It's not much of a rivalry. The north is the seat of all that is good, wise and cultured in England. The south is full of strange-speaking barbarians Well then!
LOL@Eunoia! Link, just so you know how this thing breaks down, this is how the North-South divide goes: Southerners regard themselves as altogether more sophisticated than Northerners. Northerners think themselves friendlier, physically hardier, and bearers of more common sense than Southerners. (To those boasts, incidentally, a Southerner would say: your friendliness is gullibility; your hardiness is the fat about your belly which enables you to withstand the cold; and, your common sense seems prominent only because you entirely want erudition.)
In unrelated news, my 4-year-old glasses just broke, so I have to go take it to the glasses shop tomorrow to get it fixed. In the mean-time, I get to see the world as vaguely blurry, with small words even more blurrier. 8D Of course, putting aside the fact that I have only one eye. xD What an interesting week this is turning out to be.
Well, not exactly. "Arse" as a word for bottom is entirely correct. It's pronouncing words like "brass" and "grass" as if they have an "r" in them ("brarse, grarse") which is the questionable part Regional rivalries are fun
They are also fun stuff to read about across the pond. Thanks for the entertainment, mi amigos. EDIT: Although, I have watched a few British shows and they've pronounced it as "arse". Then again, I may not be hearing the 'r' in front of it.
I love dialects. Seriously, slang and accents are awesome. Like in Wisconsin, everyone calls "drinking fountains" bubblers.
I like my accent. I also like the Geordie accent. And the Edinburgh accent. (So the lass I know who was born in Edinburgh, spent ten years there, then moved to Newcastle has possibly the most perfect accent outside of Yorkshire I've ever heard.)
I just banged out over 130 pages of grant proposals. I compared my work from 2 months ago to my current stuff and was amazed how far I've come. Now I just need to bang out some fiction to off-set all this productivity.
I feel like my brain is plauged by a swarm of flies that constantly nip and pick at it. Maybe one day I will be able to live with them in harmony rather than swat them futilely.
We make bloody great cream teas and our accents are sophisticated! Banzai's just jealous of my beautiful Essex twang. And that goes for the rest of you flat-cap-wearing-pie-chomping-notherners!
I have what folks call a deaf accent. Why? I shall let you clever people figure that one out. SO! Who here thinks the Scottish accent is...sexy?
As much as I love your voice sweetie, I wouldn't want to be anything but a pie-chomping (not so hot on the flat caps...) northerner!
My home town officially has the best pies in the country - it took the title off Wigan a year of two back. And the north wins on account of having Patrick Stewart. I've just got back from Newcastle, where I ran a writing workshop last night. It's been a frenetic couple of days, but I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet up with one of my old housemates (something to do with his girlfriend and an alarm clock...) but it's been a good couple of days almost purely talking about writing and video games. Now for QI.
I very much enjoy the liverpudlian accent as everything comes out a Gh' sound so I love how a word such lock be logh not the logh ness of course.
Someone slide me a slice of these famous British pies already....next they'll be saying they got the best pizza...
The Italians can keep their pizza. They do the best (according to my ex, who is actually of Italian extraction, so she should know). Currently writing the main 'skills and experience' section of an application to work in a school. I really do hate doing things like this because it takes flipping ages.
Mine blocked GCSE Bitesize for a fortnight in year 11. In terms of being absolutely bloody useless, that's the marker you need to hit
^ Haha. That's helpful... It was kinda odd some of the websites school blocked. I'm transcribing a radio comedy and it's tedious work. Pausing, typing, rewinding, typing and repeat 497598 times. It's only available for another hour and forty minutes so I've got to do it all now. Sighhh, this better actually be useful for the essay I need to write.
I really need to have lunch before I get back onto cleaning out my room. I also really need to clear so many surfaces and shelves of detritus. This is a nightmare...
