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It sometimes sounds like we are singing about a team named after an Irishman...and it's brian o'valbion, brian o'valbion fc...

...plus you have the dropping of the "h" and turning a "th" into a "v", also an "ing" in the middle of a word is pronounced as "in"...thus you get 'orsham, Wor'v'ing and Storr'in'ton...you might want to argue with me over that, but I wunt be druv!

You might be right...many sitcoms are made and survive with a lot flimsier plots than that!

I know what you mean. I once shared a house with, amongst others, a bloke with a broad Lancashire accent from Chorley and another with a slight stutter from Swansea. Neither of them could totally understand the other to start off with, for a couple of months or so I found myself acting as...

...umm, now you've got me thinking...that sounds like fun!

Exactly Lord B...just like someone from Sussex doesn't sound like someone from Southend, or someone from Hertfordshire like Hampshire, etc. The poster I replied to claimed unable to distinguish between anyone from any part of the South East...which surprised me a little...despite living here...

Likewise, but add ten years...I am now at the stage where several of my female friends, all sadly married, have taken it upon themselves to try and fix (fit) me up with a suitable lady...my life is starting to take the form of a Jane Austen novel! As for your regrets Marc, one of my mates who...

I have that trouble up norf, it is so difficult to distinguish between Lancashire and Yorkshire...although after a couple of seconds someone from the latter will tell you where they are from and how wonderful it is...problem solved!

...not from Shoreham, but not that far from...also got called Australian by some Americans in Montreal. When I told them that I wasn't Australian they asked why my accent was...go figure!

Spot on Dandyman, there is definitely a difference between the accent on the coast and north of the Downs, also the further west you go the more 'ampshire it gets. After leaving home my brother lived in Worthing and largely worked in London, his accent took on a bit of a Jack-the-lad twang...

Likewise, was up at six this morning and need to be up at the same time tomorrow!

I take it you are listening to the radio too then...I liked the bit where they went through the two teams and chose a preferred line up, they even selected Monty as twelfth man for his entertainment value and ability in delivering drinks!

What do you call an Australian with a bottle of champagne?

East End Lions of Sierra Leone: Haras el Hodood of Egypt: Not sure what my chances are with either of these two teams!

Teams coming out...covers off...let the fun commence!

Right England, can you finish them off before midnight...I would really like to go to bed with a smile on my face!

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I reckon that Avram is the safest out of that four...if I were Hodgson I would be a little bit worried, don't think the fans like him much any more, the club secretary is probably typing out his UB40 as I post this.

Yes, never had one myself and never will, have always been able to rely on a mixture of map-reading and intuition to get me to my intended destination. As for going to Germany, I lived on the Dutch/German border not far from Aachen for a few years...my chosen route going to and from Sussex was...

This is a good test of the seven degrees of separation...my guess is that the owner should be found from here well within that, unless Cordelia was some random foreigner on a visit to B&H.