What's amusing me today

Yeah I noticed that too. Got to presume he's saying it correctly and we're all wrong?

He's a print journalist, so pronunciation isn't really his field.

If only there was a definitive guide. Oh there is and he's wrong (Forest starts at about hour in): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNovNeQUU4

The lead singer of popular heavy band Beartooth came out as gay over the weekend. This is a pretty unremarkable thing in metal - Rob Halford of Judas Priest has been publicly out for decades - but the child in me can't help but giggle at a guy called Caleb Shomo coming out. Talk about nominative determinism.

Interesting to see what the uptake is

Roddy Bottum of Faith No More agrees.

A poke - Rooted in Ulster-Scots. The ice cream van is called "The Pokey Van".

I love norn Irish sayings. Reminds me of when we went to Windsor not long after moving here when I was young and my mum went up to the pokey van and, quite naturally, asked for a poke. The pokey man looked her up and down (she was a good looking woman back then, and still looks good now at 84), and replied "I'd love to missus, but I'm busy right now".

It's the dialect that you lose when you move away. I can put on an adequately passable Norn Irish accent even now (and always do, particularly when talking to family, or when in Norn Ireland and, to a lesser extent, with other Norn Irish people), but it would just be English with a norn Irish accent. I would really struggle to apply the sayings that would turn it into the Norn Irish dialect.

I can change my vowel sounds and pronunciations fluently (turning now or film into two syllable words for example), but I wouldn't remember to add "so it is" to the end of a sentence.

I'll end on one more. Obviously no Irish person ever, outside of American movies, has ever said "Top of the morning to you". In Belfast I'd greet you with "Bout ye?". If I was a being a bit more posh, "wadda bout ye?"

"bout yes?" The plural version l. Clearly difficult to write as it is the plural for ye rather than the affirmative statement.

Anyway, bout yes?

I love language.

Addendum.
While researching this (well there's no football), Gemini included this in one of its responses:

"a playful scene where friends are out getting a poke."

Is it Aus or NZ that loves Hokey Pokey ice cream? Not sure if there's any connection to the name.

Definitely AoNZ but probably Aussie as well.
A pokie machine here is one of those slot machines. They have whole rooms of them off the back of seedy pubs and a small amount of the profits go to charity in an attempt to legitimise the sordid enterprise.

Some chums have gone to Spain for the GP and have just discovered the following:

The Spanish GP at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has one of the strictest alcohol rules in Europe. By local law, alcohol cannot be sold inside the circuit. Instead, only soft drinks and 0.0% beer are available

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