Dixon: a Scotsman?

[Mark Wright]

Forgive me for asking, but Boston MA or Boston UK, of the stump and the
fens? (Name for a pub: "Stump & Fen"

On Thursday, January 8, 2015, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a small child I would often serve as translator for my North Cumbrian
> grandmother. People in Boston literally could not understand what she was
> saying. It was as if she were speaking a different language. She would
> become visibly offended if anyone commented on her "lovely Scottish
> accent". She considered it a gross insult. "I've never been to Scotland in
> me life! How dare they say such things!"
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marrja at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> If anybody non-British is curious to hear what a Geordie like Jeremiah
>> Dixon sounds like, here's 30 seconds to digest
>>
>> Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNAZFHHirg>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Mark Stevenson <
>> m.thomas.stevenson at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','m.thomas.stevenson at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mwahaha already sowing seeds of dissent. No but thanks for sorting my
>>> fuzzy brain out, my bad, my bad.  I'll try and keep my mistakes in
>>> check from now on. I should actually know, being it's my country, and
>>> I had friend who to University in Durham, but I think it was Dunham
>>> Castle that might've been the suspect mite on the brain. Also Johnny
>>> Marr, I'm a big fan.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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