Some years back, there was a “toad trail” in Hull - one of those things where there’s 100 sculptures installed around the city, each painted by a different artist, school or group.
Anyway, the vowel shift in Hull that turns “smoke” into “smirk” gave us the joyous sentence:
“I’m off into town to go and see all the brightly coloured turds”
This makes perfect sense in Leeds
Someone in Hull told me that they had a door-to-door salesman selling “smirk alarms”.
Ehrmagerd!
Some years back, there was a “toad trail” in Hull - one of those things where there’s 100 sculptures installed around the city, each painted by a different artist, school or group.
Anyway, the vowel shift in Hull that turns “smoke” into “smirk” gave us the joyous sentence: