"Weee!....He’s a right dinlo....Dip me ‘ead for a sparsy!...she’s well squinny!" If you cannot understand at least a couple of these expressions then there’s a good chance you’re not from Portsmouth. - Mark H

"Dr Clark said Pompeyspeak was closely tied to the dockyards and was distinct from naval slang, which came and went with the sailors. She said this maritime connection set the accent apart from the typical Hampshire drawl. ‘The Hampshire accent is a very broad, country accent, with longer R-sounds,’ Dr Clark said. ‘I would say that the vowels are broader rather than the rather clipped, pinched, Portsmouth accent, which is more like cockney.’ The cockney connection could have been due to a huge expansion of the dockyard towards the end of the 1800s, when many dockworkers from London’s East End moved to Portsea Island." - Mark H

Tagged Maitani as I know of your fondness for linguistics. - Mark H

Interesting how some of the accents appear to have changed (not that I've got a real Pompey accent anyway) and odd to see phrases written down as "Going deyn tayn on the Saith Dain for half a crane" whereas we would be much more likely now to say something like "Goin' dan tan rand the randabat" (going down town, round the roundabout). - Mark H

Thank you! You probably haven't known of my fondness for listening to various forms of British English. :-) - Maitani