they're up tomorrow.

 

Al

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I vote the next video should be recorded in Sheffieldish, there will probably only be 2 or 3 of us that will understand...but its a "made in sheffield" thing

 

Ah, ah fink tha's a rate gud idea tha's come outa tha noggin.

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I vote the next video should be recorded in Sheffieldish, there will probably only be 2 or 3 of us that will understand...but its a "made in sheffield" thing

 

Did you ever hear the Radio 4 documentary 'The 'arse that Jack built'?

 

Ian McMillan goes on a quest to find one of Britain's strangest linguistic features. Somewhere between Sheffield and Chesterfield, people stop saying house and say something that sounds a lot more like 'arse. It's an isogloss, a kind of linguistic boundary line where accent and dialect changes. Ian calls it the house / arse interface, and with his friend the musician Ray Hearne and linguist Kate Burland in tow, he sets out to track it down. But can it really be as simple as crossing a line on a map?[/Quote]

 

Genius. Still available to listen online. :D

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Between Sheffield and Chesterfield = Exactly where I live. Doesn't sound like arse though more like Ahse.

 

Get thi sen in ahse.

 

I live on't border between Shefyuld and 'tarn (Barnsley) and its pronounced "owse" rarnd 'ere

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Between Sheffield and Chesterfield = Exactly where I live. Doesn't sound like arse though more like Ahse.

 

Get thi sen in ahse.

 

True, but arse has more of the comedic effect.

 

(And in Liverpool, we pronounce 'arse' as 'ahse'.)

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I vote the next video should be recorded in Sheffieldish, there will probably only be 2 or 3 of us that will understand...but its a "made in sheffield" thing

 

My Dutch son-in-law now lives in Sheffield, and has incorporated a number of Sheffield/yorkshire sayings into his speech. I have never heard anything funnier that "I'm right chuffed about that" said in a Dutch accent.

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My Dutch son-in-law now lives in Sheffield, and has incorporated a number of Sheffield/yorkshire sayings into his speech. I have never heard anything funnier that "I'm right chuffed about that" said in a Dutch accent.

 

It goes to prove how quickly colloquial sayings are picked up

 

It also sounds similar to how the Chinese university students start to speak, as they pick up sheffield-ish whilst learning english, being asked "excuse me love where is..." in a strong chinese accent nearly made me cry with laughter.

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Oh? Is he giving away free stuff too? :p

 

Well voting for him ends at 12:00, and the video of free stuff here normally appears just after 12:00, so we can hang around there for now just in case then come back here in time for chocolates and biscuits :)

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