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denis567 | 21:11 Mon 09th Jul 2012 | ChatterBank
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I have brought this up before, but why do some people pronounce words like something, nothing and everything with a K at the end, rather than ing.
I was watching the first programme in the new series of 'Secret Dealers' today, and the announcer did this three times.
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^^ Lifted straight out of Scott Dobson's "Larn Yersel Geordie", if memory serves...
22:25 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Serrday night Glaswegian is very difficult to understand.
22:26 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Probably right, Mark. No doubt you often stop to think how wise you were to abandon your Celtic roots temporarily and flee to the shores of the Tyne to complete your education.
22:29 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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MarkRae, I liked your description of a spiral staircase but what if the person didn't know what spirally meant??.I would have to use my hands to describe one.
22:44 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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