Understanding Pour1Malt

[Jerry]

That's probably because the computer users have to often figure out the mishmash that some people call spelling online.

No, for me, it's having to figure out what I meant to write sometimes. That's why you might notice a lot of my posts have been edited. I post them and look later and say, "now what was that word supposed to be" and change it. For the record, I'm not a bad speller, but I can't type worth a crap.

[bangkok kilt]

Doesn't make me real happy about all those spelling test growing up!

[James]

Many years ago-early 50's, I was staying at the Youth Hostel in Dunblane: and for whatever reason there was a group of lads from Glasgow-and another from Edinburgh.

In those pre-TV days they were from different planets-so I and my English chum had to translate between the two groups.

Another bit to the story-during the war I was sent to a private school in Hampshire [southern England] thanks to my accent-I was called Scottie [did they notice my kilt?]-to that I added a bit of Hampshire: so by my prep school only I could understand what I was saying--thanks to teacher and pupil pressure I gradually started to speak with a semi English accent-which had turned in pure English by the time I left my public school.

As a result, though now when drunk I can do cod Irish and Welsh-I cannot do anything from north of the border. I suppose a consequence of trying so hard to speak like my peers, so many years ago.

James