Exeter words...

I am sitting in a hospital bed with little to do besides people watch, especially before I paid an extortionate amount of money to use this Andrew Lansley henchmen installed partial internet portal....

So I have started to collect words~

My favourites are the words of endearment used by nurses to deal with patiants. The  more decreped you look the more they use these terms...

"my lovely"
"my darlin'/darling"
"love"
"sweatheart"
"poppet"

I also heard two Devon nurses joking about the Bristolian "my lover"...  "Sweatheart" went together with "love" and with "my darling".

Another bit of earwigging I did was of an ealderly Devon family (not saying exactly where) who came out with the following beautifuly poetic turns of phrase ~

"Every thin's chaingen', innette?" "Is et?" "Ooo, et es."

"We 'add a chreffec 'ail storm, and them cars was just crawlin' along..."

(Daughter reprimanding dad) "Here then, you got 'em, 'ant ee?"

"Dohn it mek the meat tender?" "Do et?"  "Yeh"  "Were d' ee gedd et?"  "Down Tesco's."

"Tis' WILD out there." (about the weather).

One person (no Devon accent) complained that her daughter she had carefully named Macey was called at  school "Maizey".  Maizey is dialect for crazy...