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Butties are edible in England?
Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this sentence, "We'd just been to Stanley to look at the other one, were tucking into our bacon butties and then we got the call to come here!"
So, just what are bacon butties?
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http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm objectid=142882&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=shell-shocked name page.html May 30 2004
By Caroline Smith, Sunday Sun
A North man was in shell shock yesterday after bomb disposal experts were called out to deal with what he thought was an unusual paperweight.
The object had been gathering dust on Phil Cullen's bookshelf for years until explosives experts removed it, fearing it could be a live device.
Phil, 37, alerted the Army yesterday after reading about a similar-looking object which turned out to be a fuse for a Second World War mortar shell.
And experts from the Royal Logistic Corps, based at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, revealed they had examined a device identical to Phil's just hours earlier at a house in Stanley in County Durham.
They also carried out a controlled detonation of a bomb on Thursday which had been stored in a garage in Hartlepool for over 20 years.
"My uncle Jimmy was in the Air Force and I think he brought it back from Aden or Suez in the 1950s.
"It was always knocking round at my mum's and I have had it in my house for 12 years. I used it as a paperweight.
"It has what looks like Arabic writing on the side and there is a ticking sound if you turn it upside down.
"I thought it might be some kind of anti-aircraft device. I saw the story about the live bomb and it looked exactly the same as the one I had.
"I thought I better get it checked out in case it turned out to have the same explosive potential."
Staff Sergeant Paul Sargent took the fuse away for disposal.
"I hadn't seen one of these in 23 years and yet it is the second one I have seen this morning.
"We'd just been to Stanley to look at the other one, were tucking into our bacon butties and then we got the call to come here!
"It is possible that it is a live fuse, but without taking it away for examination I can't tell whether it has a top detonator or not.
"There would be quite a pop if it was functioning so we will take it away for safety."
Al in Dallas
So, just what are bacon butties?
At, http://tinyurl.com/2c2u5 or
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/news/tm objectid=142882&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=shell-shocked name page.html May 30 2004
By Caroline Smith, Sunday Sun
A North man was in shell shock yesterday after bomb disposal experts were called out to deal with what he thought was an unusual paperweight.
The object had been gathering dust on Phil Cullen's bookshelf for years until explosives experts removed it, fearing it could be a live device.
Phil, 37, alerted the Army yesterday after reading about a similar-looking object which turned out to be a fuse for a Second World War mortar shell.
And experts from the Royal Logistic Corps, based at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, revealed they had examined a device identical to Phil's just hours earlier at a house in Stanley in County Durham.
They also carried out a controlled detonation of a bomb on Thursday which had been stored in a garage in Hartlepool for over 20 years.
"My uncle Jimmy was in the Air Force and I think he brought it back from Aden or Suez in the 1950s.
"It was always knocking round at my mum's and I have had it in my house for 12 years. I used it as a paperweight.
"It has what looks like Arabic writing on the side and there is a ticking sound if you turn it upside down.
"I thought it might be some kind of anti-aircraft device. I saw the story about the live bomb and it looked exactly the same as the one I had.
"I thought I better get it checked out in case it turned out to have the same explosive potential."
Staff Sergeant Paul Sargent took the fuse away for disposal.
"I hadn't seen one of these in 23 years and yet it is the second one I have seen this morning.
"We'd just been to Stanley to look at the other one, were tucking into our bacon butties and then we got the call to come here!
"It is possible that it is a live fuse, but without taking it away for examination I can't tell whether it has a top detonator or not.
"There would be quite a pop if it was functioning so we will take it away for safety."
Al in Dallas
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[/nq] It's just another name for a sarnie. Chip butties are very popular here in the North. DC
- [/nq] It's just another name for a sarnie.
- Chip butties are very popular here in the North.
- DC
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[nq:1]Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this sentence, "We'd just been to Stanley to look at the other one, were tucking into our bacon butties and then we got the call to come here!" So, just what are bacon butties?[/nq]
It's just another name for a sarnie. Chip butties are very popular here in the North.
DC
It's just another name for a sarnie. Chip butties are very popular here in the North.
DC
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Al in Dallas typed thus:
[nq:1]Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this sentence, "We'd just been to Stanley to look at the other one, were tucking into our bacon butties and then we got the call to come here!" So, just what are bacon butties?[/nq]
buttie = sandwich
"bacon", BTW is not the dreadful stuff served in US hotels for breakfast, which is sweet cu
[nq:1]Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this sentence, "We'd just been to Stanley to look at the other one, were tucking into our bacon butties and then we got the call to come here!" So, just what are bacon butties?[/nq]
buttie = sandwich
"bacon", BTW is not the dreadful stuff served in US hotels for breakfast, which is sweet cu
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[nq:1]Al in Dallas typed thus:[/nq]
[nq:2]Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this ... call to come here!" So, just what are bacon butties?[/nq]
[nq:1]buttie = sandwich "bacon", BTW is not the dreadful stuff served in US hotels for breakfast, which is sweet cured ... inhabited by Diddymen, of which one part is the Jam Buttie Mine from which the Jam Butties are
[nq:2]Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this ... call to come here!" So, just what are bacon butties?[/nq]
[nq:1]buttie = sandwich "bacon", BTW is not the dreadful stuff served in US hotels for breakfast, which is sweet cured ... inhabited by Diddymen, of which one part is the Jam Buttie Mine from which the Jam Butties are
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[nq:1]Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this sentence, "We'd just been to Stanley to look at the other one, were tucking into our bacon butties and then we got the call to come here!" So, just what are bacon butties?[/nq]
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The singular sandwich is usually spelt "butty", even in N. England.
But in answer to the OP's subject line ... not all but
(Snip)
The singular sandwich is usually spelt "butty", even in N. England.
But in answer to the OP's subject line ... not all but
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[nq:2]Al in Dallas typed thus: buttie = sandwich "bacon", BTW ... Buttie Mine from which the Jam Butties are dug up.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Diddies" are a term for the female ******* for some of the Irish.[/nq]
Also a term for *****.
[nq:1]"Diddies" are a term for the female ******* for some of the Irish.[/nq]
Also a term for *****.
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[nq:1]Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this sentence, "We'd just been to Stanley to look at the other one, were tucking into our bacon butties and then we got the call to come here!" So, just what are bacon butties?[/nq]
Buttered rolls with bacon.
Pronounced "byeakin boeties"
The "u" in "butties" rhymes with the "u" in "sugar".
Steve Hayes from
Buttered rolls with bacon.
Pronounced "byeakin boeties"
The "u" in "butties" rhymes with the "u" in "sugar".
Steve Hayes from
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[nq:1]"Diddies" are a term for the female ******* for some of the Irish.[/nq]
Is that where thet pronounciation of "t" as "d" in some American dialects comes from, pronouncing "water" as "wahdr", for example?
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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Is that where thet pronounciation of "t" as "d" in some American dialects comes from, pronouncing "water" as "wahdr", for example?
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/A
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[nq:2]"Diddies" are a term for the female ******* for some of the Irish.[/nq]
[nq:1]Is that where thet pronounciation of "t" as "d" in some American dialects comes from, pronouncing "water" as "wahdr", for example?[/nq]
I wouldn't think so. The Irish do well with "t"s. It's the following "h" that eludes them in certain words. You hear "t'ings" and "t'anks". They'd drive Franke nuts with th
[nq:1]Is that where thet pronounciation of "t" as "d" in some American dialects comes from, pronouncing "water" as "wahdr", for example?[/nq]
I wouldn't think so. The Irish do well with "t"s. It's the following "h" that eludes them in certain words. You hear "t'ings" and "t'anks". They'd drive Franke nuts with th
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[nq:2]Is that where thet pronounciation of "t" as "d" in some American dialects comes from, pronouncing "water" as "wahdr", for example?[/nq]
[nq:1]I wouldn't think so. The Irish do well with "t"s.[/nq]
And yet I've heard the American rhotic pronunciation of "water" (wadder) described by BrE speakers as
sounding "Irish".
Michael West
Melbourne, Australia
[nq:1]I wouldn't think so. The Irish do well with "t"s.[/nq]
And yet I've heard the American rhotic pronunciation of "water" (wadder) described by BrE speakers as
sounding "Irish".
Michael West
Melbourne, Australia
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[nq:2]I wouldn't think so. The Irish do well with "t"s.[/nq]
[nq:1]And yet I've heard the American rhotic pronunciation of "water" (wadder) described by BrE speakers as sounding "Irish".[/nq]
The Belfast accent is harder and harsher than the accents of most in the ROI. I haven't heard enough of the Belfast accent to know if they say "wadder". True Dubs can sound harsh. I haven't heard it f
[nq:1]And yet I've heard the American rhotic pronunciation of "water" (wadder) described by BrE speakers as sounding "Irish".[/nq]
The Belfast accent is harder and harsher than the accents of most in the ROI. I haven't heard enough of the Belfast accent to know if they say "wadder". True Dubs can sound harsh. I haven't heard it f
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