Ahh, that explains it. Shoes and clothes are just generally more expensive here as far as I can tell.
It's like some bizarre parallel dialect evolution. (Have we had this conversation before? I have deja-vu). It sort of underscores the ridiculousness of judging people's education level on that sort of thing, because I'm ridiculously well educated! I just can't do this one thing.
(Random dialect thing: it was always amusing when York newcomers didn't get the 'streets are gates' thing, it's a gate cos tha gae't down it... Not sure about the apostrophe there but can't think how else to represent the glottal stop.)
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Date: 2015-02-19 09:34 pm (UTC)From:It's like some bizarre parallel dialect evolution. (Have we had this conversation before? I have deja-vu). It sort of underscores the ridiculousness of judging people's education level on that sort of thing, because I'm ridiculously well educated! I just can't do this one thing.
(Random dialect thing: it was always amusing when York newcomers didn't get the 'streets are gates' thing, it's a gate cos tha gae't down it... Not sure about the apostrophe there but can't think how else to represent the glottal stop.)