> Well, at the risk of lighting the blue touch paper...I thought it was > worldwide too ! > > 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 >