I love listening to the different pronunciations :)

The name Craig always gets me when I hear Americans say it. It always sounds really odd to me. Over here it's pronounced Crayg whereas whenever I hear Americans say it, it sounds like Creg. Always sounds slightly cut off to me :P



Hahahahahahaahha. I just googled Craig pronunciation and there's like pages and pages on it :p

Oh, see...that drives me bonkers, when folks substitute the long a sound with a short e sound. (I'm not sure I'm describing this correctly...I dropped my phonetics class in college. HATED it!)

Oh yes, it's Crayg!

eta: At the liquor store yesterday (ahem, um, er...) I heard the cashier telling everyone and their dog where she gets her 'nells' done. Over and over. "Oh, I won't let anyone else do my nells. I like how blahblah does my nells. I get my nells done every 2 weeks." It was like fingernells on a chalkboard.

Hahahahahahaha. Yeah that's irritating.

The one that always gets me is the Northern UK pronunciation of "air" syllables (which I hear all the time because of Lee Mack on Would I Lie to You?)

The burr sat in a churr because his hurr kept blowing in the urr...

i lost my damn post!

I quite like that type of accent. Especially the more pronounced brogue kind like the accent of Bolton, Bury, or Rochdale.

Jane Horrocks comes from Rawtenstall, and that's like the classic Lancashire brogue.





In that accent the rs get pronounced almost like in American English - so the r at the end of car is pronounced.


Bolton has a couple of different accents, ranging from something quite similar to Lee Mack, to something closer to Horrocks

Peter Kay, a comedian from Bolton has the accent I mainly grew up around. Elements of this are in my speech, but it is a little less pronounced most of the time. His Phoenix Nights was set in Bolton, and the actors were mainly local. The white haired guy at the start was my mum's boss when she worked at Bolton Royal Infirmary, before he went off on his comedy career.

For Toad to help get acclimatised:)

more help

The hotel I'm going to stay at is right next to a cricket club. Derbyshire. If I get a good room it might overlook the pitch. My support counterpart says the team isn't so good. But that's not really the point...

You need to buy a derby hat while you are there

Americans should be advised that it's pronounced "Darby" and always has been.

Don't complain, we have so many screwed up place names pronunciations. Half of them came from Britain. But we have no excuse, for example, for the dually-pronounced "Houston" which is said one way in Houston, and another way in Manhattan. A moment of thought will tell you that "HYOO-stən" is a pretty ridiculous way to say it. "Hou" is "how" as in House.

I’m flying both ways on British Airways so I got the British Airways app on my phone. The app is just beautiful. Every time I open it, it tells me the details of my next flight. It tells me how long until check in, reminds me of what seat I’m in, and when the flight is. And it does it with awesome background images, of planes or of London. I wonder if I was flying to another city, will it change to that city? I guess I’ll find out.

British Airways also lets you select your seat. I picked the same seat on the same airplane, inbound and outbound. I had the advantage of knowing the seat layout of the plane because I looked it all up on Seatguru.

The whole check in thing. This is over now. The app lets me check in when the flight is 24 hours away. I don’t have to be at the airport or anything. At this time “check in” without bags means we are basically just promising to take the flight. “I am still planning to fly tomorrow.”

Yes, it's cool isn't it! I'm still a little antsy about e-check-in (where available) when I am in some of my weird and wonderful locations, but in the civilised world it is fab!

Against everyone's advice I am waking up earlier to try to partly combat jetlag in advance. All I know is, when I was in London on honeymoon, we were useless on day 2. We laid down to take a nap in the afternoon (no not in that way, we were sleeping, and anyway my ex was usually against sex of any kind, at least with me) and suddenly it was tomorrow.

If you can get outside in the sunlight those first days, do it.

We spent the entire first day out in the sun walking around, no naps, and went to bed at like 8:30 pm. Next day, we were a little tired, but had no trouble getting up at 6 or 7 am and staying up until 10pm. We were completely adjusted after that.

ymmv, since you'll be sitting inside in an office.