On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:16:23 -0700, "Bob Myers"
> wrote:


>Although I also should note that I have a good friend who
>recently moved to the U.S. from Greenock, Scotland, and I
>have occasionally (when we're both in the S.F. Bay area, attending
>the meetings of a standards group we both attend) been pressed
>into service as a translator for him - going between his version
>of the Queen's English and Californian (which is another very
>distinct dialect all its own...:-)).

Do you mean Grenock on the Firth of Clyde?

I was there in about 1960, I spent a few months not understanding
people, and doing a lot of smiling and nodding my head.

The people were very nice to a bunch of young boys who could not
speak English, only American.

Pan Ohco