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over a year ago
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Yesterday evening I went to Harrogate for a Q&A with Bill Bryson following the publication of his latest book.
He made the following comment about people from Yorkshire :
'If you ever want to know about your shortcomings, they are always more than helpful' 
Later in the evening he went on to say as a nation, he believes we are losing local and regional identity and becoming more and more similar.
Do you believe regional identity still exists or do you believe it is now no more than stereotype ? |
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"Yesterday evening I went to Harrogate for a Q&A with Bill Bryson following the publication of his latest book.
He made the following comment about people from Yorkshire :
'If you ever want to know about your shortcomings, they are always more than helpful'
Later in the evening he went on to say as a nation, he believes we are losing local and regional identity and becoming more and more similar.
Do you believe regional identity still exists or do you believe it is now no more than stereotype ?"
I certainly believe that it's more diluted now.
I would say this is far worse down south.
Where everyone is either a mockney or a chav, init!
It's only really as you go West you start to get really strong reagonality. If there is such a word.
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"There was a time when you could go into a local butcher's/baker's and see what the local specialities were (chitterlings, haslet, etc.)
Now it's hard enough to find a local butcher or baker
Mr ddc"
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"There was a time when you could go into a local butcher's/baker's and see what the local specialities were (chitterlings, haslet, etc.)
Now it's hard enough to find a local butcher or baker
Mr ddc"
Head for Lincolnshire then  |
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Coincidentally I've just started reading a bill bryson book.
I'm a southerner living in Yorkshire. I agree with the previous comment. The southern counties no longer have much of an identity. The accents don't vary much either. Northern accents are a lot more recognisable. |
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"There was a time when you could go into a local butcher's/baker's and see what the local specialities were (chitterlings, haslet, etc.)
Now it's hard enough to find a local butcher or baker
Mr ddc
Head for Lincolnshire then "
Are you offering Grantham Gingerbreads?
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I think there are still regional ideosyncracies but it is generational.
As we become more mobile and transient and more influenced by social media and the www, the status quo will change for the majority.
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ydych chi wedi colli eich hunaniaeth ddiwylliannol yn rhywle ar hyd y ffordd? ceisiwch edrych i lawr cefn y soffa
.... on a serious note though, i think he has a point when it comes to the english
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