I only googled one local newspaper, so that's why a 'very small number of journalists' came up. If the term wasn't in common parlance, their Editor would have been inundated with letters from baffled readers.
From the same article, "The name has continued in use as a geographic term and in the names of institutions such as Humberside Police and Humberside Fire Service."
Is that honestly your argument to support it being in common usage for over 100 years? There was a mention or two of it in the Hull daily Mail in the 1890's and nobody complained or asked for elaboration? Irrefutable proof there mate, the question is of what?
Agro, I'm afraid your making yourself look a grade one clown here. Humberside was never a commonly used name for this area and it never will be. Though I withdraw my suggestion that you should stop digging, I'm now interested to see how deep the hole gets.
Which as I said earlier, shows it as a fallacious argument as they don't relate geographically and could equally be called DMD's detectives or TANYA. What that misses, is the word "inaccurate" or "meaningless" given that there are no designated geographic boundaries to the term.
sorry dutch. ever tried to call a mackem a geordie, however i think you ll find that there is a region called tyne and wear. not tyneside or wearside i might add
Being used once or twice in the 1890's by a journalist in the HDM hardly supports a claim of it being in common parlance for over 100 years does it. How often do you laugh at someone saying 'it must be true, I read it in the Hull Daily Mail?
Of course I have. I can't help it if they don't know their own history. The makem thing was invented relatively recently to separate them from the other geordies.
by chance, do you live in English Channel-side in South Sussex? That would obviously link you as a region to Northern France in common parlance of course!
It often cropped up on Grandstand and in the national press before 1974 to describe this part of the country, a bit like 'A trip to the West Country now as we go over to Ashton Gate' Do you think there are some posters on the Bristol City forum furiously denying the West Country exists and that it not common parlance? Ditto 'the south coast'...... 'Ando next week the Tigers travel to the south coast. which locals say doesn't exist..'
They should insist on calling northern France 'Chanelside', see how them French ****ers like them onions.
The link to the HDM site's ****ing brill. The hits are mainly adverts for a guy in Barton called Dinsdale, flogging anything from harmonium's to terriers. What tickles me is, unless someone called Dmsdtle lives with Mr Dinsdale they manage to spell his name wrong several times, and even manage to spell 'For Sale' wrong on occasions. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Well as a fully fledged member of the Yorkshire Riding Society, this is a topic we discussed numerous times, and one that was brought up by numerous members. We came to the conclusion after a full debate that Humberside does not exsist anymore. Those who believe it did used the fact some of little knowledge still use it, unfortunately in the real world we deal with facts. If you wish i can produce the minutes to the hour long debate.
I called a Mackem a Geordie in Whitby once. He faced me up. So i nutted him. His friend then took a swing at me,so i made him aware his coeliac plexus was unprotected.
That's because it's deliberately semi-encrytped. To read the proper articles you have to pay a subscription and can also print stuff out from their scanned pages. Simple really.
And just to show how much we all care about Jimmy Bullard, we have swiftly moved on to discussing Geography and regional titles!
