When is mountain not a mountain.

I know to read the f as a v so didn’t immediately latch on.
There is no better way to measure the mountain than the old fashioned one of climbing and measuring.

Annie has made a perfectly sensible post and the majority of the responses so far have been at the level of schoolchild sniggering.
Would you do that in person?

It made me snigger too but I admit to being shallow. Hasn’t a hill in north of England recently been measured and reclassified as a mountain?

Miller Moss in the Lake District is now a mountain.

merlot, I didn’t know what you were laughing at until muffin was kind enough to to explain, it was then I explained ff and f. If I knew what you were laughing at I would have asked if I could share the joke .

, I do not use ‘f’ ‘c’ ‘t’ words , that is being a prude? I am happy to be classed a prude.

What has amused me is you consider the Yorkshire accent a native tongue, I thought it was the English language spoken incorrectly.

And one more thing, I wrote Fan y big, not fannybig, so you did not read it as it was written.

FarNorth the joke only works in print though

oldbatty stop encouraging me, I will be sent to the headmistress again

Sigh.

Also I do want to make clear that no one is laughing at Annie or her post!!

I have been stuck in hospital all weekend, ladies, let me have this silly giggle to relieve the cabin fever

I am upset because I posted and was then going to say how the locals were talking of building it up and I was going to help with carrying stones up on my scooter.

I asked if I could share the joke

Apologies that my sense of humour isn’t lavatorial

muffin, with something equivalent in spoken conversation, then? Perhaps caused by a difference in accents.
Would a group of grannies go off into cackles and chatting to each other, ignoring the person who asked them something?
If so I'll continue to avoid GN meet-ups.

Sorry, Annie, for getting involved in all this rubbish on your thread.

If everyone around your mountain calls it a mountain then that is what it is, I'd say.

Wow! It'll be impressive if you all do that!

I've tried to explain to annie that there was no offence intended but she's determined to take it so I give up.

Get well soon, muffin In the meantime, have a giggle at a Welshman with a sense of humour.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvelddDCxNY

Parsley, very suspicious, Stonehenge was built with stone from Pembrokeshire, did Lake District folks take the top of Fan y big ?

Thank you FarNorth x I must remember when speaking in my mother tongue to add a translation ?

Fan y big - The big Summit. And yes it is still a mountain ?, the experts can get stuffed

Ooooh, just had a thought . Fan y big can now be called

Fan y bach. The small summit ?

Does bach mean small then? I have been labouring under a delusion for years. I thought it meant something like “dear’ or”love”.

Though why that past boyfriend could have called me small I can’t imagine. Was that irony?

Another romance memory hits the dust (sigh)

Yes Eglantine, small or little , suited me when a baby but it stuck when I was a 5’7” adult

I’m sorry, everyone. I didn’t mean to cause any trouble or offence. I was just having a daft giggle.

A daft giggle is good muffin, and you shared the joke, that was kind

OMG as the young uns say. Lighten up, what with the lecturing?

Muffin, sorry you've been in hospital, thats rotton.

Annie, sorry about your mountain.

and I was going to help with carrying stones up on my scooter

I can now I have finally got it out of the hall OldMeg , small stones though ? and would have to be pushed up there

Think what fun it will be coming down though Annie.....
Wheeeeeeeeee
(Do not exceed 50 miles per hour though unless you want a speeding fine.)

Is adding stones technically cheating??

lemon, my scooter’s top speed is 4mph ? . What’s a bit of cheating, Stonehenge is considered English but is built from stone from the Preselli mountains in Pembrokeshire. How the stones got there has puzzled the experts for many a year, this year they declared the stones were taken there by the Welsh, perhaps time we took em back ?

We rented a cottage in West Wales called Bwthyn Bach. They weren’t wrong either !