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It is on the BBC web site so I assume it is lounge safe:-O Backside firework prank backfires http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stm
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
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It is on the BBC web site so I assume it is lounge safe:-O Backside firework prank backfires http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stm
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
methane. heh :) OT: how do you UKers pronounce "Monkwearmouth" ?
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methane. heh :) OT: how do you UKers pronounce "Monkwearmouth" ?
I'd say "Monk-Wear-Mouth" (but Geordie pronunciations often scupper me) We've got colourful place names around here (the North East of England), most of which I get wrong, and end up being corrected by the locals Try these for size:
- Middlesbrough (the biggest of the places I'll list)
- Pontiland
- Camois
- Lynemouth
- Morpeth (I've always thought that this sounds like somewhere in Mordor)
- Alnwick
- Bamburgh
[edit] PS: Video here[^] [/edit]
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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methane. heh :) OT: how do you UKers pronounce "Monkwearmouth" ?
It depends! On which part of the UK you are from! I assume this in Sunderland, therefore a Geordie dialect would be used. So it would be something like mank weer moth No doubt a Geordie will put me right.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
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It is on the BBC web site so I assume it is lounge safe:-O Backside firework prank backfires http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stm
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"This incident is very concerning but hopefully an isolated one."I hope so, or the human race is doomed!!_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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It is on the BBC web site so I assume it is lounge safe:-O Backside firework prank backfires http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stm
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
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I'd say "Monk-Wear-Mouth" (but Geordie pronunciations often scupper me) We've got colourful place names around here (the North East of England), most of which I get wrong, and end up being corrected by the locals Try these for size:
- Middlesbrough (the biggest of the places I'll list)
- Pontiland
- Camois
- Lynemouth
- Morpeth (I've always thought that this sounds like somewhere in Mordor)
- Alnwick
- Bamburgh
[edit] PS: Video here[^] [/edit]
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
The 'wear' in Monkwearmouth is pronounced 'wee-er'. 'Wear' is the name of the local river. Monkwearmouth is part of the Sunderland area, and the locals are know as 'Mackams'. People in the rest of the north east tend to laugh at mackams for their stupidity. This news report demonstrates why.:laugh:
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
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Not everyone goes to the SoapBox. The idea of being tarred and feathered for fun just doesn't appeal to everyone. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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It depends! On which part of the UK you are from! I assume this in Sunderland, therefore a Geordie dialect would be used. So it would be something like mank weer moth No doubt a Geordie will put me right.
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
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It is on the BBC web site so I assume it is lounge safe:-O Backside firework prank backfires http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stm
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
It's idiots like this who give the region I live in a bad name. Either his boss threatened to put a firework up his ... or, as has been suggested in a local paper today, he thought it was B*mfire night.
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I'd say "Monk-Wear-Mouth" (but Geordie pronunciations often scupper me) We've got colourful place names around here (the North East of England), most of which I get wrong, and end up being corrected by the locals Try these for size:
- Middlesbrough (the biggest of the places I'll list)
- Pontiland
- Camois
- Lynemouth
- Morpeth (I've always thought that this sounds like somewhere in Mordor)
- Alnwick
- Bamburgh
[edit] PS: Video here[^] [/edit]
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
Monkwearmouth isn't Geordie - it's Mackem.:-D It is pronounced Monk as in member of monastery, Wear as in the name of the river and Mouth as in talk out of. Pontiland is actually spelled Ponteland. You missed out Alnmouth, Pity Me, Noplace. For those who don't know, Alnwick was one of the places where scenes in the Harry Potter films were filmed. Anything that looked like it was filmed in cloisters was filmed at Durham Cathedral - widely thought by architects to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I'm from Middlesbrough (near enough), and I think the phonetic spelling of a Geordie pronunciation would be something like munk-wee-ar-mooth.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
hmmph. i was hoping for something like 'Mannwoth'
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hmmph. i was hoping for something like 'Mannwoth'
If you want something like that, you're better off with Jarrow which is pronounced Jarra.
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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The 'wear' in Monkwearmouth is pronounced 'wee-er'. 'Wear' is the name of the local river. Monkwearmouth is part of the Sunderland area, and the locals are know as 'Mackams'. People in the rest of the north east tend to laugh at mackams for their stupidity. This news report demonstrates why.:laugh:
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
ROFL:laugh:
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I'm from Middlesbrough (near enough), and I think the phonetic spelling of a Geordie pronunciation would be something like munk-wee-ar-mooth.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
I think the Geordie accent is superb, phonetic spelling just does not do justice to it. Mind you I have real problems understanding it!
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
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I think the Geordie accent is superb, phonetic spelling just does not do justice to it. Mind you I have real problems understanding it!
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
Nah, it's reet easy bonnie lad. Yer jus havta nar hoo ta pranuns yer vowls thar pet. As an example: Areet - pronounced Aah reet. Means OK or all right. Boat - prounounced burt. A sea faring vessel. Also, don't forget that every letter in Geordie is made up of two consonants: A becomes Ayuh B becomes Beyuh And so on.
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I'm from Middlesbrough (near enough), and I think the phonetic spelling of a Geordie pronunciation would be something like munk-wee-ar-mooth.
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
Damn close (I'm from Bishop, BTW).
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Nah, it's reet easy bonnie lad. Yer jus havta nar hoo ta pranuns yer vowls thar pet. As an example: Areet - pronounced Aah reet. Means OK or all right. Boat - prounounced burt. A sea faring vessel. Also, don't forget that every letter in Geordie is made up of two consonants: A becomes Ayuh B becomes Beyuh And so on.
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
LOL! :laugh:
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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It's idiots like this who give the region I live in a bad name. Either his boss threatened to put a firework up his ... or, as has been suggested in a local paper today, he thought it was B*mfire night.
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world." Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that." Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
I totally agree. The North East deserves better than to have morons like that in the region.
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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hmmph. i was hoping for something like 'Mannwoth'
I was hoping for something like "ManMonth" :laugh:
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