[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...
>See link photograph - Front left of picture..... 'Oven bottom muffins'
>indeed, what sanitised BBC nonsense language is this! As a native Lancastrian
>(now in exile), I always knew them as Barm Cakes. Perhaps in the tropical
>south
>(south of Wigan that is, or the mysterious east (of Bolton) known now as
>Greater Manchester, and other unmentionable places beyond) this is the name of
>the delicacy. Ashton-under-Lyne does, I suppose have to conform to this
>imposed
>linguistic correctness since its identity has been compromised by
>bureaucracy since it is no longer in Lancashire.{;-))
Nonsense! No wonder we regard those from the far northern reaches of the
country as "barmy"! :o)
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Martin Clark
Internet Boaters' Database http://www.lock13.co.uk/boats
Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
