The Welch Sailor's Mistake or Tars in Conversation

[anteros_lmc]

"And so then do you see David we sprang a leak."
"Got bless us - and save us - did you! And a ferry coot fetchitable it is. I should have liked to have had a pit with you."

Happy Saint David's Day!

Caricature by Thomas Rowlandson, c.1808, National Maritime Museum collection record here.

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

He speaks Welsh like Fluellen!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Do he does!

[ioanite.livejournal.com]

That's probably how the English back then saw the accent, for some bizarre reason. I've never understood the P for B thing.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Took me a while to figure it out. It is a leek joke! Oh dear. My daughter would agree that it is a very good vegetable. She has a passion for leeks.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

It is a leek joke!
You're being very charitable calling it a joke ;) I'm not surprised it took you a while to figure it out, I had to read it three times myself!

I approve of your daughter's passion for leeks, I am very fond of them myself, particularly in soup :)

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I suddenly had the thought that all Rowlandson's men were wearing badly applied 1950's lipstick. Now I cannot unsee it!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

OMG You're right! Bad lipstick and too much rouge! Classy.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

They put it on to go ashore.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

To match their flowery knickers?