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Ah yes, you can see Saaarfend on there 
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Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith -
so what does it say on the back of an essex girls knickers?Hold my girlfriend while I kiss your skis.Comment
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what's estuary? it's an accent right?Comment
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Iain is right.
And an estuary is like a wide mouth of water, like the Thames Estuary, Humber Estuary or Severn Estuary...they are very wide and meet the sea...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Estuary English is the English spoken by folk who live near the Thames Estuary (an estuary being where a river meets the sea).Originally posted by Ecthelion
what's estuary? it's an accent right?One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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I have a mix between Estuary and Received Pronunciation, in case you were wondering.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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that must sound as good as my cockney/somerset combo
btw great site iain
classicQ. If an Essex girl and a Surrey girl jump out of an airplane at the same time, which one would hit the ground first?
A. The Surrey girl; the Essex girl would have to stop to ask directions.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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God knows what I have, some kind of East Yorkshire spoken properly and then Oxfordised...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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it's funny, the tendency to the 'u'-sound that is
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In the local dialect its pronounced Larndun.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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that's what I was told...Comment
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Fah. London. It's big and it smells of wee.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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