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[email protected] · May 11th 16, 03:58 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Ding Bat) wrote:

On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 8:10:33 PM UTC+5:30, Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
wrote:
On Mon, 09 May 2016 14:19:12 +0200
Steve Hayes wrote:

I drove buses in London, though it was a long time ago.

In the garage where I was based (Brixton), about a third were
English, a third Irish and a third West Indian, and when any of those
groups were talking among themselves I couldn't understand a word
they said.

You couldn't understand the english ones either? Were
they speaking in rhyming slang or something?

I am occasionally unable to understand my colleagues when they converse
in Deepest Bristolian...

I've heard that Bristol can be pronounced Bristow. Is there a word
Bristowian?

I thought the alternative pronunciation was Bristle.

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Colin Rosenstiel