"She says 'tomato' and I say 'tomahto'.....", etc.  
But thanks for the email from tomorrow.  I was explaining to my favorite great-granddaughter only 33 minutes before your post below about time zones, Daylight Rearranging Time, states that are split, etc., etc., and mentioned that "it's 6 minutes after midnight in London".  Her 9 year old mind apparently, until that moment, had not collided with the possibility of someone living tomorrow.

You can bet that I'll be printing this with full headers for her.



Peter Farrow wrote:
Yeah "Farrow" is English, from the south west at that originally..... (Bristol), not too far from Wales, interstingly, the toll bridge to get to Wales is only pay one way, thats to go from England to Wales,  I explain this by stating "There is no fee to enter the promised land"...

http://www.severnbridge.co.uk/

I am quite fortunate in having visited many many parts of the US for work and pleasure alike, the most amusing take on my "British Accent" was when I was asked which part of Canada I was from.

I do of course speak what could be referred to as "the Queens english" with a hint of West Country thrown in for good measure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Country_dialects

Although I most definitely do not sound like a pirate.... from the above page

"

The West Country accent is probably most identified in American English as "pirate speech" — cartoon-like "Ooh arr, me 'earties! Sploice the mainbrace!" talk is very similar. This may be a result of the strong seafaring tradition of the West Country, both legal and outlaw. Edward Teach (Blackbeard) was a native of Bristol, and privateer and English hero Francis Drake hailed from Tavistock in Devon.
"

---my mother-in-law definitely does,  in fact my accent is such a non-accent I have actually had jobs reading the news on local BBC radio...- and trust me "you have to be bloody jolly british sounding" to be allowed do that.... ;-)

Another thing that makes me laugh is when Holywood  labels places in films as "London, England"....  that really is LOL... do you guys really need that?

Given the chance (again) to emigrate and go to the USA, I would of course jump at it,  anywhere that has such cheap gas and plentiful supply of V8 power automobiles is truly heaven on earth.

NTSC TV quality will take some getting used to though after BBC PAL & Terrestial RGB Digital Tv here....

P.





Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Peter Farrow <peter@farrows.org> wrote:
  
Well,
You didn't disappoint too much,
    

I know all about Greenwich v. Paris.  ;->  Farrow sounded
English, although I'm not up on all of the origins of various
surnames in the Greater Commonwealth of the United Kingdom
and his territories.

E.g., and unlike most Americans, I don't call everything a
"British accent."  I want to smack all my fellow Americans
who say such to Australians and others.  Besides, despite
never leaving the US, I pride myself on knowing differences
between the main London, southern isle, Welch (oh God do I
love women with such enchanting vocals ;-), Scottish and, the
one most Americans can't stand, Manchester (although beyond
those main ones, I can't tell much difference).

  
the term "UTC" always makes me chuckle,
    

Well, there's a more technical reason as I pointed out.

  
and I always bait my friends across the water by pretending
not to know what it is....
    

Sorry, not that clueless (despite never have left the US, nor
seen even half of it).

  
The French originally wanted zero Longitude to be through
Paris,  but they changed in the end....
http://www.fi.edu/time/keepers/frick/res3.htm
I think this actually answers it all.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
Long live GMT...
    

Remember, it was our American President that forced the
issue.
Which begs the question ...

Is it all just results of American rise and influence?

Or the greater British conspiracy spanning a half millenia to
father, spurn then support a new nation to further it's
agenda and economies using the same language?

Many doubt this theory.  But unlike most Americans, I do not
miss the subliminal but key fact that at the entrance of the
main exhibit of the US National Archives where you can view
the Declaration of Indepdenece and US Constitution, the
British Magna Carta is prominently displayed as basically the
key, pre-requisite document.

And even before the French really got involved in our little,
planned rebellon on our side of the world (away from the
European theater that was there well before our conflict), we
were negotiating a treaty with the British to end it.  That
led the Spanards to push the French to retaliate to change
the original terms of (what would be) the Treaty of Versai to
make the Americans a colony of France.

Oh there are so much that Americans know so little about!

Shall I continue?  (yes, I know, I will off-list ;-)


  

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