09-11-2018, 17:06
I think it`s Stanley Unwin you`re thinking of, Dancing. He made a career out of talking gibberish - most of us are just amateurs - and always finished his sketches with "Goodlybyeloads" for goodbye and some other nonsense, as I recall. God, that`s going back a bit.
Apparently, all these accents are the leftovers from regional dialects that were, until relatively recently, mutually unintelligible. So, say, a peasant from Kent and one from Yorkshire - in the unlikely event of their meeting - wouldn`t have been able to understand a word each other said and it was only the coming of the railways that allowed most people to travel any distance that standardised the language. Amazing, isn`t it. Different cities in the UK even had their own time-zones before the railways arrived. And that`s only a couple of hundred years ago.
Apparently, all these accents are the leftovers from regional dialects that were, until relatively recently, mutually unintelligible. So, say, a peasant from Kent and one from Yorkshire - in the unlikely event of their meeting - wouldn`t have been able to understand a word each other said and it was only the coming of the railways that allowed most people to travel any distance that standardised the language. Amazing, isn`t it. Different cities in the UK even had their own time-zones before the railways arrived. And that`s only a couple of hundred years ago.