Thursday, July 20, 2017

Cloth ears!

Regular readers of this blog (Hello?  Is there anyone out there?) will know that I live close to the town of Walsall here in the West Midlands.  Big excitement on local social media recently suggesting that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would be visiting the town with their children - several people having "heard it on the news". What's happened is that Walsall in the local Black Country dialect is pronounced "Worsull" and this is easily confused with Warsaw, the capital of Poland, which is where said Royals are actually visiting. Put your union flags away, folks!

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