North, South, West & East Yorkshire (none of that humberside bollocks thank you) are already an independent state, it's just that the rest of you hav'nt figured it out yet. Crazy Harry--proud Yorkshireman doing missionary work in the midlands.
you cant wonder at the northern monkeys getting a few medels after all the training swinging around the dales looking for nuts. they probably didnt realize they were in a contest no less than a dog at crufts; simply did it for a treat at the end-thats why they have a pic with their medel in their mouths cos they think its a chocolate coin! Il help u all out; being from Nar-rich in Nar-forc which be ar royt noyc ci-ey, oi car-nt rur-eed nor ryte bot oi can droyve me tra-or and a do-ca-e. moi brov-or is me marth-ors oncal and me fiet ah webbed to me ands. whot els oh yea moi ed is pont-e. oi luv Nar-rich ci-ey footborl clob `lets be avin yea`
Hmmm I worry sometimes! Education must be so much better up north.....punctuation and spelling can't be on the syllabus in Norwich! Thank god it's fields that need ploughing by the under educated down there and not anything complicated! :wink:
I dont plough fields only women. And I didnt realize this was a forum on grammer. If it is then there isnt a thread on this site that would pass english SATS. Unless anyone is an English teacher im fairly confident that we all are guilty of some errors. dis aint a job intavue so il rite how i lik :tongue:
As a Norfolk boy all my life ( 50 years ), it pains me to read these mickey taking threads ( not ), I was grammar school educated ( didn't do me any favours ), was just starting to feel good about my county and then what..... Delia bloody Smith goes and spoils it all....sob,sob,sob!
Move with the times partner In the past, English teachers used to preach that one should never start a sentence with conjunctions like and or but. Does this rule still apply today? Not entirely. It is already acceptable to start sentences with such conjunctions. Some authorities, in fact, even defend that for some cases conjunctions will do a better job than more formal constructions. Here is a quotation from Ernest Gowers addressing the usage of and on the beginning of sentences: That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with and is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
In the defence of XxAnthxX Conjunctions - Oxford Dictionaries Online And don't get me going about American spelling creeping into English grammar.
Spelling and Grammar are two different things, a sentence can be grammatically correct but poorly spelled similarly the spelling could be beyond reproach but the construction of the piece could be incorrect.
Back on topic however.... If Yorkshire was a country ......... they'd be completely bloody intolerable :tongue:
Anyone would think I was actually from yorkshire, but alas I'm not. My quip was actually with the punctuation or lack of and spelling, not the grammar, all be it tongue in cheek, as I myself am not particularly well educated either. :wink: Had I been educated well, I'd be the one with the law degree not my offspring.
I blame President Theodore Roosevelt - it was he who encouraged the change to "rational" (i.e. daft) spellings in America.
