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Ocelot Spleens 22 Jan 6:03pm, 22 Jan 2025 40,290 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens I am going out on a limb and putting an English one in, after all English is foreign to some people. Apricity. It was just on the radio. Warm winter sunshine, as in Apricots.
JamieKai chameleon 22 Jan 6:32pm, 22 Jan 2025 20,045 posts	Quote Pin JamieKai chameleon Oh, I like that. I like the Polish Bee, too. I love this thread.
jennywren 22 Jan 6:52pm, 22 Jan 2025 17,968 posts	Quote Pin jennywren @JamieKai sbwriel is pronounced phonetically, like a lot of Welsh. Although you do need to know that ‘w’ is an ‘oo’ sound rather than a wuh
JamieKai chameleon 22 Jan 7:05pm, 22 Jan 2025 20,048 posts	Quote Pin JamieKai chameleon Good to know So, sboo-ree-ell?
jennywren 22 Jan 7:36pm, 22 Jan 2025 17,969 posts	Quote Pin jennywren Yep
HazelnutCH 23 Jan 8:48am, 23 Jan 2025 550 posts	Quote Pin HazelnutCH Some UK dialects can sound pretty foreign depending where you come from. I got a bit of a shock in Newcastle (I'm from Northamptonshire) and I had a girl in my class at school from Liverpool. Stottie (useful thing to make sandwiches with), ate many of these in Newcastle
Big_G 23 Jan 9:15am, 23 Jan 2025 4,452 posts	Quote Pin Big_G I was born in Devon, although haven’t got an accent. When I moved away to Suffolk for work, I got out to fill the car up at a garage, and the local person behind the till may as well have been talking a foreign language! It was a real shock at the time A few hours drive up the road from what was ‘normal’ for me, got out, spoke to my first local and thought ‘what on earth are they saying?!’ Well, that was a shock, but also the 3 or 4 burned out cars on the A12 were as well, but I guess that’s another story
Muttley 23 Jan 10:21am, 23 Jan 2025 3,733 posts	Quote Pin Muttley The first time I encountered scouse, geordie, brummie, glaswegian, and other accents was when I left Cornwall at 18 to join the RAF and do my recruit training. It was quite a shock initially but understanding them became easier over time. There was only one accent I could not decipher -- broad Belfast. We had a cleaning lady once in the barrack block and she was lovely and I really wanted to understand what she was saying. But it might as well as been in a foreign language.
jennywren 23 Jan 10:48am, 23 Jan 2025 17,970 posts	Quote Pin jennywren I struggle with Glaswegian
fetcheveryone 24 Jan 6:27am, 24 Jan 2025 31,518 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone JamieKai chameleon wrote:How's that pronounced? sbwriel = sb is like the 'sp' of 'spoon' but a little bit more like a 'b' than a 'p' w is like the 'oo' in hook (not the northern 'hooooook', the other one) ri is like the first part of 'real' el is like the first part of 'element' forvo.com