OtherDave

No, really? Perhaps next time you have a few minutes off from wishing you were from Yorkshire you could explain some of that "sarcasm" in a way my feeble Southern brain will understand?

I get the sense from the various Brits in Canada groups I've found online that the earnestness of Canadians and their lack of familiarity with staples of British humour like sarcasm and irony is pretty draining after a while. I'm definitely going to struggle with that - I'm not even sure I know how to say "hello" without being sarcastic.

Former Lancastrian

You were born in Canada so how can you have a feeble brain? Please don't tell me that because you have been living in England you now consider yourself a Southerner. Thats almost as bad as the ones you see out on St Patricks day dressed in green and saying they are Irish. When asked where in Ireland they hail from its the usual well my 3rd cousin or something was born there therefore Im Irish. Yeah right of course you are. As a proper Irish bartender once told me if you were not born in Ireland then you are not Irish in the true sense.

So now knowing that you were born in Canada you should have no problem adjusting from coming from Brighton to Montreal as say opposed to someone who was born in Brighton and has never been further north than the M25.

OtherDave

I was born in Bristol, so although I'm a citizen since birth (mum was born in Ontario), I wasn't born in Canada. My parents moved to Canada when I was a ... what's the Northern translation ... a "wee t'nipper"? But after a couple of years in Montreal they moved back again. They loved it, but my dad was offered a great job in Brighton, where he grew up. So that makes me pretty much a hodge-podge of things, but mostly Southern I reckon.

I see mostly Scots doing that down here. Born in the UK to parents born in the UK, but because their great uncle's dog once saw a picture of a haggis they think they're Celtic and bust out a kilt at every opportunity.

Even that far north makes me uncomfortable. Scary accents and too many "t" sounds.

Former Lancastrian

FIFY

OtherDave

Coq au vin, Rodney.

scilly

well, I'm from Lancashire, and I don't think I ever heard that phrase!

and I certainly don't add "t" where unwanted.

"t" is actually short of 'the", not an addition



but seriously, don't you think this discussion has gone way off topic????



and as the OP doesn't seem to have returned for many weeks, maybe she is no longer interested, especially as most posts have contradicted her rather than supported her in her rather erroneous conclusions after a mere 2 months