General Chat

Well time for me to go, need to catch up on FB lol

Hi Berona when you arrive :)

Good night all on topper's

Enjoy your day Sue, have fun in the garden centre.

~~~~~~~ to all other's

Diane

Hello Sandie ....I'm not going to even attempt to spell out that name ....lol...we went past that town when we had our family holiday earlier this year . Anglesey is a beautiful place .

Well I'm off to bed now ( and I will be logging off Facebook to ...lol ) ,

Enjoy the garden centre Sue , such joy to be in the Spring of your year : )

Night everyone , good day to you others .

Signing off on here, going onto the laptop~~

Goodnight Amanda ~~and Diane~~~
Have a good night's sleep:))

Goodnight Diane,
sleep well (eventually) keep warm,
Tec..

Linda - Why are Geordies called Geordies?

Tec.

Goodnight Amanda,
sleep well - keep warm it's a cold night,
Tec.

Good night Diane

This is a tourist town Amanda,so there are lots of shops selling things tourists wants, so it will be difficult to sell more, unless we stop giving out all the leaflets etc as we will be in a smaller space. In any case, it is helping the tourists which we want to do, we didn't volunteer to be shop assistants

Goodnight Amanda,

I don't know Tec, but I will have a quick google

From Wikepedia

A number of rival theories explain how the term came about, though all accept that it derives from a familiar diminutive form of the name George,[5] which was once the most popular name for eldest sons in the north-east of England.[6]

One explanation is that it was established during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Jacobites declared that the natives of Newcastle were staunch supporters of the Hanoverian kings, in particular of George II during the 1745 rebellion. This contrasted with rural Northumbria, which largely supported the Jacobite cause. If true, the term may have derived from the popular anti-Hanoverian song "Cam ye O'er Frae France?",[7] which calls the first Hanoverian king "Geordie Whelps", meaning "George the Guelph".

Another explanation for the name is that local miners in the north east of England used "Geordie" safety lamps, designed by George Stephenson[8] in 1815, rather than the "Davy lamps" designed by Humphry Davy which were used in other mining communities.

Thank you Linda - that is interesting, and thanks for going to the trouble, I have often wondered about it. Now I know.

Well I'm off to bed, heating is off and I'm freezing.
Goodnight Linda, and Sandie and all Poms,
Enjoy your day Down Under,

Goodnight,
Tec.

I am of to bed as well, i have to be up early in the morning.

sleep well up top and have a lovely time at the garden centre Sue.

Goodnight Linda~~
Sleep well:)


Nos da Tec~~
You'll have to cwtch up to the Duchess to keep warm:)
Hubby's already gone to bed, when I get there he will have warmed it up like an electric blanket .lol

Sandie'x

Tec and Linda - you saw me coming, didn't you?
Well, goodnight and sleep well. Talk to you later.
Diane - I wasn't questioning what you said - just noticing that it was already late when you left this thread and yet, half an hour later - there you were, still going strong! I don't know where you get the energy.

On my first trip, my friend and I found ourselves at a bus terminus in Edinburgh and I politely asked the gentleman standing nearby when we would get a bus (not quite sure where we were going). He was wearing a uniform and appeared to be going home after his shift, so I assumed him to be an employee of the bus company. Wrong.

He answered me with a smile - but I didn't understand one word of what he said, so I begged his pardon. He repeated what he had said (at least I think he did). I still didn't understand a word.'

I found myself apologising and saying I still hadn't got it, so he said it again. Oh dear! I still didn't understand. I wasn't game to ask again, but he could see I still didn't understand him, so he said it again, this time taking about three seconds to say each word......"I dinna know Lassie - y'see, I'm the postman!".

Lol Berona and good day to you~~
Hope your'e well today;)

I saw Colin on a thread and was going to post on here to him,he sounds a bit down, I get days like that, I call them the blues:(
Felt a bit like that this morning,and then someone posted on Gr and insenced me and many others.
He referred to 'little students' doing obscure Uni degrees and being a drain on society.
It made my blood boil as we paid for my 2 to go to Uni with no help from the Government,and they both worked whilst there and have never claimed any benfitss,quite a few others joined in the spat, I'm not usually confrontational but he put up 2 similar threads and then after a few more digs at pensioners left the thread and then deleted.
To cut a story I could make even longer short, the little spat wound me up at the time but them I felt better for it.
I can enjoy a fiesty debate..get it from my dad .lol

As you can see we've had quite a chat about different uk accents and dialects.
I find Glaswegians hard to understand and some North Englanders.
I love the soft Irish lilt and the Scottish accent,just some Glaswegians and fast speaking Irish I have trouble with.

I must go and have a look at the other threads. I don't have any problem understanding Billy Connolly!
And I enjoy Taggart very much. I just wish they would smile a bit more!

Same as me I 'thread hop'
I've got 2 shirts to iron, then I'm going to my comfy bed:)

Good night~~~

Have the rest of a good day:))

Sandie.x

Interesting about the origin of Geordie. We do not have marked regional accents in Australia, but in general country people speak more slowly and more of a drawl I think.
There are three general accents in use- broad (G'daaay maaate a a certain ex prime minister), Educated and affected (e.g. a certain ex foreign minister who came from Adelaide and was partly educated in England)
I can usually tell an Australian from a kiwi, with the clipped vowels.
I can often pick a person from Adelaide as they generally pronounce the a in dance, chance etc as ah - dahnce etc.
I can often pick a Queenslander but I think it is more regional vocabulary rather than accent. I believe Western Australia and Perth in particular are developing a new sound.

As for speaking other languages, I "did" French at School to the equivalent of A levels and Latin to O level, and still have a smattering, but the courses in later years was more for reading literature rather than for conversation. Apart from that I only speak English and a smattering of Bahasa (Indonesian).
It is a shame that tourism is not treated with more seriousness. Sydney of course has the opera house and the harbour, but there are many attraction in the older buildings. Many are the golden brown sandstone found locally, and date from the Georgian and Victorian periods. Wrought iron lacework is also a feature. The Town Hall recently reopened after major refurbishment. I worked there early in the process when they were removing hazardous materials, and Denise was on a group public tour last week. She has seen things I haven't like the Lord Mayor's office (Mrs Lord Mayor actually).
I also used to watch Taggart. And The Bill, which has just finished in Australia, a few months behind the U.K. I must admit I do find some of the accents on that a bit challenging.
"Lassie I'm the postman" really made me smile Berona.
Off to have dinner/tea now, but will look in later.
Colin

Hello thread:-))

Sandie, I was also reading that thread you mentioned from last night/this morning your time, I saw your post:-)
The man's a numpty, I also got very angry at some of the things he was saying, attacking a 70 year old!!
What the person doesn't realize is, most of the people on these boards are a lot more intelligent than he gives them credit for, he should be ignored:-)) I do understand why you were upset by his thread, though:-))

Well, today I went for a job interview. I was a bit nervous at first, I soon settled and felt I went ok:-)) I will find out if I was successful Friday week:-))

It was another beautiful day here today, I hope it lasts!!

Carole xx

Good morning everyone.
I too find some northern accents impossible. My god parents lived in Northumberland, high up the the Tyne Valley. The accent there rolls the letter R. I found it just about impossible to understand what my great uncle was saying.

Hello Carole, I hope you get the job, we will all have to keep everything crossed for you.
I am waiting for a joiner to appear, he is already late,so I may disappear mid flow.

Hi Linda

Whats a joiner?