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With all due respect to your Mum, I doubt she looked and sounded just like Dame Thora Hird did when my Great Auntie Mary said it to me. (Fortunately her and my Great Uncle Harry never needed a Stannah stair lift like Dame Thora did as they lived in a bungalow in Hinckley.)

Watford Gap. I was born and grew up here, but all my family are from the Midlands and I've always thought that as the north to me, personally I've never seen a difference. Relatives inserting the word 'our' or 'ar' before saying my first name, referring to Sussex as 'down south' and being called...