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    I spent most of my schooldays in north Derbyshire, and amongst mates we spoke Derbyshire Tup - "Ay up, astha dayin'?" translated into BBC English as "Hello old chap, how are you keeping?" - but at school and formally we spoke proper English.

    Now I'm getting old and cranky I tend to get annoyed by lazy English, especially what I thought was a modern trend of replacing 'have' with 'of', as in "he could of done that" but I've just read The Great Gatsby and found the same written in there in 1926 - it would be interesting to find if they were linguistically linked or independently came about.

    There's a great Pete Seeger song called All Mixed Up on this subject, I can't remember all of it but will try to find the lyrics online.

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