I have Kiwi cousins.  Bizarre doesn't even cover it, they do the freaky vowel thing like South Africans do.

On reflection, maybe I offended her with the Bethlehem reference. She might have had a bad experience there, like a ticket on her car or a row with customer services in M&S over some Jesus knickers or summat?

Blizzie - my heartfelt apologies for not believing that three blokes who were neither pissed nor tripping off their face followed some big massive feck off moving star for hundreds of miles.

I have to away to my pit. Has been a pleasure, syonara!

As an aside, 'R' is the only letter in the entire alphabet that the Irish ever get right. I'm English and I hate the fact we ignore the letter R in most words, and that we're shit at football, and cricket, and tennis. I'll get by though.

That's dead interesting EL because you'd think the NE had more in common with Scotland for most word pronunciation rather than with Southern English.

I cannot get my head round pronouncing an "r" in my accent though, people would think I'd lost my mind

But we are Vikings anyway and not Saxons

Ta ra hinny! xx

I was a little offended by the lack of presents, Karma.

Or, I may have forgotten to answer, for which I blame Leccy.

*pokes Blizzaey with pointy sticks*

I had to have one more peep

Blizzie - you don't want me for my presence, you want me for my presents

And night again chickens! xx

Night, knight, Karms!

For some reason I just cannot get my head around that spelling/pronunciation even if the hm is a v, the iao still look wrong to me! I keep having to write Keeva or my head will esplode

You called ?

Never met any Welsh people called Govan, but there is a place called St Govan's head...pronounced Guv-ann.  Apparently St Govan was an Irish saint who popped over for a holiday and got attacked by pirates

The Gaelic alphabet is different Saz....There are no JKQVXY or Z so a combination of other letters  are used for these ....You  have slender consonants and broad consonants depending on what vowel they are preceeded by broad vowels are aou slender are i and e...it's complicated I  know.

http://www.standingstones.com/gaelpron.html

It makes my head hurt