Stupid TouristsWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a tourist say? Ever heard an American talking about visiting "Scotchland, England", or (and this one is actually real) a Japanese couple talking about the correct way to say Clapham is actually Clatham, as "ph" sounds are pronounced "th". Which has a certain logic really. UPDATE: Please, no more Loogabarooga stories. It's getting like, "and I opened my eyes and my mum had left me a cup of tea!"
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:31)
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For 'Local People'On holiday with the family a few years back, and we ended up in Northumberland, in a nice little town known as Alnwick (pronounced Ann-ick.) Well being the tourists that we were my mum first pronounces it as "Aln-wick" to which my dad corrected her. So from then on my brother, my father and I pronounce "Ann-ick".
Well with my mum being a bit -how shall I put this- fucked in the head, she loudly protests that, "It's spelt Aln-wick. With a L in it. L L L! I don't care if the local people say Ann-ick, were not fucking locals. It's spelt with a L so that's how it's meant to be said." She ended with, "Did you want an egg sandwhich or a turkey."
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Fluffy elephants, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 11:13,
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