Dialect Detective Prints

Cowboy on horse sees diretion sign for 'thataway'.

'Birmingham AY to ZEE'

"I detect an accent – money?"

Your kitchen should get its act together. This is Manhattan clam chowder, and yet the fly in this soup has a New England accent.

Lingua East Anglia.

''Pop'? In my part of the country they're called a 'Soda-Tart'.'

Scouse For Beginners

'My course covers all the dead languages.'

"It's a faithful adaptation of the book, but I'm thrown off by the director's decision to go with Philly accents."

"Do you think it might be Welsh?"

Cubanisms in the Spanish language

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

"I can't decide if we're good people who are bad at communicating, or monsters who communicate perfectly."

"It's not fair! I only got 100 on my English test!"

"Here...let me call an expert...someone who knows about these things."

'Um, can I get a FOURTH opinion?'

"And here is the very stone that finally enabled us to figure out what all those dogs and cats were saying."

CHAUCER 411, 'Boy -- that guy spells worse than I do!'

"So I'm like, doesn't anyone speak proper English any more?"

These young people need everything spelled out to them! I miss the old days, when a wink was a wink, and a nod was a nod.

"Look, look … someone wrote unoperable."

'As far as we can tell, the system went down because someone stepped on a crack in the sidewalk.'

Journey of a sandwich through the digestive system.

'I have no idea what's wrong with you. I just collect information. My computer makes the decisions.'

"My conclusion that he lied was based on his body language, his polygraph results, and the complete implausibility of his story."

Vladimir Putin as Uncle Sam

"How am I supposed to trust my gut when it can't even handle a little dairy?"

"Your body language says you've lost interest."

'The rozzer in the dorp had never seen a quod.'

'You're free to get a second opinion, but it looks like something's wrong with that green thingie by your liver.'

"I'm an atheist. I don't believe in programmers."

"Hi! My name is Dr. Jenkins and welcome to 'This is your disease'."

The Tangents talk it over.

I don't know what it is, but it's a textbook case of something.

'I diagnosed you with THAT? Whoa! You patients really need to be more involved with your healthcare!'