Some years back, there was a “toad trail” in Hull - one of those things where there’s 100 sculptures installed around the city, each painted by a different artist, school or group.
Anyway, the vowel shift in Hull that turns “smoke” into “smirk” have us the joyous sentence:
“I’m off into town to go and see all the brightly coloured turds”
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Someone in Hull told me that they had a door-to-door salesman selling “smirk alarms”.
elephantium@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ehrmagerd!
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Some years back, there was a “toad trail” in Hull - one of those things where there’s 100 sculptures installed around the city, each painted by a different artist, school or group.
Anyway, the vowel shift in Hull that turns “smoke” into “smirk” have us the joyous sentence: