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[ms_lilith]

Arrived home feeling sad and in need of the chuckle I got out of Facebook. My latest Facebook application invite was for "Spark" which seems, if I have got this right, to be an application where you look at your friend's friends and say if you find them attractive from their photos. The question is "would you date ...friend's name here..?" that's

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[mysstickle]

Shouldn't that be "wor Marie"? :p

[fay_melusine]

I always wondered how to spell 'Hyem'. Louise Barnes used to say it a lot, but she laughed like a monkey too.

I'm not so fond of this spark thing. I have not added it as an application, yet is still seems intent on emailing me to tell me "random stranger who you may or may not know through a friend wants to date you".

I'm not so keen on these types of applications for the exact reason your granny wouldn't be.

[scaryjim]

Of course, it Marie was a proper northerner it'd be 'Yam'. 'Hyem' must be a posh version for those living south of the Tyne ;^) (it sounds rather like it's got that horrid aspirate H they people try to use to sound posh e.g. "Hyou must h'excuse me..."

[fay_melusine]

Ooh yes... Bernie pronounces the H in White, Why, Where etc... Its really quite annoying!

[ms_lilith]

The H sounds in Home where I come from. Apparently The North never really caught on when H dropping starting being a thing. It's in the group of dialects that sounds a H when other dialects (associated with being common) dropped it.

Jim is arse talking, Hyem is in the Geordie dictionary, from the Scandinavian apparently

But he is half right with the not proper northern, it would be be wor if we lived further north. But we didnt. Wor is for people wot dinna talk proper.

[mysstickle]

I can't imagine how one would pronounce "hyem" without shortening it to something like Yam anyhow. But maybe it's because i'm a londoner.

[ms_lilith]

more like a wobbly ham