Scone rhyming with cone always sounds a bit Hyacinth Bucket to my ears too. But interestingly one of the few areas of the map which is clearly one or the other is a blob around Sheffield and Stoke. S… (View Post)

This map: https://brilliantmaps.com/scone-map/ suggests that while the scone/scone pronunciation divide is geographical, it's not THAT geographical - most locations contain a far wedge of both &… (View Post)

My wife's uncle, in his early fifties, moved from inner London to Suffolk. He chose the small town based on the pub. Decided it was going to be important to him. With his usual cheery approach t… (View Post)

It is indeed very sad. The loss of a cherished local is a terrible thing, as the Macc Lads memorably documented (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGeFZzd0yUI) But the sad reality is that there are far… (View Post)

I did a politics undergraduate course. One of the lecturers was the former SDP MP David Marquand. I remember him showing very convincingly by means od graphs of polls etc. that the Falklands effect w… (View Post)