08-11-2018, 17:48
When the waitress served us in Macon Georgia she asked if we wanted sauce (I think). She rattled off a list of sauces available ranch branch? cranch? blanche? which was as long as it was totally incomprehensible. When she stopped and looked at me enquiringly I made a noise that approximated to one of the sounds I imagined she'd uttered and she went off happily to return with something that accidentally quite suited our chosen dish.
To my ear people across the States can sound very different, but when you take the giant size of the US into account the vast differences here between lowland Scotland, Wales, Newcastle, Yorkshire, Rossendale, Merseyside, Norfolk, Devon, Cockney, Manc and Brum and BBC etc are astonishing. We even have different words, or sometimes the same words with different meanings ....... I'd steer well clear of us.
To my ear people across the States can sound very different, but when you take the giant size of the US into account the vast differences here between lowland Scotland, Wales, Newcastle, Yorkshire, Rossendale, Merseyside, Norfolk, Devon, Cockney, Manc and Brum and BBC etc are astonishing. We even have different words, or sometimes the same words with different meanings ....... I'd steer well clear of us.