> I confess I thought lighting the blue touch paper was known > worldwide ;-) > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) I thought so too. Anne

Well, at the risk of lighting the blue touch paper...I thought it was worldwide too I ! I read previous posts about the Geordie accent and Sunderland (stand back and light another blue touch paper)...I am Sunderland born and bred, our accent is very different to our neighbours 12 miles up the road. There is a massive local rivalry in my opinion (oopps, pass a match please). I can see similarities between what Maisie says about different ways of speaking from street to street. I can easily pick up different accents across towns from Sunderland to South Shields, Gateshead etc to the north and to County Durham villages and to Teesside to the south. But Maisie...even to a North East England lad like me, when the Glasgae patter starts at speed, I struggle to keep up ! Cheers everyone Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Burgess via" <lanark@rootsweb.com> To: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington.one@gmail.com>; <lanark@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [Lanark] "Speak properly" Nivard? Is that a deliberate lightingof the blue touch-paper? >> I confess I thought lighting the blue touch paper was known >> worldwide ;-) >> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > I thought so too. > > Anne > > > ------------------------------- > > WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier > message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. > > You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on > the following link to the list information page online: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Here in the states, I knew what what the phrase meant without thinking about it, but it is not all that well known. Though in this country, it seems as if a lot of people confront each other with a lit candle in one hand and blue touch-paper in the other, just to be ready for what will happen next. Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Burgess via" <lanark@rootsweb.com> To: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington.one@gmail.com>; <lanark@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [Lanark] "Speak properly" Nivard? Is that a deliberate lightingof the blue touch-paper? >> I confess I thought lighting the blue touch paper was known >> worldwide ;-) >> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > I thought so too. > > Anne > > > ------------------------------- > > WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier > message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. > > You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on > the following link to the list information page online: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message