Something about that thread title is worrying me. Nothing at all to do with the beautiful game, just a bit confused about the spelling. Got an email from a work colleague this morning about someone we have to meet next week. He finished by saying "By the way, he likes football". I replied that's a load of rubbish, he can't do, he follows Bristol City. (Don't get in a state bcfcred, it's only a joke!) It was only then when I replied "it's good to know he likes football" that I wondered why there was an "s" on the end of the "like" when it follows "he". Unless you're from Kairdiff, we say I like football - you like football - we like football and they like football but there's no "s" on the "like". Any grammatical geniuses out there who knows why there's one after he and let me sleep tonight? God I must be bored writing this on a football site. International breaks!!!
Well apparently (I looked it up btw... and you say you're bored ), it's a common grammatical term in English called âagreementâ, which means that the verb changes depending on the type of noun it refers to. English regular present tense verbs have an 's' or 'es' on the end when the subject is he, she, it, a person, or a singular or uncountable noun. I tried to learn 'teenager' once... but gave up on that one due to the headaches please log in to view this image
my grandad used to speak like that my favourite one was caaaaaardiff aaaaaaaaarms paaaaaaaaark i wish i spoke like that!
Although I've lived in Kairdiff in the past (flat with my cousin in Canton in 70's, a caravan (yes a caravan ) in Culverhouse in the early 80s, and finally The Drope for a couple of years), I'm a Bridgend boy and never got the accee. Back in the late 70's, my cousin Keith, Canton born and bred, spoke just like Frank Hennessy on drugs, I could airdlee understairnd the bairstud - but I always understood the word pint. I do feel a bit of an outsider sometimes - a bit like Dato Chan.......
Rhondda, like me, you will have been brought up to speak proper. In Cardiff they are brought up to talk tidy mun. It's just a local dialect, depending on if you live over there or over by here! At least we have the common language of Cardiff City FC.
I have no problem with the Cardiff dialect, it's one of the best. The Key Hard If (intsead of the Card if)chant started after a home game against Pompy they were chanting Pee Oats Mouth hated that too.
Cheers H And the Muppetts in Newport thought it was half tidy until a month later someone told them it was a pi$$ take.
