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Eye on Portsmouth: Playing with the Pompey Patois

6th December 2016 Culture

Meditations on Marx, Pompey architecture and translating the local lingo. Local resident Mike Gumbrell turns his satirical eye to some of Pompey’s unique foibles.

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