Last night we met Steve, Ollie, Emil, and Kathleen at Tapas Teatro for dinner, where I actually heard the word "scouse" used in conversation. (Not that I thought Laurie Taylor was actually deceiving me, but...)
Also: apparently the British pronounce "basil and oregano" "BAZZ-ill and oh-reh-GAH-no". (Or at least the ones from Somerset. As Ollie pointed out, he can have a harder time understanding people from different regions of the UK than he does understanding Americans.) And here I had been thinking that BASIL was an equally good solution to Isaac Asimov's Union Club mystery "Twelve Years Old".
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