Politically correct in Yorkshire.

[JohnW]

Did you know - that the Tour-de-France organisers have banned volunteer helpers in Yorkshire from using the word "Luv".

The poor folk - if you're a Yorkshire person, "Luv" is just part of our vocabulary - if someone wants to ask a question, many of us will say "yes luv?" - if you get on a 'bus in Yorkshire, the driver will often say "right luv" or "ok lad" (also banned)............and so it goes on. If you accidentally bump into someone, most of us will say "sorry luv", or "sorry lad" or "sorry bud" . It's just how we are and they are just words we use, they're not a voodoo incantation .

Good grief...............how daft...............if I, in my capacity as a not being a volunteer, use any of these expressions (apparently "mate" and "darling" are also regarded as crimes of international significance), will I expect to spend the rest of my life in jail? - or will I get sentenced to writing out 100 times "I must always be politically correct"?

I don't know whether the word "friend" is also under threat.

[Audax67]

You'll have to practice saying mon amour and cheri instead.

[Vantage]

You are kidding, right?

Edit: nope you weren't,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... tings.html

OMG! What's going on with this planet!

[reohn2]

You'll have to practice saying mon amour and cheri instead.

John
Bonkers,but then the world is

[kwackers]

I thought it was "duck".

(First time someone said it to me there was actually a duck nearby and I thought they were talking to it! Didn't help that their accent was very strong and my brain was a sentence behind in the decoding)

[reohn2]

I thought it was "duck".

No that's Derbyshire and the Middlands

(First time someone said it to me there was actually a duck nearby and I thought they were talking to it! Didn't help that their accent was very strong and my brain was a sentence behind in the decoding)

And that's from a Warringtonian

[kwackers]

And that's from a Warringtonian

We speak Queens English in Warrington.

[Postboxer]

Surely to avoid confusion the volunteers should avoid speaking English and instead instantly adopt the language of whomever they're talking to.

[reohn2]

And that's from a Warringtonian

We speak Queens English in Warrington.

Ponce

[reohn2]

Surely to avoid confusion the volunteers should avoid speaking English and instead instantly adopt the language of whomever they're talking to.

Everyone should be made to speak Esperanto,like wot I dos

[Neilo]

We speak Queens English in Warrington.

You want to listen to Wenglish (Welsh/ English)
Everyone is designated as "Butt" as in "Alright Butt"
or the classic "I'll be there now, in a minute"

Neil

[rudge]

I thought it was "duck".

(First time someone said it to me there was actually a duck nearby and I thought they were talking to it! Didn't help that their accent was very strong and my brain was a sentence behind in the decoding)

I always understood that the north/south luv/duck boundary went through Burton on Trent.

I remember the startlement when the film "This Sporting Life" - about rugby league - opened and grown men - big grown men - were heard to address each other as "luv".

[Cunobelin]

In Scotland, the phrase when a female went to the Counter in a shop was:
"Is that you, Hen?"

Friend of mine had a french fiancee

She couldn't understand who else it could be - so it was a stupid question

Then came the real controversy as "Hen" in France refers to a lady of "negotiable virtue" ... so it was a massive insult as well!

[Cunobelin]

Did you know - that the Tour-de-France organisers have banned volunteer helpers in Yorkshire from using the word "Luv".

The poor folk - if you're a Yorkshire person, "Luv" is just part of our vocabulary - if someone wants to ask a question, many of us will say "yes luv?" - if you get on a 'bus in Yorkshire, the driver will often say "right luv" or "ok lad" (also banned)............and so it goes on. If you accidentally bump into someone, most of us will say "sorry luv", or "sorry lad" or "sorry bud" . It's just how we are and they are just words we use, they're not a voodoo incantation .

Good grief...............how daft...............if I, in my capacity as a not being a volunteer, use any of these expressions (apparently "mate" and "darling" are also regarded as crimes of international significance), will I expect to spend the rest of my life in jail? - or will I get sentenced to writing out 100 times "I must always be politically correct"?

I don't know whether the word "friend" is also under threat.

Time these rebellious Northerners were brought into line and made to speak proper Southern English!

[axel_knutt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OrK4PJjLdY