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Thread #25235   Message #296368
Posted By: Crazy Eddie
13-Sep-00 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mangling the English Language
Subject: RE: BS: Mangling the English Language
Johnny in Oklahoma City, Last of the summer wine is based in rural Yorkshire. That's pretty far north in England, but still a fair bit from the Scottish Border.
One of the actors is also the voice of Wallace in the "Wallace & Grommit" animated films. If you haven't heard of Wallace & Grommit, you probably have heard of "Chicken Run" by the same animators.

For more of the Yorkshire dialect get any book by James Herriot, who was a vet (= aninal doctor, not military) there for many years.
The (alleged) motto of Yorkshire folk is
"Hear all, see all, say nowt'
"Eat all, drink all, pay nowt'
And if tha ever do owt' for nowt'
Do it for thysen." Eddie (Running for cover):o)