Notoriety

I agree with you, Riverwalk, so was a tad put out to find this definition on dictionary.com:

2 publicly or generally known, as for a particular trait:
a newspaper that is notorious for its sensationalism.
Synonyms: notable, renowned, celebrated, prominent, conspicuous, famous, widely known.

Reviving an old thread that I started.

Today I was checking the exact location of the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road in an attempt to dodge as much of the rain as possible.

Following a link on the theatre's website I'm led to believe that the area is 'notorious' for large theatres and even larger productions.

I know that language develops but surely notorious still means being famous for something bad, e.g. many brothels or pickpockets not theatres?

Garrick

Thanks Rose that makes interesting reading.

I think there's a link on the Broadchurch thread.

Oh, found it again:
www.westbay.co.uk/broadchurch/locations.php

I was born, bred and educated in the Hull area and have enjoyed reading this thread. Let's hear it for 'Ull! It is a very 'different' place full of contrasts and with its own culture. We are looking forward to the Year of Culture and hope to spend lots of time there when it happens.
We live in Cornwall now and will be visiting Clevedon next Monday/Tuesday so I will look out for Broadchurch sites (I thought it was filmed in Dorset. Which bits are Clevedon?)

'Smirking Area' that was it! (Sorry, the Victoria Wood sketch just came back into my head just then...)

All this Yorkshire has put me in mind of Dickon in The Secret Garden! I lived there for a while....father stationed at Dishforth and I went to Ripon Girls' High !

Clevedon and Portishead where I live.

Eeh by gum, I didn't know that whenim.
I do hope your DH wasn't 'smirking'!
Like most of Broadchurch being filmed in Clevedon.

I munna tell the joke about the road from Yorkshire to Lancashire (or vice versa) which DH enjoys so much!

Nunty is a new one on me!

Vampirequeen - I lived in Hull for many years, worked with children with reading problems. Among other things they'd never heard of "h"!
And the teachers were nunty.

As a born and bred Hullensian I'd just like to say that we don't 'ave much sner but it siles down with rain loads.

Eh Up rosequartz, not just Yorkshire, a lot of the filming is done here in Lancashire, our moors blend into the Yorkshire Moors. The filming at Caroline's school takes place at Bolton School, an independent school based in Bolton. Not that there's any competition between Yorkshire and Lancashire tha knows.

My husband and his walking pals were initially refused bookings at a Yorkshire B&B, because they were a group of 6 men. During the subsequent phone call, it was explained to the proprietor this was a group of retired 60 somethings, who wanted to walk and may have a beer in the evening with their meal at the pub, but wouldn't be "trouble". OK - but noooo smirking said the owner.

It must be common pronunciation at it appeared in one of Victoria Wood's christmas shows, with people standing around under a sign that said "no smirking", all smirking away

I think Yorkshire has gained notoriety since Last Tango in Halifax.

The goings-on oop north, who'd have believed it!

Although in their north it's a bit more up at the end, with two syllables, a bit like going to Louth in Lincs and hearing a native say 'Lowerth'. So that would make it 'sner-a' with silent R.

They pronounce it 'sner'. It's not surprising, the Viking influence is very strong in 'ull. They have in that area a higher proportion of natural pale blondes than anywhere else in the country.

bags that is about as helpful as someone when asked what reindeer tastes like (they had it in Lidl recently) replied "it's similar to moose"

DD2 went to uni in Hull (where I lived as a child for five years) so that she could do Swedish. She had some lovely "Ullisms". My favourite was when she told us how Hullers say the word 'snow'. I don't think I can write it phonetically. Anyway, they say snow in Hull in exactly the same way as Swedes say snow .

I've been out of Yorkshire for too long as well thatbags

And I know the lingo varies enormously from top to bottom, east to west.

phoenix I absolutely love that clip. It reminds me so much of the women I knew when I was growing up. It's so true to life it's scary.

This might help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm6VC5gdaFA

Spect I do, nightowl. I've been out of Yorkshire for too long and have forgotten the lingo!

Recognition? Renown?

Of course no-one has ever heard of Yorkshire beyond its borders

I see an apology coming on

Having fully dissected the post to the best of my limited ability, I have come to the conclusion that, as it is the Daily Mail, I am not surprised. I believe they are notorious for this kind of thing. Pretty wedding though.

Don't you mean t'int nowt new thatbags

It is the DM, what do you expect!

Yorkshire has international notoriety already. T'aint nuthin' new.