Are these our neighbours and friends?

[kayakebab]

I'm from good old Sussex by the Sea, we speak proper like our mums learnt us.

[Dutchie]

Dakika being pronounced as dakka and naber instead of ne haber is a national "problem".
The people from Fethiye do speak with a dialect but it isn't too bad. "Ovacikians" speak the worse I would say.

[Dutchie]

It's amazing how many people have awful grammar - Facebook has exposed them for things like not being able to use your & you're correctly. Lucky we have a few who can use English correctly - Dutchie for one

When we first arrived in Fethiye region six years ago I started thinking that I had skipped a few grammar lessons in school since I kept hearing the same kind of phrase which I had never heard before: "I was sat in the restaurant". I even googled it to see whether it was grammatically correct  

I also won't forget the look on my (Turkish) husbands face the first time that somebody said "He don't". He got so confused and asked afterwards how somebody was able to say that. Six years later he stopped asking lol.

[JohnF]

When we first arrived in Fethiye region six years ago I started thinking that I had skipped a few grammar lessons in school since I kept hearing the same kind of phrase which I had never heard before: "I was sat in the restaurant". I even googled it to see whether it was grammatically correct   

The standard of English grammar taught in schools in The Netherlands (and Germany) is far higher than that taught in the UK - a good friend, and for several years a colleague, was always correcting both mine and another native speakers grammar.  He was Dutch and learned English and German at school from an early age - his English was amusing as he spoke with an Irish accent having working in Dublin for about a fortnight  

JF

[kevin3]

  Ahh, that would be Mr O'clogerty.     

[JohnF]

Bloody hell Kevin, you know him too?  That boy doesn't half get about   

JF

[johntaylor49]

I'm from good old Sussex by the Sea, we speak proper like our mums learnt us.

What Ho Kaya, Goring by Sea in my case, but ran away to be a soldier as a young man, and, as they say, I am still here because "Old soldiers never die, they only fade away, lie my tan when I go home again! JT

[kayakebab]

boring Goring as known to us shorehamites  

[kayakebab]

Need to add to that though, it will always have a place in my heart, it's where my very special friend Sarah lived, sadly she died a couple of years ago, but have great memories of visiting her in Goring.

[usedbustickets]

For we're the men from Sussex, Sussex by the Sea.
We plough and sow and reap and mow,
And useful men are we;
And when you go to Sussex, whoever you may be,
You may tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the Sea!