Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
You might very well say that. I couldn't possibly comment on that...


Which is famous catchphrase of an old BBC series. A bit akin to American phrases like 'Hasta la vista, baby!'
Which goes to show that the real difference is not in semantics or spelling, but in the use of language.
Ahh...good old Francis Urquhart. You don't get a better English name than that.

Although I was at school with a Farrington, a Carruthers, a Thompkinson and a Clive. Well not the last one, he was there 200 years earlier.

As someone who naturally pronunciates with 'flat' vowels, I have it on good authority that swearing in a Yorkshire/Manchester accent is very effective. Time to beat the whippet with me clogs.....