You weird Yorkshire people!

The Guardian has an article about common use of euphemisms as recently gathered by the OUP people.

"Curious local examples are a little more common.The Yorkshire seaside resort of Filey is the only place in the world where dying is referred to as "going to the North Riding". This stems from the traditional local government boundary which divides the town, with most people living in the East Riding but the cemetery just across the old county border."

???!!!

I should be in York weekend of 9th November for vin_petrol's birthday drinks - yippee! so I can Investigate :) If you'd like to meet up with me on the Saturday or Sunday, do yell !!

Lovely quote

from A Nother mailing list trying desperately to think how to condemn the raid on TV LInks while not aligning themseves with (gasp!) software piracy.

""Organised crime DVD factories take money away from rights owners and use
it to fund organised criminal activities (which our government has claimed
includes drugs and terrorism). File sharers still take the money away
from the rights owners but at least your typical student file sharer will
be spending it on textbooks and beer"

Discuss..