I'm Wenglish, when someone asks me over here in Ohio. What gets up my nose is when I'm trying to listen to the commentary of a soccer match while on my computer, and there's a Cockney, or a Scottish commentator. I've come to the conclusion that it must be part of their probation stint. Terry ---- Gareth <tirbach@clara.co.uk> wrote: > I'm one of the fortunate few, able to claim the great privilege of dual > nationality being born in London of Welsh parents. > Probably explains why I'm sometimes perplexed when the whole nationality > thing is taken too seriously, in my humble opinion. > > This *light hearted* exchange on the BBC's flagship Today programme last > week may help to put it in perspective since it has 2 prominent broadcasters > being able to banter about it publically. > ########## > Today presenter James Naughtie was surprised to learn that underneath his > obvious Scottish-ness, he's actually English ! > Tests on his DNA showed his origins to be Anglo Saxon. > "He's English," quipped John Humphrys . > "At least I'm not Welsh," Naughtie retorted. > "He's one of those little black gnomes from Brittany," jibed Naughtie at his > sparring partner. > "I'm going to go to the CRE," threatened Humphrys. "Someone make the call > for me..............." > ############## > > Mind you, as someone with a bland 'South East England ' accent I'm > inexplicably irritated when hearing a heavily Scottish accent pronouncing > the word 'food' in some tv advert or other :-) > I speak 'tongue in cheek' of course - as a Welsh/Englishman (Oh, > definitely that way round!) I like the Scots (and the Irish) and regional > accent has nothing whatsoever to do with nationality. > > I've just reported the facts as light heartedly as possible - without making > an issue out of it. > The last thing I want is a list exchange on nationality, so please just > assume that the list admin wouldn't either. > > > Gareth > Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ > Help Page http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > Cwmgors/Waun http://www.tytwp.plus.com/Waun/Waun.html > > > -- > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message