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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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.

Yarp!

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire


"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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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

We appen to Chuffin Love Proper Yorkshire folks..

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

As a born and bred Derby man, ma mother was from Hull. Does that mean I'm half Yorkshire or East Riding

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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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By *its_n_piecesCouple
over a year ago

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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By *ool11Man
over a year ago

st annes

Yorkshire born, Yorkshire breed.

Thick in't arm, thick in't head

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By *ildt123Man
over a year ago

Huddersfield

Tha can allus tell a Yorkshireman

Tha just can't tell 'im much

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