[Closed] Why do English people do that?

scotroutes - Member

Depends if you're Russian

Gosh! school history lesson comes flooding back

If the writer had been in Scotland at the time of writing I'm sure they would have written with appropriate relativism.

how do you pronounce Ae anyway?
is it ay-ee (this is how it sounds in my head)
or is it ee?
or aye?

Eh?

matt_outandabout - Member
What if you are coming from Northern Ireland or Ireland? It is more than 30 miles.

Shall we get wee Eck to have a debate in Holyrood 🙄

Eh?

Eh Forest.
interesting.

'A'
As in 'May', without the M.

I can't believe I wasted 2 minutes of my life reading this thread!

I can't believe I wasted 2 [s]minutes [/s] seconds of my life reading this [s]thread![/s] post

If the writer had been in Scotland at the time of writing I'm sure they would have written with appropriate relativism.

Where the **** is Berwick? Or for that matter Carlisle?

Are we humouring the provincials again?

they are so far away you cannot see them from any corner of your estate

I can't believe I wasted 2 minutes of my life reading this thread!

Will you come back though, to see if people respond to your post? Little bit more time wasted eh? Not that you'd admit to coming back and reading this post...

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Eh Forest.
interesting.

"Where are you going today?"
[i]"I'm off to Ae Forest"[/i]
"Yes - but which one?"

Depends on the context surely?

If they are writing from a personal perspective then it's is perfectly fine. e.g.:
[i]"For our next trip we headed to Ae Forest, just over the border in Scotland."[/i]

But if it is an impersonal perspective, making a assumption about where the [b]reader[/b] is e.g.:
[i]"Where To Ride This Month: try Ae Forest, just over the border in Scotland."[/i]

then I completely understand the OP's irritation (though I fully expect those just over the border in England to dismiss it as small country syndrome).

Eh Forest

It's in Liverpool?

Will you come back though, to see if people respond to your post? Little bit more time wasted eh? Not that you'd admit to coming back and reading this post...

No way, never catch me doing that. 😳

I'm just over the border in Wales and every now and again I nip back over the boreder to England.

Oh dear god.

Going for a camping break in North Wales tomorrow. Long drive though.
From just over the border in the Borders we will be heading over the border continuing to our destination just over the border. Great stuff.

This is now bordering on complete madness

This thread is now bordering on the ridiculous 😀

Damn beaten to it....

Seriously. Do you really think this is just an English thing? Most journos write the story as it appears to them. There is an awful lot of 'just along the M4' type of writing. It is a natural thing to do & most people write that way.

Do you really think this is just an English thing?

I think the OP is a bit sensitive.

eskay - Member
Do you really think this is just an English thing?
I think the OP is a bit sensitive.

He's showing signs of borderline sensitivity

Is the OP Scottish? Is it one of those English/Scottish hate things?

Utter barstads

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Food-and-drink/Food-Focus/The-great-British-menu-20130924135645.htm

just across the border in Suffolk

Where will it end

Is the OP Scottish? Is it one of those English/Scottish hate things?

Yeah. The Scottish* [i]hate[/i] it when UK media assumes they are English.

I'd imagine if the same media constantly assumed that everyone was Scottish it would likewise annoy the English*

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* (and Welsh and Northern Irish)**

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** (who probably also hate being put in footnotes as an afterthought)

Is the OP Scottish? Is it one of those English/Scottish hate things?

we've all been thinking it.......

only if you are english

It is a little tiny thing. But, it's a little tiny thing that the [i]uk[/i] media does pretty much all the time. So that can get a little tiresome.

Saying it's in D&G won't work for ignerant suvverners, these are the people who call everything above the watford gap "the north" after all.

Where will it end

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only if you are [s]english[/s] a tinsy bit up tight

Ah, an Ausie playing a jock in a film mostly filmed in Ireland

Gretna ??

Gretna gateway outlet village to be precise.

twoniner - Member

Ah, an Ausie playing a jock in a film mostly filmed in Ireland

Yes, it's the "playing a jock" bit that's relevant.

The rest is about funding and tax breaks

And arses.

CountZero - Member

When it's at least a hundred miles north, it's the north, innit. Same as everything at least a hundred miles to the east is the east. And places that are at least a hundred miles to the south and south-west, well, you get the gist.
Really!

Funnilly enough, it's still the north when they're in it. And 100 miles to the south? That's the north too. And the east? That's also the north. And the north? Well, that's the north too.

Ugh, just read this and it's driven me to drink. I guess I've become a borderline alcoholic.

It could have been more factually correct by stating that it's in the north west of Britain.

Is that small-country-syndrome-agnostic enough for you?

What annoys and amuses me about the london-centric media is the descriptions of people who call into the radio or email a website:

Ed from Sheffield
Daisy from Bristol
Rob from Brixton
Dave from North-east Hammersmith
Brian from Scotland
Julie from Wales

Why not Ed, Dave etc from England and Brian from Pitlochry?

It's a bit like talking to americans: where are you from? Scotland? Oh, I love Europe! Are you near Paris?

What UK magazine was this in anyway?
Perhaps it's an English mag available in Scotland? Dunno.

Ed from Sheffield
Daisy from Bristol
Rob from Brixton
Dave from North-east Hammersmith
Brian from Scotland
Julie from Wales

Why not Ed, Dave etc from England and Brian from Pitlochry?

I've never even heard of Pitlochry, but I have heard of Sheffield, Bristol, Brixton, Hammersmith, and Scotland, and have a rough idea where they are. I suspect that applies to most people in the UK.

EDIT : To be fair I'm not entirely sure where Sheffield is, it's a bit north for me, but I definitely have a rough idea where Scotland is.