tornadoes?

hopitus wrote:

and you are in UK? Tornados severe in south USA. In MileHigh here,
we're all about huge longlasting wildfires due to draught weather.
Other areas of USA are suffering massive flooding.
Thank you for your concern


Actually, Tish is in Australia, but the storms have been reported in the
UK too. Purrs for all those affected.
--
Adrian

hopitus wrote:

On Apr 17, 4:00*pm, Adrian wrote:

Actually, Tish is in Australia, but the storms have been reported in the
UK too. Purrs for all those affected.
Adrian

We live and learn. Thanks for educating me that Oz is "UK".

These days you can get an email account pretty much anywhere. The
address usually indicates the location of the person, but not always.
You would think that someone who has an AOL account was in the USA,
but anyone could get one no matter where they are.

I only became aware of fact that Burma is no longer Burma and
neither is Siam Siam

Burma became known to the rest of the world as Myanmar rather recently,
so I wouldn't be surprised that not everyone knows that. But Siam hasn't
been called Siam at least since I was born - which as you know, was not
all that recent an event.

Joyce
--
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living
creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of
worthless human lives. -- Albert Schweitzer

wrote:
hopitus wrote:

On Apr 17, 4:00 pm, Adrian wrote:

Actually, Tish is in Australia, but the storms have been reported in the
UK too. Purrs for all those affected.
Adrian

We live and learn. Thanks for educating me that Oz is "UK".

These days you can get an email account pretty much anywhere. The
address usually indicates the location of the person, but not always.
You would think that someone who has an AOL account was in the USA,
but anyone could get one no matter where they are.

I only became aware of fact that Burma is no longer Burma and
neither is Siam Siam

Burma became known to the rest of the world as Myanmar rather recently,
so I wouldn't be surprised that not everyone knows that. But Siam hasn't
been called Siam at least since I was born - which as you know, was not
all that recent an event.

Joyce



Does anyone remember Mesopotamia? MLB

MLB wrote:

wrote:

Burma became known to the rest of the world as Myanmar rather recently,
so I wouldn't be surprised that not everyone knows that. But Siam hasn't
been called Siam at least since I was born - which as you know, was not
all that recent an event.

Does anyone remember Mesopotamia? MLB

LOL - are you claiming you do?

Joyce

--
Speak your mind even if your voice cracks while you're saying it.

wrote:
MLB wrote:

wrote:

Burma became known to the rest of the world as Myanmar rather recently,
so I wouldn't be surprised that not everyone knows that. But Siam hasn't
been called Siam at least since I was born - which as you know, was not
all that recent an event.

Does anyone remember Mesopotamia? MLB

LOL - are you claiming you do?

Joyce

From the maps we had at school!We also had to learn to spell it. LOL.
MLB

hopitus wrote:

At least, UK they speak something like what we do, but more
regal.

Much as I love to listen to some of the British dialects, I can't think
which of them could be described as "regal." Maybe "The Queen's
English," insofar as it exists anymore, could be so called as a matter
of definition. I would call Billy Connolly's Irish-Glaswegian dialect
heavenly, rather than regal. And the largely unintelligible dialects I
encounter when listening to football broadcasters and analysts I would
characterize as quite the opposite of heavenly -- and certainly not
regal. :-)

By the way, is there a single-word name that the British use to
characterize that particular Glaswegian dialect of Connolly's --
something cognate to "Cockney" or "Geordie"? How about the Lancastrian
dialect with it's intriguing vestigial "the" -- does it have a name? I'd
like to find a map of the UK showing the common-named dialects, as
opposed to showing just the regional names such as "West Country" or
"East Midlands."
--

Wayne M.

"Judith Latham" wrote in message
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In article ,
Wayne Mitchell wrote:
hopitus wrote:

At least, UK they speak something like what we do, but more
regal.

Much as I love to listen to some of the British dialects, I can't think
which of them could be described as "regal." Maybe "The Queen's
English," insofar as it exists anymore, could be so called as a matter
of definition. I would call Billy Connolly's Irish-Glaswegian dialect
heavenly, rather than regal. And the largely unintelligible dialects I
encounter when listening to football broadcasters and analysts I would
characterize as quite the opposite of heavenly -- and certainly not
regal. :-)

By the way, is there a single-word name that the British use to
characterize that particular Glaswegian dialect of Connolly's --
something cognate to "Cockney" or "Geordie"? How about the Lancastrian
dialect with it's intriguing vestigial "the" -- does it have a name? I'd
like to find a map of the UK showing the common-named dialects, as
opposed to showing just the regional names such as "West Country" or
"East Midlands."


I live in an area of England called "The Black Country" this in in the
west Midlands. It is near Birmingham but does not include Birmingham. If
you Google the Town of Dudley, West Mids. you will be in the right area
although in includes the towns of Tipton, Oldbury, West Bromwich, Cradley,
Cradley Heath, Lye, Stourbridge, Brierley Hill Old Hill, Netherton among a
few others. Now, the difficulty with the dialects here is that it's
different if you only travel a couple of miles within the Black Country.
Each town has it's own dialect. when I married I moved from near Olbury to
Lye about 7 miles and I had difficulty understanding the locals. Although
there are so many dialects here, I don't think someone from outside the
area would notice, they would just find us all difficult to understand.
However, people here are upset if anyone says they have a Birmingham
(Brummy) accent as that is very different and much harder than any Black
Country one.

I hope I haven't bored you too much and made you wish you hadn't asked.

Judith

PS. No my accent is not regal.

--
Judith Latham
Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK.

I remember the first time I visited England, I was amazed at the number of
different "English accents". I'm quite sure that there are more different
accents in England than there are in the United States, in spite of the
difference in size of the two countries. Interestingly, I didn't notice a
great deal of difference in accents in different parts of Australia, and I
have visited all four coasts, as well as the middle of the country.

Joy

Joy wrote:

I remember the first time I visited England, I was amazed at the number of
different "English accents". I'm quite sure that there are more different
accents in England than there are in the United States, in spite of the
difference in size of the two countries.

I was surprised to learn that, too, for the same reason. But I think the
difference in *age* of the two countries has more impact on dialects. We
just haven't been around long enough to split off into dialects as much.

Joyce

--
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good
many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

Jack Campin wrote:

It's just "Glaswegian" - the way he speaks is pretty usual for there.
Nothing very Irish about it.

All I have to go on is a half memory of a video I once saw of a Billy
Connolly interview. I took away the impression that some of the
"musicality" of the dialect was to be attributed to the sizable Irish
immigrant population -- though I can't now remember whether this was the
interviewer's contention or Billy's.

--

Wayne M.

wrote:

We just haven't been around long enough to split off into dialects
as much.

I think it's more that we're a nation of wanderers. Over the last few
centuries, people in this country have moved around more than those in
Europe. There are only a few areas in the US where the people who live
in that area now were almost all born there and their parents were born
there. Where you do find such an area, you often do find a local
dialect largely unintelligible to outsiders.

--

Wayne M.