You may be right,Mr C, but Bottle of sauce rhymes much more with the cockney prenunciation, Bottle and Glass must be American rhyming slang
Incidently for people interested in language and how it changes over the years, I can highly recomend, Bill Brysons book, Made in America, a facinating and hilarious study of American English.
I had always regarded American English as a bang up to date version of our own language, but this is not so, words and phrazes that we think of as Americanisms, where in common use in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they fell out of usage here but continued to be used in the USA.
The classic being Fall for autumn, that is what Autumn was widely called here in the seventeenth century.
Also he writes some great stuff on the Founding Fathers,and the War of Independance,Pilgrim Fathers ect, definatly worth a read.
Bryson is always worth reading, he's one of the funniest writers ever to come out of the colonies.
ps, it has always struck me as strange that regional accents don't seem to have developed much in Australia, leastwise I can't detect much difference, any Australians shed any light on this mystery?.
By the way Mr C hows Minnie Bannister these days, she must be banging on a bit.
[ 25 July 2001: Message edited by: tony draper ]
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