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Date: 29 October 2011 01:15:22
So I'm in the pub and talking to V our resident Texan about accents. And this black bloke from Deptford that I don't know says he is originally from Queens, New York. But his accent is totally local, so I say he sounds more like Queen's Park than Queens, A lucky phrase - it turns out that he was in fact brought up in Brighton and lived near Queen's Park. His parents moved there from America when he was a kid and he lived just off Southover Street for years. Supported the Albion, He's a couple of years older than me so we were both in Brighton in the 60s, 70s and early 80s. We remember some of the same places and pubs. I probably put leaflets through their door in election campaigns.
Weird.
But proud to be a Brightonian! (A word we both knew but the Londoners around us didn't recognise - neither does this spell-checker)