O, whats O, I'll explain

Our English language is full of dialects and Australia isn't any different to anywhere else. Here it is a general rule to add a "O" to the name of a friend, doesn't really shorten it only becomes your nickname.

You can walk into your place of work and it can go like this.

"Hy Robo."

"Hy Davo, wheres chriso?.'

"Hes up on the roof with Johno."

"They need to be carefull, Jacko had a fall up there yesterday, cut his arm open."

" Ya, hes off work today, hes on Compo." (Workers Compensation).

Well you know what I'm talking about, like how in Norwich we drop our H's. After we married, we moved from Norwich to Wymondham, bought a little bungalow off Tuttles lane and thats where both our older sons were born.Linda stopped working in Norwich and started working at the Wymondham Laundry, I will allways remember when she came home one day and told me that a co worker had said to her that she wasn't a local as she drop her H's and must be a Norwich Gal. Good old bit of Norfolk dialect,Gal.

Well, now to the point. Linda is at the present with her mother and her family in Norwich and I make it a rule to ring at least twice a week to say hello to my sweetheart. On the phone its obvious that this dialect thing is a state of mind, I can talk to linda, who will be answering me in an Aussie dialect and then she will speak to her mother whilst on the phone and I will hear her dialect completely change to a good old Norwich dialect, stranger ain't it.

Well chat later cobba, just gotta go up the milk bar and score some milko, then to the servo for some fuelo.

Robbo, Deano, Noelo and Chriso