Not really, it just sounded like something a Dickens character might say, or Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's 'Pygmallion' A lower class British English speaker. I do enjoy Dickens so I paged through the book for the Dodger.
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What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house? antisocial behaviour
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called? pop
What do you call gym shoes? trainers
What do you say to address a group of people? that depends on the circumstances
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? do you mean a daddy long-legs?
What do you call your grandparents? nana, and my grandfather by his first name
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? a trolley
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? I don't call it anything.
What is the thing you change the TV channel with? my finger
Do you think you have an accent? slightly, but it's a hard to place accent
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called? pop
What do you call gym shoes? trainers
What do you say to address a group of people? that depends on the circumstances
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? do you mean a daddy long-legs?
What do you call your grandparents? nana, and my grandfather by his first name
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? a trolley
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? I don't call it anything.
What is the thing you change the TV channel with? my finger
Do you think you have an accent? slightly, but it's a hard to place accent
Ah, well what character do you find the most interessting?
And what kind of relatonship between the characters? I tried to find an analyses of the relationship between Fagin and Dodger, but couldn´t find anything, at least nothing for free.
I am quite grieved by the end of Dodger.
But I guess having written a good ending for him would not have been possibel, as that would have been to far off from showing that life to that time for some and also the character was emotionally and morally to dead already for a saving and redemption. Still...TerokNor
It has been a while since I read it so I don't want to put you on some ill thought out tangent. There is a decent run down of the book here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4239349/Oliver-Twist
and this page looks like an interesting source for Dickens in general.
http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4239349/Oliver-Twist
and this page looks like an interesting source for Dickens in general.
http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html
I've been trying to post a video, but my webcam is acting very strangely (it replays everything at twice the normal rate and cuts of about halfway through). I recorded it as an audio file and I'll give it a shot again as a video as soon as I can figure it out.
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house? TP'ing
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called? Soda
What do you call gym shoes? Sneakers
What do you say to address a group of people? Generally "you," occasionally "you guys," and "Y'all" when I'm trying to seem more polite and I'm with southerners.
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? Daddy Longlegs
What do you call your grandparents? Depends. Each is very different. Pop pop, grandpa, mum mum, and just Marie.
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? Shopping Cart
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? Sun Showers
What is the thing you change the TV channel with? Remote. My dad called it the zapper (New England thing, weird dad thing, I don't know).
Do you think you have an accent? Yeah
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house? TP'ing
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called? Soda
What do you call gym shoes? Sneakers
What do you say to address a group of people? Generally "you," occasionally "you guys," and "Y'all" when I'm trying to seem more polite and I'm with southerners.
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? Daddy Longlegs
What do you call your grandparents? Depends. Each is very different. Pop pop, grandpa, mum mum, and just Marie.
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? Shopping Cart
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? Sun Showers
What is the thing you change the TV channel with? Remote. My dad called it the zapper (New England thing, weird dad thing, I don't know).
Do you think you have an accent? Yeah
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house? ASB. Seriously though, there's a word for that?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called? by it's name - I don't have a generic word, 'soft drink' is closest but to me that's any cold non-alcoholic drink, so includes squash, juice, etc.
What do you call gym shoes? trainers
What do you say to address a group of people? informal: 'guys', formal: 'ladies and gentlemen'
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? a daddy-long-legs
What do you call your grandparents? Grandma and Granddad on one side, Nan and Granddad on the other.
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? a trolley
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? a rainbow, I assume you're getting at.
What is the thing you change the TV channel with? a remote
Do you think you have an accent? I'm from the Home Counties; this is just how things sound when their pronounced properly.
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called? by it's name - I don't have a generic word, 'soft drink' is closest but to me that's any cold non-alcoholic drink, so includes squash, juice, etc.
What do you call gym shoes? trainers
What do you say to address a group of people? informal: 'guys', formal: 'ladies and gentlemen'
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? a daddy-long-legs
What do you call your grandparents? Grandma and Granddad on one side, Nan and Granddad on the other.
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? a trolley
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? a rainbow, I assume you're getting at.
What is the thing you change the TV channel with? a remote
Do you think you have an accent? I'm from the Home Counties; this is just how things sound when their pronounced properly.
Not a rainbow but a sun shower. Some of the folkloric names are amusing.
One of the other questions That was answered by some people doing the Regional Dialect Meme on You Tube was
What is the bug that when you touch it rolls into a ball? (the term used on Wikipedia is woodlouse).
I noticed that Australians were saying 'slater' but some added that sometimes they called it a 'roly poly'.
Americans said 'roly poly'
The British seemed to be confused by the question. Obviously many of them didn't know what a woodlouse is. Some of them answered caterpillar.
Another question could be 'what do you call the young of a frog'. I assume that they answer would be either a tadpole or a polliwog depending on where you live.
I heard both growing up. I'm not sure what preference there might be for it back home.
Putting the month before the day doesn't make that much sense to me.
iBender, what about the 'bug that curls into a ball' question. Do you have a name for it.
We called them potato bugs in my neck of the woods.
Only tadpole is used in Australia. I think I was an adult before I even heard the term 'polliwog'.
Nope.
In an American dialect survey potato bug was mentioned as one of the names
What do you call the little gray creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?
a. pill bug (15.91%)
b. doodle bug (3.61%)
c. potato bug (12.95%)
d. roly poly(33.07%)
e. sow bug (4.13%)
f. basketball bug (0.08%)
g. twiddle bug(0.04%)
h. roll-up bug (0.21%)
i. wood louse (0.47%)
j. millipede(0.88%)
k. centipede (2.31%)
l. I know what this creature is, but have no word for it (9.44%)
m. I have no idea what this creature is (13.21%)
n. other (3.68%)
(10673 respondents)
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The people who voted J and K should have probably been voting M.
Yes, they had no idea what creature was being talked about.
For those that don't know here is a photo of one
For those that don't know here is a photo of one
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