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Ok folks I have been a bit quiet recently, worn out from the long walking and long day, but I am enjoying my time speaking to the public.

Today I was chastised by a 75 year old woman for being a Southerner who can not pronounce Black Country names properly, I can not recall correctly the exact name, and if I did then of course it will be against customer confidentiality clauses I have signed, but then general gist of it was that I did not pronounce the vowels properly with the other letters! She took great delight in educating me how to speak properly!

We had a good laugh in the end about it, she asked where I was from, told her South coast Portsmouth Southampton way and she said "I KNEW IT!"

On way home tonight I was thinking about this in terms of family history and census and certainly realised how easily an official recording records could make mistake when taking a name from someone verbally.

Especially in the Black Country Andrew, where the accent changes at every bus stop

AndrewA wrote:Ok folks I have been a bit quiet recently, worn out from the long walking and long day, but I am enjoying my time speaking to the public.

Today I was chastised by a 75 year old woman for being a Southerner who can not pronounce Black Country names properly, I can not recall correctly the exact name, and if I did then of course it will be against customer confidentiality clauses I have signed, but then general gist of it was that I did not pronounce the vowels properly with the other letters! She took great delight in educating me how to speak properly!

We had a good laugh in the end about it, she asked where I was from, told her South coast Portsmouth Southampton way and she said "I KNEW IT!"

On way home tonight I was thinking about this in terms of family history and census and certainly realised how easily an official recording records could make mistake when taking a name from someone verbally.

Phone her back!!

Tell her about the Black Country Connections tree and our Black Country Genealogy section

honestly Andrew!! fancy not finding out who she connects to!

Can't get the staff can you NL ????

Antie Em wrote:Can't get the staff can you NL ????

Wot do you expect Antie Em he a southerner

nice speaking one mind ya!

bc u all talk funny anyway

peterd wrote:bc u all talk funny anyway

Rowley Regis to you!!

AndrewA wrote:
On way home tonight I was thinking about this in terms of family history and census and certainly realised how easily an official recording records could make mistake when taking a name from someone verbally.

I read somewhere that if you could not find a family in census then it is worth holding your nose and saying the name out loud, then try to spell it the way it sounds. The reasoning is that everyone had enlarged adenoids back then.

Is that a scientific proven fact Gardener? Or is this that tongue in cheek Icelandic wit that Ice People are renowned for?

Oh and what does that mean "Rowley Regis to you " ?

Rob wrote:Is that a scientific proven fact Gardener? Or is this that tongue in cheek Icelandic wit that Ice People are renowned for?

I think it is more a "well-known fact"

Well i never knew that !! I'm going to ask around my vast circle of friends if it's a well known fact to them.

Northern Lass wrote:

peterd wrote:bc u all talk funny anyway

Rowley Regis to you!!

Is that like Going round the Wrekin ?

Rob wrote:Well i never knew that !! I'm going to ask around my vast circle of friends if it's a well known fact to them.

Wot all one of them

AndrewA wrote:

Northern Lass wrote:

peterd wrote:bc u all talk funny anyway

Rowley Regis to you!!

Is that like Going round the Wrekin ?

no!! don't be silly AA

Peterd knows

"Peterd knows"!!!! I hate in jokes !!!! The people in on the joke are so smug in the knowledge that only they know what's meant by the statement !!! Grrrr