True, but when you rely on many facts, or some facts, you can paint an entirely different picture and still be telling the truth.

In am not disputing what you say – I am not sure I understand your point. Can you explain with an example?

Same woman – and whatever her character, which is of course a matter of opinion, her death is a fact.;)

Thanks, CD – and well deserved it was!

Like, apparently, most of the country, I bow before him!!:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Horrible Histories is brilliant. Watched by our whole fsamily – grandson to grandparents it has found the perfect formula in dispensing historical information in an amusing but informative way. I think it won an award of some sort a month or so ago for its originality. And a stack of books has been published in association with the programmes.

A fact is a fact, isn’t it? How can you adulterate a proven piece of information? Elizabeth Taylor died on March 23rd 2011. Fact.

You are surely not suggesting that the Great God Fry could possibly be wrong, are you……..??;);)He’s a pain in the a***e.:(

Forgive me if this is ignorant, but what is the difference between this thread, and this one: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=107070?

This one is entitled “Aircraft you wished you had gone on” and the previous thread was entitied “Aircraft you wish you could still go on”. So a rather easy difference to distinguish I would have thought……:)

Kev

What an interesting post. I enjoyed your examples and the passage of dialogue very much.

The comment you made about pronounciation of words applies to most regional dialects, I think. I have been fortunate enough to have travelled extensively in the UK for the greater part of my life and have spent periods of time in many of them. I have to say that the North East and the multiplicity of dialect differences there is probably my favourite area and Merseyside my least favourite.

So many people confuse the Black Country with “Birmingham” whereas they are very different. My wife’s family are West Riding and I spent a good few hours when my father-in-law was alive with him and his cronies in a few small-town pubs around Barnsley where the accent is almost impenetrable.

Long may regional speech and local dialects live.