Here on the sunny south coast – where almost everyone is a public school educated millionaire – we have "lakes".
Re-reading my post from earlier today, I realise that it may have looked like pointless nonsense.
Not, I imagine, that anyone would have cared much either way. Indeed some might say, "No change there, then."
Nonetheless I clarify as follows.
Amused by JontyR’s
... If you go on the West Midlands board you will see that there we have “loikes" ...I was trying to suggest that here in the south we pronounce “likes” as “lakes”.
In reality, of course, no-one talks like that any more. But you get that kind of clipped, old-fashioned upper-class pronunciation in films from the 1940s, where you might hear someone saying: “Every girl lakes a man who rides a motor-bake.” Indeed when she was a young woman, the late Queen spoke a bit like that.
Oh dear. I’m talking to myself again.
I’ll get my coat.
