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edited June 8 in General student discussion
Anyone passionate about Rugby League :shock:

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    No; Rugby union yes, not league
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    Fair dos, have played both but live in an RL city . Watch Union ocassionally especially since the likes of Robnson and Farrell are in the England Team
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    Is there a difference?

    I know there's a different amount of players but are the rules not the same?

    :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

    Forgive my ignorance but I live in the Southern half of the country (as if you hadn't guessed).
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    Kevin - if you believe all that you watch on telly, us in East Anglia are a foreign country....

    and some of them behave like it!!!!

    Claudia
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    :lol::lol: yes you're right, Claudia.

    Some of those who have never visited this beautiful area have amusing preconceptions.

    Or is that misconceptions?

    Sorry, my grammar ain't perfect but oi can droive a tractor :lol::lol:
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    The one I like is

    "Yo' Bin Laden?"

    "No, but I bin Swaffham"

    :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    Claudia
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    My parents have a holiday home on the Norfolk coast (in Mundesley), and I'll be going to uni in Norwich this Autumn. I've already had fun with mispronouncing towns like "Wymondham" and "Happisburgh". Can you suggest how I can learn to understand East Anglian?

    I'm from Hertfordshire, so I think I speak normally!
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    Easy way to pronounce Norfolk names is to miss out the middle eg

    Happisburgh - Haysbro'
    Hunstanton - Hunston
    Potter Heigham - Potteram
    Hautbois - Hobbis

    Problem is you can take it a bit too far - near us is a place called Sparham and pronounced normally.

    As a family we know it as Spam :lol: and then when you talk to other people, they think you are totally barking (which we probably are!)

    Claudia
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    claudialowe wrote:
    Potter Heigham - Potteram

    My mum used to live there.

    :roll:
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    Any that do escape rarely come back!!!!!!!

    What I find really scary is the number of Norfolkites that have never left the county :roll: oh well - NFN - normal for Norfolk!

    Claudia
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    Well, she only stayed there while her father was at an RAF camp in the 2nd WW.

    Then it was back to deepest Dorset.

    :oops:
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    I started in deepest darkest Dorset and now in Norfolk :roll:

    Claudia
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    I remember - Sixpenny H - if I recall correctly.

    Still haven't been there!
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    Exactly - right on the Dorset/Wilts border - his house is in Dorset and garden in Wiltshire!!!!!!

    Claudia
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    I started out in Cornwall, escaped when I was 18 and somehow managed to end up back here.
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    I like Cornwall. Liked Carbis Bay and then back along the North Coast to a place called Trevaunance Cove (not spelt, quite right!).
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    I live in Devon. And almost every village name ends in Worthy. Pyworthy, Beaworthy, Woolfhardisworthy (what kind of hell name is that?!), Holsworthy... I could go on... Why do they have such stupid names?!

    One day I am going to escape from here too :)
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    Some of my local towns:

    Hertford - Hart (male deer) + ford (river crossing)
    Broxbourne - Brox (Badger in latin) + bourne (stream)
    Hoddesdon - Odo's (Norman lord) + down (rolling hill)

    Lots of other towns end in -ford or -don. Some of the stranger ones:

    St. Alban's - Roman christian- the first martyred in England
    Waltham Cross - the 'cross' comes from the monuments erected to mark the funeral procession of Eleanor of Castille, Queen of England in the 13th century.

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    I worked at Waltham Cross for a while.

    :cry:
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    But there are no Rugby League Fans ?

    Never Mind....

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