Languages of the 20th Century

If me and you did go in our time machine, would we be able to understand what people were saying? You'd hear a lot of languages. For much of this century, more people living in the city born outside it than within it. A lot of migration from other parts of england and britain before railways hare taken over. There are stereotypes that find their way into the theatre and into the songs of the comic yorkshiremen as much as the comic irishmen. We still have all these things. Backslang may be a real thing. As we do have the record of one clerk getting verye ted and thinking, this is far funnier than it really