Joke on Liverpudlian speechways

[Wilson Gray]

Yep, that's right. I caught it only because I've seen "r" and "rr"
used as makeshift symbols for a flap before, e.g. in Henry Roth's
"Call It Sleep," in which he writes "Shut up!" as "Sharrup!" IIRC. And
then there's the BE-speaking character, "Bunifa," on MadTV, who uses
an actual trill in her catchphrase, "Whurr I do?! Whurr I do?!" i.e.
"What did I do [wrong]?!"

-Wilson

On 10/25/06, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
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> Ah, I finally got it!  I assume we're talking about flapping here?  Plus
> the choice of relative pronoun--right?
>
> At 03:10 PM 10/25/2006, you wrote:
> >Well, the second bloke is correct, you know, though I'd use the
> >spelling, "whuddle," for BE. ;-)
> >
> >-Wilson
> >
> >On 10/25/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >>I found this elsewhere.
> >>
> >>   It's a riot.
> >>
> >>   The following joke was recounted recently on Greater Manchester Radio
> >> (GMR)
> >>
> >>Two Liverpudlian young offenders are sharing a cell in Borstal. One is
> >>laboriously writing a letter. He looks up and says "Ay ! Ay ! How do you
> >>spell 'Daryl' ?"
> >>
> >>'What you wanna know for ?" says his cell mate. "We don't know any c***
> >>in 'ere called Daryl."
> >>
> >>The first one says, "'Cause I want me mam to send us a pair of jeans
> >>Daryl fit me."
> >>
> >>"You daft wassock!", says the second. "It's not, 'Daryl' fit me. It's
> >>'Worral'."
> >>
> >>   Ah, those Brits. What they do with our language !
> >>
> >>   JL
> >>
> >>
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--
Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep
a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.

--Sam Clemens

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