When We was fab or When We were fab ?

[tourist]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DET45Tr421s

"When We was fab" George Harrison

[koan]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DET45Tr421s

"When We was fab" George Harrison

"Speakers in many parts of the UK, perhaps particularly in southern England, mark the past tense of to be by saying I was, you was, he, she and it was, we was and they was, whereas speakers of other dialects differentiate by using you were, we were and they were."

А сами битлы, естественно, говорили на scouse, поскольку они были из Ливерпуля. Так что язык Харрисона никак нельзя отнести к Queen's English. По опросам ливерпульцев, Харрисон был номер 3 в списке "Top scousers".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3524802.stm

[tourist]

Спасибо, это познавательно.