Which English dialect do you speak?

We played British Bulldog in Florida. I loved it, it was one of the few sport activities at which I was any good.

there used to be a football game that was referred to as "English" when I was a kid. I can't even remember the rules and was totally shit at it and had zero enthusiasm to learn it. I can just remember hearing other kids saying : "we're off lecking English" and thinking: fuck that - I'm off to do something else then.

incidentally my favourite line from the intro to the OP quiz is this one: "scientists have discovered that many of the 'rules' taught in school are wrong anyway"

Using the prestige of "scientists have discovered that..." is a common rhetorical device to sell you something that even scientists are not above employing.

not really abt dialect but i found it rereading the opie book mentioned above:

for 200 yrs (until the 1950s) 25 July was called GROTTO DAY and londoners ate oysters and the children built little shrines with the shells and asked passersby "penny for the grotto"

probably it actually belongs on Real England

xp. that's very picturesque

http://i.imgur.com/bpUdqIN.png

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Their guesses for my native language were 1. Norwegian 2. English 3. Swedish ... I grew up in Minnesota and a lot of my ancestors were Swedish and Norwegian so ha.