Gary Manuel Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 Yep, we are agreed that Pall Mall is spelt wrong. It should be spelt Pal Mal as it would have been if it was in Huddersfield. Although I guess the locals may have had a different nickname for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 You are welcome to spell your names any way you feel fit in Huddersfield! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil McCavity Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Posted by Gary Manuel on 19/01/2021 23:21:08: Yep, we are agreed that Pall Mall is spelt wrong. It should be spelt Pal Mal as it would have been if it was in Huddersfield. Although I guess the locals may have had a different nickname for it. Oddly enough, the locals here have another name and spelling for Huddersfield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cooper Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 I was in Norfolk many years ago, and one of the natives, - with a heavy, local accent - babbled some incomprehensible words to me which ended in "notch". . I hadn't got a clue what he was saying. After a while, a translater was found, and it turned out that the chap was apparently asking if I had been to Norwich (notch). It was English but in another language. . . . . eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ovenden Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 The way words are written has little to do with how they are pronounced - no matter which part of the country you are in. English is full of exceptions and inconsistencies. Where is the logic in the way these words are pronounced. though thought through tough cough bough bought Edited By David Ovenden on 20/01/2021 05:53:19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Skilbeck Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Years ago when I worked in the North Sea oil business, I took an American colleague on his first offshore visit, during which we made a visit to the tea room which was on tea break. Afterwards he expressed surprise on how many foreigners were employed offshore, it was full of Geordies, Scoscers, Glaswegians etc and he hadn't understood a word! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel R Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Posted by Martin Harris - Moderator on 19/01/2021 21:50:17: My dad would have reckoned all of us were northerners - he was from Portsmouth... Anything the far side of the South Downs is Northern. I hail from Southampton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 We should all speak standard English - just like the BBC newsreaders used to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tee Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 I love the way my nephews and nieces speak with their dialects. They all live around Duley and Tipton in the Black Country ( Birmingham to the uneducated) while Ilive in Sussex. I always say I would love to have a regional accent like them, but to them I have. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Dell Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Posted by Brian Cooper on 19/01/2021 21:04:35: I saw the title to this thread and immediately thought it was going to be about comical alien creatures from another world, making mashed potato. I blame Cadbury's...... I think it is Brian 😳🤪🤭😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Manuel Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 I think you are right. I always thought that the Smash ad was really about Southerners who had visited the North and discovered the locals making proper mashed potatoes. Note the way that the leader starts "On your Laaarst trip... Classic. Advertising at its best. Edited By Gary Manuel on 20/01/2021 12:22:18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 You may well be right Gary. The Smash ads are something that I think we can all agree were absolute [or should that be spelt "ebsohleeute", kc?] classics. Edited By Martin Harris - Moderator on 20/01/2021 13:03:46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil McCavity Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Posted by Gary Manuel on 20/01/2021 12:16:32: I think you are right. I always thought that the Smash ad was really about Southerners who had visited the North and discovered the locals making proper mashed potatoes. Note the way that the leader starts "On your Laaarst trip... Edited By Gary Manuel on 20/01/2021 12:22:18 Pie and mash made with real potato has long been a popular, local dish amongst the working class down here without any help from North thanks. Jump on a train, expand your horizon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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