I always have an inner laugh when I’m behind someone in Subway or somewhere and they say “Can I get…?” I always want to say “No, don’t worry, they’ll get it for you”
Except for the furthest west part of Mercia, there wasn't much left for Angles until of course Aethelflaed & Hubby took most it all back again. It's a shame history does not tell the story of her she was fascinating and inspiring imho.
Ah yes, King Alfred's daughter no less. But then she was adopted by the Mercians as an Angle (Mercia did have some Saxons but still largely Angle) especially when she lost her hubby and would of become Queen (Vikings were scared of her) if she hadn't died from illness and what the Saxons did to her daughter was criminal imo.
Some of the 'mutual misunderstanding' is cultural rather than linguistic. A local resentment (outsiders here again!) can have much to do with it. As a Welsh speaker who lived a long time in England, my accent speaking English has led locals in Wales (more commonly in North Wales) to assume I am a 'Saeson" and switch to Welsh, in the belief that I would not understand. Understandable, if mildly irritating.
Glad this thread is alive and well. My thruppence worth:- When soldiers from the Lakedistrict were stationed in Iceland during the war, they found their dialect had words in common with Icelandic. Still a blasted Training Centre.
To reddy rite it iz Pard :P On a more serious note aimed at the detractors, .. does it really matter, really?
