Batting about the place

[commodorified]

I will be in London (England not Comma) on November 17, getting in at 3 p.m. and flying out the next day.

I am staying at YHA Oxford Street, which is handy to both Heathrow and some promising locations for a BatMoot.

Anyone care to meet up?

Comments

[commodorified]

Yes, sorry, nickname benet and I gave it when we lived there.

"I'm from London-comma-Ontario".

[graydon]

Thank you!

That seems a most entirely cromulent usage; I was wondering if it might have been "coma" but that is perhaps unkind.

[commodorified]

It's not particularly unkind :-)

[commodorified]

Benet's family had lived in both, you see, and so "London, England or London, Comma?" came into use as shorthand and then came in handy as a way of avoiding "I live in London [startled look as I have a deeply SW Ontario accent] [awkward pause] Ontario."

[graydon]

The awkward pause Paris, Ontario is not so well [known] as to provoke, yes. It seems an entirely practical usage.

With respect to accents, I was in England when I was 16 and retained far more of the Lanark County, Ontario accent than I now have. Someone there was trying to place my accent, asked me what county I was from, got told "Lanark" and then had a visible brain failure.

[commodorified]

Could be worse, mind.

Could be Paris.

[jsburbidge]

I'm pretty sure I have a cousin who married someone who came from Paris.

My father spent a chunk of time growing up in Scotland, which is close enough to Paris to make for "close" by rural standards, and my aunt, uncle and cousins stayed there. I have various cousins' in-laws from around the area.

Unlike my (and their) other cousins from the Ottawa Valley, they do not talk as though they had just come out from Perthshire.