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Eastern European nurses are having training to help them understand dialects after they reported problems deciphering regional phrases in Lancashire.
Newly recruited European nurses are being given extra training to help them understand the Lancashire dialect – including phrases like “make us a brew.”
Nurses appointed to address a national shortage of staff have reported struggling to understand phrases like “I’m starved,” which means I’m cold in Lancashire, once they have started working at hospitals outside London.
Staff at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals in Lancashire reported having difficulty understanding words like ‘blood’ and ‘bath’ when said in a certain accent as well as regional phrases such as ‘am a get.’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...tand-Lancashire-phrases-like-make-a-brew.html
And we, in turn, have problems understanding some HCPs! 🙂
Newly recruited European nurses are being given extra training to help them understand the Lancashire dialect – including phrases like “make us a brew.”
Nurses appointed to address a national shortage of staff have reported struggling to understand phrases like “I’m starved,” which means I’m cold in Lancashire, once they have started working at hospitals outside London.
Staff at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals in Lancashire reported having difficulty understanding words like ‘blood’ and ‘bath’ when said in a certain accent as well as regional phrases such as ‘am a get.’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/n...tand-Lancashire-phrases-like-make-a-brew.html
And we, in turn, have problems understanding some HCPs! 🙂