Hi Roy,
I can see what you mean. After an absence of nearly half a century I
returned to Belfast. Picked up by cousins from the airport we squeezed
into their car, with luggage, and proceeded to Newtonards. En route,
there was easy banter between us, jokes and smiles but my Australian
wife had difficulty following the conversation. It was not just the
accents, but the expressions and light humour too. I had no difficulty -
in fact I didn't even notice any difference between us. "You haven't
left Ireland, have you?" she asserted.:-D Apparently my brough was still
apparent - it was easy to slip back into vernacular.
Gordon
On 15/01/2019 7:17 am, Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList wrote:
When I worked in Scotland in 1974 I took a couple of trips to Northern
Ireland. When I went there the voices and accents I heard sounded very
much like the old people I grew up with from around the Ottawa Valley
Canada though they where four generations removed. The longer I was
there the easier it was for me to slip into the way of speaking they had.
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