Margaret said:
>>At grammar school we had an English teacher (from the south) who said that all Derbyshire people were born with a "plum" in their mouths, i.e. spoke with a broad "u", and it was her mission in life to iron this broad (i.e. northern) sound from our speech. I think she succeeded with some of us.<<
Hi Margaret, as an ex Derby and Bonsall laddie, who has spent the last 40 years in the south, your teacher would have failed in her mission with me!
Eck lassie. A suff is still a suff, even if the mining historians down here in North Devon do not understand me.
I went to Derby Central Technical Grammer School in Darley Park. Where were you - Parkfield Cedars?
Trevor
http://www.cmsmrps.org.uk - a community archaeology initiative.
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