Only for the english

Is that a trick answer?

Carlisle used to be Berwick?

Other way around.

I don’t think there is a border ‘in Scotland’, perhaps at the edge of 🙂

Is that a trick answer?

Only if you are english

here all night etc

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

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.

84mls from Cairnryan 😉
http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/classic/planner_places_redirect.jsp

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 minutes seconds of my life reading this thread! post

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

Seen the lakes described as just over the border in England recently then Molly?

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…

“Where are you going today?”
“I’m off to Ae Forest”
“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.:
“For our next trip we headed to Ae Forest, just over the border in Scotland.”

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

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* hate 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 uk 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.

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! 🙄

Where will it end

Gretna ??

only if you are english a tinsy bit up tight