From the Mouths of Babes (or Bairns)

Funny that. I've heard people from Newcastle saying, 'Keegan's the messiah!" and I can't understand what they're talking about either!

Mark

Ouch

A couple of weeks ago my granddaughter, who is three, came into my listening room and said, "Grandpa your room is so tidy I'm very proud of you".

Getting ready to go to a family wedding a couple of weeks ago my son (aged 12) asked "Will we be allowed to throw cauliflower?".

Fortunately he spotted his Malapropism before anyone got hurt.

Willy.

....Says daughter (just coming in from school) who had just had a lesson about France and Paris in particular "We've been past that tower haven't we Dad" what tower? says I ...."The awful tower" says daughter!!!

My 6 year old daughter (at the time) was playing outside on the step. I asked 'what are you doing darling?' she said "just being daddy, just being"

My 6-year old recently made a card for me at school. It contained three words:

Fat
Funny
Cross

She does have a most excellent sense of humour!

(fortunately for her, so do i!)

Many years ago my friend and I were at a YMCA outside Rimini (Italy). We were cleaning our teeth at the sinks when we over heard two other males at the sink talking to each other for a long time. Normally we would of ignored them because it would been in a language we were vaguely familiar with (European or even Eastern European- since we both spoke in English and Polish). However their language and accent was nothing we ever heard before. Both of them looked English but the language was a real puzzle.There was a particular tone to their speech, for a moment I thought of the Welsh language, but it was too guterral, but not in the German way. The two males seemed pretty jovial, so I could not resist it any more and said hi to them. I explained in slow English that we(my mate and I) are both from England. One of the lads shook hand and jovially replied to me in their language. However since he was talking directly to me I caught some words- just came off plane- Newcastle. Both of them talked to us in a very animated fashion. It was first time that we as teenagers came across Goerdie's in the flesh. The more they talked the more we began to understand them. We got on well with them, and their outlook on life was refreshing in that they were not so cynical in general as us southerners. However if they disliked someone or something they soon expressed their views in no uncertain terms.

So I can fully understand when the five year old son of Discuss 62 'couldn't understand the caller as they were talking in a foreign language' as referred to the first message. of this forum

Romi

But we live barely 15 miles from Newcastle and are fluent in Geordie

Diccus