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    Dialect Words And More

    in Chat Central

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    While Googling 'Stagey Bank fair, I found references to these sayings our family used to use, Send you to the Knackers Yard, Let's have a gander, Money and Fair Words, How's your belly for spots? Waste not, want not, What does Horace say?

    I found Glakey and Hap (as in hap up the fire before gannen to bed)to be a Bedlington sayings while such as Barrie to be Ashington!

    Miners' Strike

    in Chat Central

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    I'm right and your wrong! it's never that easy, politicians lie! Union leaders mislead! NEVER....

    "The Country at large†were certainly no different from the miners who believed "what their parents told them to believeâ€

    "And, demonising a PM who was doing her very best for the Country at large puts you on completely the wrong side of history.†and when Julie Andrews plays the part I believe we will all be convinced your correct!

    Sting -When The Last Ship Sails

    in Talk of the Town

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    Blyth, Bedlington, Ashington , Newcastle and Morpeth all had very distinctive accents, I always thought it was because of their local industries, farming, mining, ship building and ports and the fact that there was a very little amount of travel in the OLD days.

    Travel, media and the economy has changed all that and the dialects and accents are all being diluted, is it better or worse? who knows but I see such as the u-tube videos are doing a great service preserving it for the future, I wonder if museums are archiving some of it!

    Sting -When The Last Ship Sails

    in Talk of the Town

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    I have to disagree with you Symptoms! Why would you move to another area that talks differently to you and not talk in a way that they can understand what you are saying! communication!

    All of the exiles that I know "ahll taak posh†but still have strong Geordie accents! (or accents of wherever they came from)

    We get a chuckle listening to such as Geordie John Herdman, Canada's ladies soccer coach.

    (Jump in linguist Canny Lass, I'm struggling here)

    Bedlington Terriers.

    in The Sports Club

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    What has happened to the Bedlington Terriers (and Lord Bedlington!) I believe they had a few problems and re-organised the club, and were again quite successful.

     

    I used to enjoy Saturday mornings getting live Twitter game updates for Newcastle, Blyth and Bedlington.

     

    Utility Bills Going Up?

    in The Bedlingtonshire Consumer

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    Privatisation! I was just thinking about when in the 60's when it was decided to build Motorways instead of railways, what should the government be responsible for? During a war the rules will obviously change in the interest of the security of the country as in WWI and WWII, but under normal times what should be Nationalised or regulated/ controlled? the Military of course, The Health Care System? Natural resources? Utilities? the Transportation infrastructure? What should be regionally or locally controlled?

     

    Here in Alberta Utilities were heavily regulated and it worked well, until our Provincial Government decided "in our best interest†to deregulate much of the system, now our utilities (especially electricity) are very expensive, the bills are formed in two parts, consumption and transmission (and written is such a way no one can interpret them!) a case of Government control that was welcome!

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