"'You'll never walk alone' has achieved traditional immortality on the football terraces and that's not just a local tradition.
Sorry - am a bit strapped for time at the moment, but surely you don't support the nonsense that the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein song 'You'll Never Walk Alone' has passed into the tradition?
Tradition stretches far beyond mere repetition.
It appears that the term is going down the same pan that 'folk' did.
And had I realised that the suggestion that "Jim is not all that knowledgeable on local traditions in the north" included Scotland my response may have been as jokey as it was.
I really would love to see some of the research that backs up these daft comnclusions some time.
Jim Carroll