Northerners - love'em really!

[louisiana]

Ian Brown.

Now there's a vocalist who can't hold an in-tune note to save his pretty face, especially in a live performance. (And yes, I saw him everywhere from t'north of England to down in Barcelona with the Roses in the 90s, and last time a year or two back at the Brixton Academy).

BUT, what magic James Lavelle weaves with an Ian Brown vocal. Magic. If it were not for Ian's flat northern vowels, it would not be the same.

(PS I was born in a northern town. Does that count as being a northerner?)

(PPS North is anywhere north of Elephant. But especially north of Leeds or so.)

[Annette Curtain]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00446/news-graphics-2007-_446892a.jpg Are you having a laff ?

[Scribe]

In the north of England:

"Us" is singular. "Thaa" is plural. "Thaas" is plural possessive.

"He were a southern bugger" is an accepted legal defence.

All caravans have a satellite dish attached to them. And in some cases, they're worth more than the caravan.

[Scribe]

It's also not uncommon to encounter rickets and wooden teeth.

[Scribe]

And street lights running on paraffin.

[louisiana]

Nette, I find the 'u' sound particularly telling.

'Come'

etc.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Lonning

Lovely word

[Annette Curtain]

My Mam is from Sooth ( sand dancin' ) Shiel's

But you'd never know it by her accent until she says....

Buus http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Constanta_pink_bus.jpg/800px-Constanta_pink_bus.jpg

or Koo-ker.http://wonderfuelgas.co.uk/images/gas%20cooker%20installation%20new%20malden.jpg

The rest of the time it's pure "telephone" South of England "posh"

Nette.:)

[Scribe]

The former, well renowned steeplejack/steam enthusiast whose thumbs rarely, if ever, left his waistcoat pockets, once said during one of his programmes that dowries are still paid in some of the more remote stretches of the Peak District.

[louisiana]

'bus' indeed, Nette :)

Sorry, my last missive was interrupted by Skype from sunny Italy, or I'd have listed more examples.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'm jealous of Sheffield. I want one of these.

[HonaloochieB]

Any place that gives us the words 'thraiped' and 'mither' is A-OK in my buke.

[binary_star]

"We used to dream of living in a corridor"

 

[fyvum]

North was considered a line struck between Oxford and Cambridge and north of that line was forever up North.

Below that line was always dahn saaf and sometimes down south.

....northerners are far more straight forward to deal with and to talk to,

as they always call a spade a jockin' shovel!

[raymondouppernorwood]

I love going up north you don't have to think