On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 09:29:53PM +0100, Bob W wrote: > On 8 Jun 2013, at 19:49, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My wife, though, (a Nottingham girl) regards it much as you do. > > D H Lawrence was a Nottinghamshire lad, me duck. > > Perhaps it's a north/south thing. I grew up mostly abroad, but my parents > were both from Northern families and my boarding school was in Derbyshire, > not far at all from Nottingham. It wasn't until I was well into my adult > years that I learned that for some people (i thought only Americans) it had > an anatomical meaning.
I know pretty much where Derby is - I was born there. We moved down to Kent when I was four, but my wife could at least claim that she wasn't marrying a southerner. And I'm also aware of where Lawrence came from; I married into a Nottinghamshire (ex-)coal mining family, and having a mother who was an English teacher (so I'm sure she knew all the words, even if she wouldn't use them in polite company), I've still got a few of his Penguins on the bookshelf (although not, it appears, Lady C.). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
