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2 unusual facts about Northern English


Northern English

East Anglian English, East and West Midlands English, West Country (Somerset, Devon, Cornwall/Cornish) and Southern English.

Ulgham

The name Ulgham is pronounced 'Uffam': ˈʊfəm (locally), ˈʌfəm (RP), and the village is also known as the 'village of the owls'.


The Treacle People

The show was written by Brian (the writer of Dangermouse) and Johnathan Trueman and was based in a fictionalized version of the Northern English village of Sabden, in Pendle, where treacle is (allegedly) a natural resource extracted through mines.


see also

1400s in England

14 September - Battle of Humbleton Hill: Northern English nobles led by Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur) and using longbows decisively defeat a Scottish raiding army and capture their leader, the Earl of Douglas.

Battle of Stamford Bridge

Outside the city they defeated a northern English army led by Edwin, Earl of Mercia and his brother Morcar, Earl of Northumbria at the Battle of Fulford on 20 September.

Blackburn River

The name is a tautology, since "burn" is a Lowland Scots/Northern English word referring to a small river or large brook.

Gloster Gorcock

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, gorcock is a Scottish and Northern English name for the male of the Red Grouse.

Keith Marsh

Born in Blackpool, he is perhaps best known for playing an elderly northern English pub regular named Jacko in the Thames Television sitcom Love Thy Neighbour (1972–76), who had the much-quoted catchphrase "I'll have half!"

L.A. Without a Map

While visiting a Northern English city, Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), an aspiring Hollywood actress, has a fling with the town undertaker Richard (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for the local paper and has written one unpublished novel, Uzi Suicide.

Owt

Owt represents the northern English pronunciation of aught, meaning "anything, nothing"; see Names for the number 0 in English.