accents

[threebikesmcginty]

..,if you heard me talking you'd think bloody hell it's Peter Kay.

Are you really unfunny then?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

No, but I find I have to speak slower for the English, the Welsh are fine as are the Scots

 

[mcshroom]

actually, Brum is far south of centre... the true midlands of Britain and the UK is up here in Lancashire... sorry.

Sorry but nothing like far enough North. Try Haltwhistle in Northumberland.

 

[MontyVeda]

Sorry but nothing like far enough North. Try Haltwhistle in Northumberland.

from wikipedia:

For centuries Meriden, to the west of Coventry, West Midlands, held the claim to be the geographical centre of England, and there has been a stone cross there commemorating the claim for at least 500 years. The justification is that the point farthest from the sea is in the vicinity of Meriden. A rival claim for the true location of the centre of England is made by the site of a tree, the Midland Oak, situated on the boundary between Lillington and Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Morton, Derbyshire also claims to be the centre of England as it is not only midway along England's longest north - south axis but also midway between the East Coast and the Welsh border. The town of Haltwhistle in Northumberland (NY706640) sports banners stating that it is the 'Centre of Britain'. By another calculation the centre can also be said to be Dunsop Bridge, Lancashire (previously in the West Riding of Yorkshire), 71 miles (114 km) to the south.

Schiehallion, a mountain in Perthshire, is sometimes described as the centre of Scotland.

However, 2002 studies by the Ordnance Survey pinpointed the centres more precisely, and it is their results that are quoted here.

Great Britain

• Whitendale Hanging Stones, near Brennand Farm, outside Dunsop Bridge, Lancashire in the Forest of Bowland.(
  
  54°0′13.176″N 2°32′52.278″W; grid reference SD6418856541) [2]

Great Britain (excluding islands)

• A field south of Calderstones Partnership NHS Mental Health Trust, near Whalley, Lancashire (grid reference SD7232136671)[3]

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

• Near the junction of Fenham Carr Lane and Wyresdale Road one mile south east of the city of Lancaster and close to the Ashton Memorial . (
  
  54°02′41″N 2°46′46″W ; grid reference SD4901460926)[8]

 

[PaulSecteur]

Proper yam-yam here.

Not brummie, proper yam-yam.

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 2694208, member: 45"]Coventry can't be the centre. They say 'batch' for 'roll'.[/quote]
fools... everybody knows it's a bun

 

[RedRider]

Whoever heard of a 'batch in the hay'?

It's a barm cake btw

 

[smokeysmoo]

Whoever heard of a 'batch in the hay'?

It's a barm cake btw

Yup

If you go over t'hill from me and into Darwen and Blackburn it becomes a T Cake, freaks!

 

[RedRider]

Yup

If you go over t'hill from me and into Darwen and Blackburn it becomes a T Cake, freaks!

I made a big fuss in a Leeds chippy one time over trying this exotic local delicacy, 'bread cake'. Imagine my disappointment!

 

[Cush]

Not going to get in to any silly arguments. EVERY ONE KNOWS THAT THE ONLY TRUE BRITISH ACCENT IS THE ONE SPOKEN IN THE TYNE VALLEY AND THAT THE CENTER OF BRITAIN BY ROAD OR OTHERWISE IS HALTWHISTLE . So noo thaa knows Marrar.

 

[London Female]

Not at all, i thought i had a London accent (born and bought up in Blackheath ) but somebody last week said i had a sussex accent !! strange as i lived in Kent LOL

I was born not far from you, Forest Hill, lived there until I was 25. Recently I was told I had an Australian accent

 

[ComedyPilot]

Well my house is about 335 miles from Lands end, and 337 miles from John O Groats. So East Yorkshire is actually the midlands.

 

[MontyVeda]

 

[ComedyPilot]

Put the nunchucks down and get your tape measure out.

How far to the nearest mile are you from the two aforementioned geographical points?

 

[MontyVeda]

Put the nunchucks down and get your tape measure out.

How far to the nearest mile are you from the two aforementioned geographical points?

wikipedia says I'm closer than you... but if you insist, I'll put the nunchucks down...