2007-03-21 22:44:01 · 17 answers · asked by looby 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I'm a brit and I still know people who talk like that, but some people just think it's uncool! Don't listen to anybody else - you asked a perfectly valid question!
Take care old chap!
2007-03-21 22:49:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
was only a Small part of the middle upper class ,the "hoary Henrie's" around the turn of the century 20-30 etc.
A Tally is an accounts and inventory management
and tally ho is a term used by hunters of the fox usually
SO in that instance it means the "tally" of foxes to be caught
Do all Americans fcuk their family members or say yall ??
AND I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST CLASS
2007-03-22 05:51:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Brits only talked like that in Hollywood films.
2007-03-22 06:33:31 · answer #3 · answered by hecate321 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people still do. But then some people still go to private schools and call their father "sir"
Basically the advent of tv and easier travel led to a mixing and generalisation af accents effectively killing off the stronger regional dialects.
Further global influences contributed with the absorbsion of "foreign" words ie american terms etc.
2007-03-22 10:09:05 · answer #4 · answered by Debi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well! Hello Old Boy, How the devil are you?
Epitomy of the 50's upper classes. Leslie Philips personifies that era. Was that sort of speak as offensive as they way we nearly all speak to day especially the working classes.
The upper classes are just as crued but are a bit more subtle in how they say .... F...Orf Darlink.
2007-03-22 06:02:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Contrary to some of the answers, yes people, even "common" people used to speak properly apart from regionalised accents of course. Over the course of time strange phrases have crept in so that nowadays the youth seem to speak a lazy type of English and also copy Americanisms - they don't seem to realise that instead of being "cool" they just make themselves seem and sound illiterate and idiotic.
2007-03-22 05:55:41 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As with most things in the UK the middle and upper classes have been forced into feeling shamed of their background and the fact they received a good education.
Learning how to speak the Queen's English as it was intended has thus vanished.
Never mind though, pip pip, keep your chin up!
2007-03-22 05:58:18 · answer #7 · answered by lloydthebear 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody ever talked like that except in British 1950's movies and American movies up to around the mid-90's when they developed "Hollywood pronounced English" which still sounds like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins on acid.
2007-03-22 05:49:37 · answer #8 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Got to admit I am one of those crazy people, love the old saying of "you cad" but fortunately my mates love it and find it amusing I wouldn't be me without those old fashioned British sayings lol :)
2007-03-22 09:05:17 · answer #9 · answered by clare w 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Boss still talks like that.
2007-03-22 06:02:07 · answer #10 · answered by zoomraker 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋