24 ~ Sunday, November 30, 1997 — North Shore News EVERY once in a while someone will say to me, "What part of England are you from?" Each time I have to say “I was born in Canada,” and then I either have to make a ~ long story out of it or accept that my questioner will sim- ply assume I am “showing off.” The long story is, that when I was seven-ish my mother divorced my father and married an Englishman. This man was not just your average Englishman, he was a Yorkshireman, too. These chaps are noted for a number of things, but mostly for their staunch sup- port of what is right, and “what is right” is precisely what they themselves deem it to be. I don't really know how it came about that they have this what you could call power, but they have it, and Richards ho THIS June, Dal Richards will be con- ducting from Russia with love. - The big-band leader will be host aboard a Russian river cruise and is inviting, seniors to cruise along with him. The tour is organized and conducted by Collette Tours. Travel Buddies and Ensign Travel of Victoria are working together to book the cruise. Travel Buddies finds partners for single travellers to help defray costs. The journcy begins June 11 with an overnight flight to London. Following a day in London, and a short stay in Moscow, travellers will board © an Odessa America cruise ship for a 15-day journcy down the Volga River. Richards will be in North Vancouver on Monday to pro- mote the cruise. There will be a video presentation from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at North Shore Neighbourhood House, 225 Fast 2nd St. Richards is expect- ed to play a few tunes on his saxophone. Pre-registration is required by cctling 1-800-998-9099. Admission to the information session is by cash or toy dona- tion to the Christmas Bureau. — Layne Christensen fo, do not suffer its being ques- tioned, especially by some- one in the New World. New World people have no status whatsoever in Yorkshire, I tell you truce. There is no “coming-to- terms” with a Yorkshireman, especially regarding speech. {t's as though thev, and only they, have a lock not only on the use of, but also the prop- er pronunciation of this English language as rendered by these chaps. And that's why I talk funny. As I say, I was going on seven when he was installed in our home, and I was therefore very vulnerable to north shore news 4 SENIORS Diction lessons from a Yorkshireman instruction. My sister,who was almost tk, and my brother, already 15, were borh tsugher than I and both rejected reorgani- zation of their speech, not without creating a lot of acrimony. Me, | hated acrimony even at thar age, and I gave in. One of my first instruc- tions had to do with “moun- tain.” The Yorkshireman deplored the Canadian pro- nunciation, claiming that we all said “mountn,” not even moving our lips, and he couldn't tolerate this. One must say “mount-an” with full rounded emphasis on the first syllable. “Water” was another of his hang-ups. Canadians say “wadder” according to the Yorkshireman, and so ] must carry the flag and learn to enunciate “water” with a nicely rounded “w” and a Sts river cruise Photo Wildman Photography DAL Richards visits North) Shore Neighbourhood House Monday to promote a Volga River cruise the big-band leader will host in June. ~ @ $1,000,000 Cash Prize Jan.27 @ $1,000,000 in 20 Luxury Cars @ $100,000 Cash Second Prize * @ $75,000 Early Bird Cash Prize Dec.30 ® $200,000 More Cash Prizes Grand clear “ah™ and crisp “t.” So new vou know why I talk funny, although Pm sure Pye got over a Jot of my ancient instruction, simply because Fam no longer in the Yorkshireman’s jurisdic- tion, But because of the hun- dreds of lines I wrote tor him — “E must take care to pronounce my words clear- ly" — I was very careful to save myseif'a lot of writing time. It’s taken years to break down that careful speech, but F flatrer myself” that I°m fairly ordinary nowadays. Tcan still get a kick out of remembering it all, and I find I get a real bang out of a newish section in our daily paper that deals with a Jot of our currently sloppy speech. The Yorkshireman would have a fit. What he most feared, I think, was a threatening debasement of the English language by our American neighbors. He was probably right, and much of our daily conversations and the con- tent of a lot of our reading matter would support that fear. In fact, a recent City Limits feature in the Vancouver Sun had a section devoted te some of the more outré of the Americans’ treatment of the King’s English, quoting from vari- ous of the mostly southern states, As in “pert near,” which would indicate “pretty close” to a person from Kansas City, and “Snot yours smine” lets a friend in New Jersey know that he’s got a mistaken grip on your belongings. 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