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@Kin Ton Ti ... He knows all this stuff only because of the hard graft that @Dozers Dad and the rest of us have put into educating him in to the correct spellings and terminology to use on a Brit based forum for British bikes, albeit made in Taiwan!
I must correct him on one mistake though, TWAT is most definitely is the noun to describe @Ron Ashurst

 

Peeps this is getting way out of my depths. I just know Britain and America have always stood shoulder to shoulder. And thank God they did. Its nought to do though with Kin Ton Ti's question. Which was a respectful question.
Ride Safe
Joe.

 

I think the biggest mistake our friend Kin Ton Ti has made is asking some of you guys to clarify anything...the poor chap is going to have linguistic nightmares after this.

 

I think we shouldn't forget, we cant even agree amongst ourselves how to pronounce words.
I give you
Scone, for the colonials pronounced to rhyme with cone or gone depending where you are from.
The town of Shrewsbury pronounced to rhyme with Shrow or Shrew

And finally for me
The fine city of Bath, pronounced to rhyme with Baaa (if you are from the area) or the harsher Ba if you are a Northern Monkey

 

I think our American friends have just as much trouble, especially with the size of the country what with parts of the Appalachians and Louisiana being almost another language.

 

Americans:
Lee Chester
War-wick

And the place outside Perth, Scotland is Scoon (Scone)

 

Isn't that miss Wales 2013........

 

Yeah, I know, it's a spectrum and boundary definitions are elastic but THIS is GREAT COUNTRY -



A good story - with more than a grain (!) of historical accuracy?

 

We recognise Ulster Scots as a precursor of the Americanism ‘Scots Irish’ but the movement of people to and within these islands over the last 6,000 years since the ice sheets retreated is as much a matter of archaeology and myth as fact. Identity is as much self perception as genetic.
Plenty of people like to think of themselves as something they are not! The DNA record shows (with individual variations) all ‘native’ Scots, Irish, Welsh and English are about 75% descended from the Beaker People (named for their pottery) who splashed across the North Sea when the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine which discharged into the Norwegian Sea somewhere up near Iceland. Later arrivals like Roman troops from all over their empire then Angles, Saxons, Danes, Jutes, Vikings, Hugenot French, you name it have topped off the genetic mix and continue to do so to this day.
Consequently your North American WASP was quite a mongrel before he hit your shores. Late 19C and 20C migration from the Old World stirred the pot every bit as much as the poor souls uprooted from Africa.
Throw in religious and dynastic wars on top of early kingdoms and it gets doubly confusing.

The Britons on this map we would now call Welsh. Their descendants in Northern Britain adopted a new language (English) but became Scots and some moved West and became Irish........see the problem? Britain is the same word as ‘Breton’ French from NW France and the Normans were French speaking Vikings, not Franks........

So both Catholic and Protestant Kennedys are pretty common and lots of American Irish aren’t! But don’t waste your time trying to convince them otherwise as myths take some shifting.....

 

Damn .... I wish I could write like that!!

 

Armstrong is a Borders name straddling the English Scots border but County Fermanagh and Ulster is full of them too thanks to C17 ‘issues’ that echo to this day. And the Uncle Sam plopped one on the Moon..... everyone claims him!