As the bells of Bow are a bit hard to hear in Enfield (Middlesex) May, tell him he's a fraud!! Or as they would say up there Cockney my Arse!!!! Chris and Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "mayndave" <mayndave@bigpond.net.au> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [HantsLife] Accents David and I went to Hawaii 18 months ago and we had only to open our mouths and say 2 or 3 words and everyone was swanning at our feet saying "Oh wow, you're Australian?" Now that's really funny because David comes from Enfield, Middlesex and as far as I'm concerned sounds *totally* like a Pomme. He drops his t's and h's, sleeps on a 'pillar' at night and other such amazing inventions-of-speech. (He also excuses all of this by saying that he's a Cockney. I don't *think* so!!) He was 11 when he came to Oz and is 48 now. There's no hope is there? I'm an ex-Pom too, coming from Bucks at the age of 15, but few people pick up on it. All the best everyone, May LANCHBURY LANCHBURY WebSite... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lanchbury ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== Visit Where your ancestors lived..... SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages AND VI ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 11/01/2003