Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on September 21, 2006 at 11:22:13 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: D&Gs (Was Girls who dare (was Hot Water) posted by Pam Adams on September 20, 2006 at 22:47:40:
I don't think Port's use of Ginty language was meant to be offensive or patronising, any more than Starboard's use of broad Norfolk.
Nobody would have suggested that there was anything wrong if Mrs McGinty had spoken Gaelic to them and Port had used Gaelic herself.
Children do pick up dialects and my own used to switch effortlessly from broad Lowestoft (which is awful) to something more normal according to whom they were speaking.