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Oddities of the English language?

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Skimpot flyer said:
Was ‘she’ a one-off? :lol:
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Yes, I was a naive teenager who'd been set up - put it this way, I was off straight away, never to return. The lights were low, I was in a city I'd never been to before (Liverpool) and I couldn't believe the number of young 'blonde' females who appeared to be available. As they say, if something appears too good to be true.... :lol:
 
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Busaholic said:
Yes, I was a naive teenager who'd been set up - put it this way, I was off straight away, never to return. The lights were low, I was in a city I'd never been to before (Liverpool) and I couldn't believe the number of young 'blonde' females who appeared to be available. As they say, if something appears too good to be true.... :lol:
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Sounds like a cock and ball story to me.
 
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Regional variations can be confusing... when I moved to Taunton, new colleagues would say "oh, you just moved here... where's yours to?" which I couldn't even begin to comprehend... the clarification ("Your 'ouse, where's it TO?") didn't help either... My house doesn't go to anywhere! It took a few days for me to work out that Somerset folk, when asking for the location of anything, will stick a confusing and unnecessary preposition on the end!
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That's Somerset for you, lived in Yeovil for 3 years myself and got confused so many times, even though my maternal grandmother was from just outside Dorchester and having holidayed down there every summer as long as I could remember, I never had a problem with their dialect and colloquialisms.
Saying that, I'm sure the people of Somerset were even more confused at my north eastern accent than I was of theirs.
 
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