Local Dialect Detective Gifts

"We've a phone tap on Paul Gascoigne. Quick! Get a translator!"

"My granddaughter's first words to me were 'OK, Boomer.' I have no idea what that even means."

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

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

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

"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.

Scouse For Beginners

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

"I detect an accent – money?"

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

'The footprints in the cheesecake were inconclusive, but my DNA was all over the peanut butter pie.'

The Tangents talk it over.

Surreal scene depicting a dry cleaner shop interior, with pant zipper flies stuck to a fly strip.

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

"Our researchers have discovered that 'E' is the most common, and only, letter in the dolphin alphabet."

Cowboy on horse sees diretion sign for 'thataway'.

"I know it's a foreign book...but I'm reading it with a local accent."

"Something’s wrong. I can tell by the way you’re being nice to me."

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

"Richard has quite an ear for dialogue."

"Obviously, somebody screwed up somewhere."

Scottish Dialect

'I'm afraid he has sweeny flu.'

'My course covers all the dead languages.'

Dave could never work out how he lost his nose stud.

'Birmingham AY to ZEE'

"I'm tripping over bernedoodles, labradoodles, goldendoodles, schnoodles and cockapoos, ...and you want me to somehow believe you're not sleeping around?"

'I'm not paying for another misspelling, and give me back the rhngchtanza!'

"I detect an accent — one that's down on its luck and has had too much to drink."

"It's an 'Ee by gum' bike."

'What the blue blazes is a 'tunerfish' sam'wich!?'

'After 15 years in management I've learnt how to read people. I can sense that there's something wrong.'

'Do you sell focaccia?'- 'What did you say?' - 'Focaccia.' - 'I think you should leave now.' - 'Pervert.'

A Yankee in Dixie: 'What in blue blazes is a 'tunerfish' sam' wich?'