Here is a touch of what genealogists run into all the time. This is from the Oxford list today. Would they have considered themselves more Oxfordian than anything else? Oxfordian!
Love, Donnette Smith
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Sum on us cums frum Head'nton an' sum frum Shotover Hill. An' sum on us cums frum Ifflee an' sum all th' way frum Brill. We all on us speaks Queen's English 'xactly as 'ers is spoke. An' all on us be *Oxonians* - yer bain't if yer cums from Brill, me dear. Thas Bucks, that be.--
Eve McLaughlin
[Professional Buckinghamshire researcher and teacher]
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I fear for anyone who has never come across a broad English accent of any description reading these wonderful posts. But in the hope it doesn't send anyone fully round the big dipper my favourite Bucks quote is: Hay nay brayn cay. Translated means 'how now brown cow'. It will help Listers see how things were mistranscribed by parish scribes, census takers, etc. in the early years anyway!! Particularly when
people moved just down the road where the accent was completely different.
All the best everyone,
May LANCHBURY
Perth, Western Australia
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