Dixon: a Scotsman?

[Jamie McKittrick]

Presumably Boston US (Boston UK is miniscule (pop. 40,000)). The British
would also have been able to discern a Geordie accent from a Scottish,
although whether we could tell what was being said...

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Mark Wright <washoepete at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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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