...close together, you can hear very different speech patterns within a few miles of one another. (On my first trip in 1984, when we told our Cambridge B&B Lady that we were going to Ely to see the cathedral, she said scornfully, "Oh, it's lovely, but you can't understand a word they say in Ely." We laughed because Ely is only 15 miles from Cambridge. But she was right - we couldn't.) The most obvious differences seem to be in the pronunciation - or lack of it - of the letter T. Spoken by an educated proponent of the Queen's English, the T will be very precise and carefully pronounced. In other mouths, it may be elided or missing altogether. We noticed, in York, which has an extremely distinctive accent, that a T in the middle of a word went missing most of the time, and the vowel that followed the missing T had a glottal start. So a word like...
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Advantages: So much to see and do Disadvantages: Exhausting if you try to. Might not want to come home, leading to forgetting to paying the mortgage and having the house re-possessed!
..., pushing a wide variety of tasty snacks from hot pretzels (the real ones) to hot dogs so you don’t have to wait till you’re starving before partaking of some well-timed in-flight refuelling. In theory, this should keep the cost of your evening meal down. In practice, you just get fatter by eating both. I did, along with a lot of native New Yorkers too, by the looks of things!
For sheer value-for-money, we surpassed ourselves this year, with a huge Greek-style lunch at The Tramway Diner, near the Roosevelt Island Tramway. With drinks, this came to the equivalent of about £12 for two including 8% tax and that hefty 15% tip.
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One little gem we stumbled upon before leaving for New York the first time was the “Big Apple Greeter” organisation. They will assign you your own personal living breathing New Yorker...
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Before I begin, I warn you that I have a lot to say. I will try to be succinct (as always), but there's a very good chance I'll fail. For your information, I am writing this review on my shiny new Mac! I should also warn you that I have exams starting more