There is no such place!

Roger Whittaker also did that song that was all whistling, and very complicated whistling at that!

(We've wandered again, haven't we!)

Roger whittaker sang a song called durham town. It went im going to leave old durham town. Nothing to do with swingers and durham isnt on the tyne

The extra syllable in our country's name has an illustrious precedent in line 16 of Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales: Engelond. Was Roger Whittaker a mediaevalist?

Hool-er-gans, or Hool-er-grans?

I expect Ingerland is where the hool-er-gans live.

I`ll let you off GreyD, lol! x

You’re absolutely right callgirl! My apologies!

I thought that Ingerland swings was Roger Miller? I LOVE Roger Whittaker!

I meant to say grammar and pronunciation.

Teetime I think PROject may be a NE dialect thing? My DH says it!

NanKate, now that really does get on my nerves. " Off of " ??

I read your post phoenix, and immediately thought of the football song "Vindaloo" by Fat Les. "We're Ingerland, and we're gonna score more goals than you".
I used to like Roger Whitaker, but not, the England swings song.
He was sitting on the banks of the wrong river when he was leaving "old Durham town" though.

Don’t get me started on Matt! Or Countryfile!

BBC pronunciation seems to get worse and worse. If I have told (shouted at) Matt on Countryfile once it is Project not PROject I have told him a thousand times.

BBC newsreaders, they can say the name of any town in any country but if reporting news from Wales, seems they can only pronounce Cardiff,Swansea,Newport .

I’m a pedant too and can be heard regularly shouting at the BBC weather presenters about their bad pronunciation eg The fog is coming off of the west ?

Being a life long pedant of the first water, Roger Whittaker used to have me howling with rage at “Ingerland swings like a pendulum do!” But he could whistle, and I love to whistle!

Probably sounds better if you sing it in a crowd, loudly and with gusto ??

I loved Roger Miller Fountainpen even his "Ingerland"

Maybe from the 'original' Angle Land? Though it might well have been Land of the Angles. Who knows?

Maybe Ingerland is where the Ingersol shines?

I blame Roger Miller and his pendulum (and his whistle).