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Ah, no YMMV page, as I'd put this bit here:

• The new comedy series The Wright Way is set in the fictional town of "Baselrickey", which judging by the accents is set somewhere in the south of England. But it was filmed in Stockport, in the town centre and the upscale suburb of Heaton Moor. so at least the TV crews aren't literally tripping over each other.

Inserted to mark the popularity of one Northern town as a film-set for Southern-based production companies: I lived in Heaton moor and at least three TV companies filmed major exterior shots for peak-time drama shows there, in the course of one year! (All passed off as being in London or the south). Gods know why, unless they see it as a cheap place to film with posh bits that can pass for upscale north London suburbs in a good light, but nowhere near as expensive as filming in Islington or Clapham Common or wherever. As YM clearly does V on this one, or it wouldn't have been cut, YMMV is the ideal place for it!

Okay, you seem to be forgetting that most of the South is the North reflected with London and the -sex's lumped in. Have you ever been to Devon? It's basically York with beaches and better weather. Plus, the North is by far richer than the South and now that the BBC have moved to Manchester oh, lookee, all the TV bosses are up here, too. There may be rich people in London but they're outnumbered at least 5:1 by the poor whereas up North people are generally quite well off. If you're homeless, where do you go? Greater London, not Greater Manchester. And now the BBC are here.

Also, the Northern pronunciation of 'up' is NOT 'oop'. Not unless we're trying to say it like that, or hanging on the word or something like that. You see, USA, we have this 26th letter in Europe. It's called 'u'. We use it in words like 'mum' and 'rumour' and it produces a sound that only the Brits, really, can pronounce that's a sort of u/o/e sound. We pronounce 'up' up North quite roughly, 'uhp' (only it sounds rough) whereas 'oop' sounds far too Northern Irish.

Did I mention: richer than down South and not all farmers. But, because I find it hilarious, I don't mind the name too much even though it's incorrect, possibly resulting from too many non-Northerners not doing a proper Northern accent properly. Which makes this even funnier. Some Lancastrians (a.k.a. wussies to the rest of the North) probably say it like that. Yeh, they're like a more wussy and chavvy version of Corrie and the rest of the North is like a not-so-much-farming version of Emmerdale. Also, everywhere is called -dale when you're not in Lancashire, and that's sarcastic in I'm saying it, not I'm subtlely trying to get at people who believe that. All the places have generally ancient etymology, with the exception of places that weren't named until recently and so have blatant names (e.g. a little village called 'Triangle' because it's shaped like a triangle).

We also say 'eh' (not as much as those from Canadia - we call it Canadia, alright!) and mush words together. And have our own language. Yes, not only are there ump-trillion-and-odd accents going around, there's also half that many languages.

Concerning this edit introduced back in August:

21st Aug '10 7:53:12 PM Spetsnaz1944 24.150.210.107

Many Americans still believe that Canadians speek with British accents

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Not to be confused with Canada, eh.

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Not to be confused with Canada, eh (although many Americans believe Canadians DO sound like that).

I really like how you used Viewers Are Morons to not-so-subtly insinuate that all Americans are morons, especially with a weasel word like "many."

I've taken the liberty of removing this bit of Flame Bait, as I'm pretty sure Spetsnaz1944 was deliberately slipping in a Take That!.