Has it got boring?

Hi*Faye*not sure where you come from or have moved to but Newcassel is probably the closest to the correct pronunciation.

Where we lived in Australia was called Melbun but the one just over the Derbyshire border is called Melborn! When it first opened in Australia we bought furniture in Ickear but now we buy meatballs in Eyekear.

Grannyknot

JessM It is Dun-ee-din up here in Edinburgh too - odd because the E in Edinburgh is short, and Dunedin is another name for Auld Reekie. Same chap Edin/Edwin (or however they spelt it back then) and a dun is a fort on a hill.

Jess, bank rhymes with frank
And to you I'd give thanks
That no awful rhyme
Spoiled this thread all sublime

It has a bit boring of late but thanks to all ^^up there, who have given me a real larff!

Where I come from it is Newcarsl, but where I have moved to it is pronounced Newcassel.

My Tasmanian SIL gets annoyed because I pronounce Lego as laygo. It has only one g and that is how it is pronounced in Adelaide. He does go on and on about it and even contacted Lego headquarters to ask them how they pronounce it.

gillybob where I come from - south wales, it will be Newcarsl for ever.
My Gran would say she had been " Bard in bed with the doctor" for instance.
The hard "a" thing is also rare in the south and west of England and kicks in somewhere north of Nuneaton I think.
But more variety in accents among the newreaders would be welcome - a touch of brummie would be a compromise between northern and southern tastes maybe?
(Mind you there is a bit of a S. Welsh thing going on in BBC news Hugh, Humphries etc so it is not all down to the southern english and their reprehensible lack of hard "a"s)

I got in a complete pickle in NZ with the pronounciation of Dunedin... dune din? maybe dunnadeen? Apparently its dunned in with the emphasis on the e.
And as for Tauronga - there are so many ways for me to get that wrong it is a standing joke.

Mice and GK sunflower

Hmm Sunflowersuffolk I am glad it wasn't "your own work" as whoever wrote it clearly cannot pronounce Newcastle.

Why do newsreaders in particular insist in popping in the "r" giving a "car" sound in the middle when it is an "a" as in "apple" ?

Sorry my pet hate.

Not my own work I must confess :-

There was a young man from Newcastle,
Who could wrap himself up like a parcel,
And in that position, He did a rendition,
Of God Save the Queen through his a****ole

Sometimes thrilling
sometimes dire
sometimes funny
sometimes mired
in controversy.
Mostly charming, distracting
and even surprising.
Pick 'n mix.
Just like life, really.

We definitely should start a "best of gransnet verse" and cut and paste our favourites onto it.

Old Gran she was a netter
And dwelt in cyberspace
Her bed was cold through lack o'use
A wild and lonely place.
Her food was oft a tiny bite
Her drink a small Merlot
Snatched between her typing time
Ignoring mess below
As words of wisdom
Flowing fast
Poured from her active mind
To offer solace, warmth and love
To those who were confined
By circumstances sad and hard
Or one of life's bad chances,
And cheer the lonely or the jarred
By many cheerful fancies.

Brilliant, a slightly belated little Davids Day poetry eisteddfod. So many bardic offerings. for number in particular. And, if you want them, some flowing robes, a crown of oak leaves and someone talking Welsh and waving a sword around.
merlot often deleted threads are spammers who come in the night and starts threads on which they post inappropriate links or adverts and then get reported in the morning.
I don't think i better start versifying this morning. What rhymes with frank i thought.... best to stop there Jess.

Well he does do bums and tums – so brace yourselves ladies.

#howexciting

Franks mooning???

#thingsarelookingup

this sort

Night night.

just a different one. with a different meaning.

(l)

That's a moon.

[MOON]

I must admit I find the recent rash of deleted of threads a bit tiresome. I don't get much time to look in during the day and by the time I log in at tea time there's a red note saying a thread has been deleted. BUMMER! I have no idea what's happened.

Shall we all sign off?

Morning!