More on the Way we Speak Now

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Date: 29 August 2008 19:47:53

Overheard in a pub toilet:

"Daddy, what does that word say?"
"It says 'Lavatories'"
"Why does it say 'Lavatories'?"
"Its another word fro 'toilets'"

(Middle-english middle-class RP accents all round)

Heard at a talk about Welshness at Greenbelt:

"[such-and-such a federation of united chapels] have recently employed a youth officer, and that would be me"

[No idea if it is a very Welsh way of saying "I am the youth officer" but it struck me as a very odd way of saying it]