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Many congratulations, Chris. MG

This thread made me think of the way people from Brighton and Hove pronounce 'opposite' - 'opposight'. This isn't the way people from rural areas only a few miles away say it. But whether rural or urban, they all pronounce words like 'round' as (I'm not sure I can type this) 'reound'. But I don't pronounce those words that way. Nor did my mother. She spoke proper standard English - not quite upper class, but nearly. And I don't know how she got that way. She was born in Paris, a kid in the East End then, at 14, apprenticed to her Aunt Alice, who affected an upper class drawl, and who owned a hairdresser's on the boundary between Brighton and Hove. In the thirties Mum worked for Raymond "Mr Teasy Weasy", a top hairdresser of the time, and I suspect she got her accent from him. Anyone who saw him in 'What's my line' and other TV programmes will remember his camp accent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Bessone Mum didn't speak with a camp accent, but I suspect Raymond didn't either, when he was just being himself. Having been brought up in Brighton/Hove, Yorkshire and London, I picked up and dropped accents as easy as winking. Eventually I decided it was OK to pronounce words with any accent I liked MG

Good grief; I see George Formby on that sleeve!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Furds wail me! MG He's featured on the entirety of the 3rd disc, 26 songs. Furds wail me? That's a new one for me. What does that mean? It's a spoonerism. Words fail me. MG

I put down 60 hours, when I did work, before a very welcome retirement. Working for politicians, you work nearly as many hours as they do. Though some of it was at home; if there was a speech to write, it was better to concentrate at home after work. And it was ALWAYS urgent. Politicians are bigger arseholes than any manager. And nastier. The accompanying survey - on wages - was interesting, too. My pension this year is $3622 a month; 18% above the UK average. And I reckon I earned every penny. MG

Good grief; I see George Formby on that sleeve!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Furds wail me! MG

Well, I sprang for it! Never seen this one before. I agree with you about CHarles Davis. $4-99 PLUS $9-16 postage - effin liberty, with no RVG in dead wax. Thanks Jim. Well, just ordered new turntable Project Genie MK3 Arrives Tuesday or Wednesday - whenever you need to get something delivered quickly, it's bank holiday. MG

Many happy returns, Jim. MG

Another good one, I don't play as much as some of you modern types would is Those of you who know Saxton from his work on Jimmy Ponder's "Mean streets, no bridges" will want this. Saxton (curved sop & ts), Hicks (p), Ray Drummond (b), Queen (d), prod A Queen MG

You can get a ridiculously over-priced new copy (£19 goddammit!) at Amazon UK or pay a fiver for a download http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenox-Seventh-Lonnie-Smith-Alvin/dp/B00004SDJZ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1337886200&sr=1-1 It's a bit cheaper from Amazon France http://www.amazon.fr/Lenox-Seventh-Lonnie-Smith-Alvin/dp/B00004SDJZ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1337886408&sr=1-1 MG

(Couldn't resist) MG

About thirty miles ENE of Swansea. Gower is south west of Swansea. I'm not sure where on the Gower Port Eynon is; I've only visited a couple of times, but the scenery and bird life is very good there. MG

That's 'cos jewels is propnounced jools MG

Not always. http://www.kindakinks.net/discography/showsong.php?song=390 Shows how out of touch Ray Davies was with the British character. Most Brits prefer to talk about Postmodernism or the immortality of the soul rather than the weather. The French admire us for it. What was it Napoleon once called us? 'A nation of philosophers'. I thought he called you guys " A nation of shopkeepers" ... but perhaps you jest? Yeah, we're a nation of weather forecasters. It's easy, 'specially in Wales. If you can see the other side of the valley, it's going to rain; if you can't, it's raining. MG

Intregal, instead of integral. Now that's not a local variation, that's just people can't read and make the letters into words. MG

I suppose most people would think this is correct, too. MG

Indeed. I have a couple of LPs previously owned by a guy called Wally, who wrote his name neatly on the label. He, too, evinced good taste. They were 'I got a woman' by Jimmy McGriff and "The grass roots' by Grasella Oliphant. UK editions which he'd prpbably had since they were issued in the mid 60s. MG

Thanks Jim. So, now I know - and it is strange that the expression originated here, but probably among the upper classes, to few of whom I have ever spoken - I am sure there's nowt wrong with the sleeve. "Pickin's" is perfectly proper, as a G has been omitted. It would indeed be interestin' to see if there are sleeves with incorrect apostrophisation. I can't think of any except by Booker T & the MG's, and the JB's. But, though I greatly prefer to write or see MGs or JBs, lots of people say this is correct. MG

A What are 'grocers apostrophes'? B Why isn't there an apostrophe in grocers? I don't know what it means without one. C I can't see anything wrong with the Howard Roberts' sleeve. MG Oh, I see there is an apostrophe in the thread title. When replying, you can't see the title, only in the address line, which omits naughty things like apostrophes. I still don't know what grocer's apostrophes are, though. MG Oh, I see there is an apostrophe in the thread title. When replying, you can't see the title, only in the address line, which omits naughty things like apostrophes. I still don't know what grocer's apostrophes are, though. MG

I've just started re-reading, and in some cases reading, Alexandre Dumas' D'Artagnan novels: 1 The three musketeers 2 Twenty years after 3 The Vicomte de Bragelonne 4 Louise de la Vallière 5 The man in the iron mask 'Twenty years after' was the second wot he wrote, but it takes place ten years after the three later books, which were supposed to be one novel, but turned out to be too huge to be published that way. I've only read 1, 2 & 5 before. Haven't made up my mind whether, when I finish #1, to go on to 3, 4 and 5, then 2 - taking them in story order - or in book order, in case there are things one's supposed to know about 2 when reading 3, 4 & 5. But I am inclined to read them in story order, if only because I had some difficulties following the incomplete sequence when I read a few of them, years ago. Does anyone know this series well enough to advise? MG

That should be "Can we have more threads about whether ECM is crap" Britons and Americans - two peoples separated by singular and plural verb conjugations for the same subject!! (I hope I said that right) They stopped teaching grammar at my school when I was 14. It was 1969. After that it was all about freely expressing yourself, unconstrained by chord changes, key signatures or rhythmic patterns (though those in the know could still tell those who could really 'swing'). But it is true, if odd, that over here we do think of firms as plural and in America, more logically, they think of them as singular. However, in the present instance, there is the choice of two interpretations of the original sentence, because part of the sentence is understood (or not). Can we have more threads about whether ECM are crap? (Can we have more threads about whether ECM RECORDS are crap?) Can we have more threads about whether ECM is crap? (Can we have more threads about whether ECM PRODUCT is crap? I'm neutral on this subject, because I've never knowingly heard any ECM recordings (or any Kenny G, either). MG