Gordon, I bet I'd know you were from North Wales! I reckon that's where a big part of our general Liverpool accent comes from, along with Ireland - Scots to a lesser degree Marj >I reckon I can tell whether another scouser comes from the North End >(Bootle area) or the South End (Dingle) by the way they pronounce words > >like Hair, Fair, Warehouse Don't know where you'd place me, if e-mails could talk! Born Walton, infancy Bootle, aged 2-4 (wartime) Caernarvon, 1945-53 Huyton, 1953-65 Whiston......... Gordon