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  • Yu can had jellyanyscreem an a pees ob caek an a pyper hat an potted b eef sangwidges!

    Quick!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • First of all Mrs Bosenna, that never had a child of her own, sent down to the cabin for the mustard that had been left over from the Sailin 'Committee's sangwidges, and mixed up a drink with it and a little cold water.

    Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Bitter lemonade and sangwidges -- who wants sangwidges?

    Betty Trevor George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • 'Wot are they all a-eatin' ham sangwidges for? 'inquired his father.

    The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

  • 'Wot are they all a-eatin' ham sangwidges for? 'inquired his father.

    The Pickwick papers 1836

  • ‘Wot are they all a – eatin’ ham sangwidges for?’ inquired his father.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • I hope it’ll pour prais the Climate of all Ireland I heard the grackles and I skimming the crock on all your sangwidges fip-pence per leg per drake.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Is those sangwidges anchovy or jam, do you think? "

    The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

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  • How you say it when you're eating with the Queen

    June 24, 2009

  • And how does she say it?

    June 24, 2009

  • that would be a good list:

    Phrases to utter when you're entertaining the Queen

    For example, "How's Cammy?"

    June 24, 2009

  • Excuse my ignorance but, where does this one come from? Is 'How you say it when you're eating with the Queen the title'??

    July 22, 2009

  • in RP, it's distinctly pronounced 'sangwidges'. listen for it next time a really pompous BBC radio dramatist comes on.

    July 22, 2009

  • I think you're wrong here, madders. Her maj would avoid the word, or if absolutely necessary pronounce it distinctly with a 'd'. This is how cockernee urchins say it (or said it), and it lives on in the Black Country (and elsewhere) slang sangers. (Or maybe it's listed as sangers).

    July 22, 2009

  • Mary had a little lamb

    Her father shot it dead.

    Now it goes to school with her,

    between two chunks of bread.

    July 22, 2009