Ginny [they/she]

Bolton. Bury. Wigan. Perhaps other parts of Lancashire, also.

The single syllable words “four” and “hour” are actually the two syllable words “fohwer” and “ower”.

The words “anything” and “nothing” are pronounced “owt” and “nowt”.

The word “the” is not pronounced “t’”, it is simply replaced with an unvoiced glottal stop. The word “t’” is thus, actually, short for “to the”.

E.g.

Goin’ t’ shop. Wan’ owt?

means

I’m going to the shop. Do you want anything?

We also pronounce “bus” as “buzz”, too.

We also use “was” and “were” the wrong way round and say “pants” instead of “trousers”. The rest of the country seems unaware of that last one, and will accuse you of talking American.

If I had a penny for every time I heard about new advancements about to revolutionise solar panel technology, I’d have glazed the bloody Sahara with them by now.

So no.

If you’re inclined to be charitable, I believe the capitalist-brained reasoning goes something like:

These grocery stores will inevitably run at a loss and/or need to be subsidised - costing the taxpayers money - because the state couldn’t possibly run them as efficiently as a private enterprise competing in the free market.

(Not saying I agree.)

Why does anyone get to have nuclear weapons?

Because once you have them, who’s going to try to take them away?

I’d warn you that it’s a pretty horny film, but Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (by Clive Barker /j) was also very horny, so that may not be an issue.

A fellow Plan 9 enjoyer?

Jonathan Harker proves that he can’t do accent work, but he did do some decent acting in The Devil’s Advocate.

Yew-ess-ay-ian doesn’t flow like yew-ess-ian.

When I microwave something I generally say that I’m microwaving it.

They better not remove “I am fond of pigs”.