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Tags: foundspeech
Date: 11 August 2008 11:20:11
Overheard on a train passing Southwark Cathedral:
Girl: "Look at that church!"
Boy: "That ain't a church, its got a flag on it."
Bother and sister aged about seven or eight being taken on day trip to London.
Two slightly older children previously overheard on the same train line at about the same place going the other way. They had seen the film of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The boy had a theory that a "faun" was called that because like a rose with thorns they were beautiful above but ugly below. For him the words "faun" and "thorn" were homophones, exactly alike, identical sounds. From their parents conversation they seem to be from well-educated prosperous middle-class Jewish families.
Non-rhoticism really has arrived. For us south-eastern English, "R" is a vowel :-)