The "I Love the UK" topic

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 16 years ago

kthomp wrote:still think its should have a differnt name, its not 'english' if it differs from the orginal

and i love the welsh language it is spelt completely different from how it is said

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

kthomp · Post by **kthomp** » 16 years ago

you know i will find a person who can pronounce that word someday, bet it sounds nothing like i try to say

kjackson83 · Post by **kjackson83** » 16 years ago

TullyBascombe wrote:All I'm saying is that by virtue of sheer democratic numbers "American" English is the more common usage than the King's English.

Fine.

Jude Andrew wrote:Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Is that real?

Translate?

kthomp wrote: still think its should have a differnt name, its not 'english' if it differs from the orginal

It's Americish...or Rubbish

kjackson83 · Post by **kjackson83** » 16 years ago

Jude Andrew wrote:If you lived in Britain, where would it be, and why?

I already know the answer to this one ..... Esher.

Near Woking

in Surrey

how lovely!

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 16 years ago

kjackson83 wrote:
Jude Andrew wrote:Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Is that real? Translate?

Believe it or not, it's actually the name of a town in Wales, on the Island of Angelsey just of the coast (Angelsey is where the car ferry from Ireland docks and it has a land bridge to mainland Wales). It is famous in the British Isles (apart from being completely unpronouncable

) for being the town with the longest name.... wow, shocker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpw ... iogogogoch

kjackson83 · Post by **kjackson83** » 16 years ago

Jude Andrew wrote:
kjackson83 wrote:
Jude Andrew wrote:Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Is that real? Translate?
Believe it or not, it's actually the name of a town in Wales, on the Island of Angelsey just of the coast (Angelsey is where the car ferry from Ireland docks and it has a land bridge to mainland Wales). It is famous in the British Isles (apart from being completely unpronouncable ) for being the town with the longest name.... wow, shocker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpw ... iogogogoch

So what do the locals call it? "Yes, hello: I'm a student at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch High School..."

::EDIT::
Looked at the Wiki article and consulted an atlas and sure enough, there it is: Llanfair PG, near the Menai Bridge...

one of those things you'd never notice if it wasn't pointed out

kjackson83 · Post by **kjackson83** » 16 years ago

The "new" question again:
If you lived in Britain, where would it be, and why?

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 16 years ago

So what do the locals call it? "Yes, hello: I'm a student at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch High School..."

Imagine having to learn to write your address in Kindergarten and that being in it

Whoops, I mean Year 1!

If you lived in Britain, where would it be, and why?

Surrey or Kent. Or maybe Berkshire... I think they all look very nice, really. Probably Kent though, because its not far from Central London and its not far from the coast. Growing up on the water (directions to the Chesapeake Bay from my house consist of "walk down the street", though admittedly its just a little inlet) I would find it very difficult to be somewhere where it took hours and hours to get to the water.

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 16 years ago

libera36 wrote:Surrey or Kent. Or maybe Berkshire... I think they all look very nice, really. Probably Kent though...

Yep, there is no doubt that Kent is a beautful county. That's why the call it the "Garden of England".

xsakurax · Post by **xsakurax** » 16 years ago

Surrey seems like a really nice place to live in! It's pretty close to Croydon, isn't it?

kjackson83 · Post by **kjackson83** » 16 years ago

xsakurax wrote:Surrey seems like a really nice place to live in! It's pretty close to Croydon, isn't it?

Surrey is bounded on the north in part by Croydon (and by a half dozen other London boroughs). Croydon proper was once part of Surrey until the 20th century and the actual town is in the southern part of the borough, right next to Surrey. Croydon wants status as a full-blown city, but hasn't gotten it so far--among other things, it lacks a cathedral

a traditional requirement for full city status.

Surrey is, however, a WHOLE lot greener than Croydon...Surrey is a county of commuters, especially in the larger towns (Guildford has a cathedral

), and is comparatively a little more affluent.

Croydon, to put it bluntly, is the butt of many jokes because it has a colourful history as a restless, occasionally even violent, part of Greater London: case in point, BBC 4's Friday Night Comedy podcast-- "So someone's found the skeleton of a hobbit, eh? I wonder which other fantasy creatures will turn out to be real?" / "Well, we know orcs come from Croydon, so--"

When Libera first came out, they surprised a whole bunch of people by being based in a Croydon church...

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 16 years ago

You guys that manage to get to the UK don't just stop in London, try to get to the real Britain - Yorkshire! (known to us yocals as God's own county). And, if I may say so, we also have one of the worlds finest Cathedrals in York Minster (a gold star for anybody that can name the Libera song sung at York Minster).

kjackson83 - my sister lives in Surrey in a village called Shere. I have to admit it's a beautiful part of the world. Yorkshire has a bleak, masculine beauty, where as Surrey has a rather softer, rounder feminine charm (but eye wateringly expensive).

As they say "Yorkshire born Yorkshire bred, strong in t'arm and thick in't 'ead"

kthomp · Post by **kthomp** » 16 years ago

i live in hampshire

the tourist always head for london and never get to see the real united kingdom, yes london depicts the modern english lifestyle but the beauty of the uk everyone misses like the simply life in my seaside milatry town/village lol

god im becoming and anglophile (kjackson

)

kjackson83 · Post by **kjackson83** » 16 years ago

Yorkie wrote:You guys that manage to get to the UK don't just stop in London, try to get to the real Britain - Yorkshire! (known to us yocals as God's own county). And, if I may say so, we also have one of the worlds finest Cathedrals in York Minster (a gold star for anybody that can name the Libera song sung at York Minster).

kjackson83 - my sister lives in Surrey in a village called Shere. I have to admit it's a beautiful part of the world. Yorkshire has a bleak, masculine beauty, where as Surrey has a rather softer, rounder feminine charm (but eye wateringly expensive).

As they say "Yorkshire born Yorkshire bred, strong in t'arm and thick in't 'ead"

I have a friend in Yorkshire--it looks absolutely stunning. As a member of ECUSA, my church is under the authority of the Archbishop of York (John Sentamu), whom I think will make an excellent Archbishop of Canterbury eventually...the Minster is overwhelming in just pictures, I can only imagine what it looks like firsthand. York Minster is, I think, the largest Gothic cathedral north of the Alps

I would like to see the stained glass at sunrise or sunset...

Yes, unfortunately Surrey is REALLY expensive

but with some clever investing...

tcliffy · Post by **tcliffy** » 16 years ago

Essex where my Grandmother lives and where my Grandfather lived.