Re: Olden day good times!

by Fangirl Three Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:16 am

Almost as random as the photos of Gandalf in Rochdale or Burnley or wherever it was.

by Nightjar Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:47 pm

1939...

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:53 pm

Is that a real panda? scared

by Nightjar Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:02 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:15 pm

Is that the Post Office Tower?

by Nightjar Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:16 pm

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5215282,-0.1383656,181a,35y,159.02h,79.04t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

by Butterfield Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:09 am

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:43 am

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:43 am

I hope it doesn't catch on here. scared

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:14 pm

I'm hip, daddio.

by Butterfield Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:18 pm

From 5:55 they all sound like proper (East) Midlanders, despite being from what I consider to be "on the way to London Northampton".

I wonder if a Northampton accent has become more southern since then. I don't remember Jo Whiley talking like that.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:25 pm

Don't think she's your typical cobbler

by Butterfield Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:38 pm

Listening carefully I did actually pick up on a few non-southern ways of pronouncing words there. "Garrij" for garage for a start.

But she called net curtains "voiles". aristojar

by Fangirl Three Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:59 am

I'm very southern and I've never pronounced garage in any other way than garrij.

Indeed we found the posh version very amusing. 'Can you manahge to put the carriahge in the garahge,' we'd say.

by Butterfield Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:03 pm

I've always thought "garrij" was a more Midlands/Northern thing.

Maybe it's like "scone", where there are variations even within regions, with even some parts of the North rhyming it with stone.

by Nightjar Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:37 pm

I've always pronounced it "gah-rarge".

The really posh way of pronounce it is "g'rahge" though.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:50 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:41 pm

Butterfield wrote:Maybe it's like "scone", where there are variations even within regions, with even some parts of the North rhyming it with stone.

Nightjar wrote:I've always pronounced it "gah-rarge".

Scone is definitely not pronounced, "gar-rarge." Colbert

by Nightjar Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:43 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Scone is definitely not pronounced, "gar-rarge."

And neither is "garage". Colbert

by Fangirl Three Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:13 am

If this was reddit someone would have shown up by now to post that they've always called scones gah-rahges, and how that's part of their proud Midlands-American heritage.

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