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From: "David Lamb" <>
Subject: Re: New Year Resolutions for Essex-UK Subscribers
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:19:13 -0000
References: <BA3B573B.764B%jools@maxnet.co.nz>


Hello,

It is not only "the colonials" who may need an explanation of the meaning of
"Essex girls", let alone jibes about them! I think I said this when the
topic last came up on the list, but the term (at least in my experience)
refers to girls from the part of Essex near to London (places like Romford,
Ilford, Chigwell and so on) as in the TV sit-com "Birds of a Feather." Why
girls from (say) Colchester, Halstead or Clacton don't seem to be included
in the term, I don't know. I do know that the dialect in north east Essex
is quite different from that in Romford, etc, which always sounds much more
like a London dialect to me - perhaps that has something to do with it.


----- Part of Original Message -----
From: "Julie Skellern" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: New Year Resolutions for Essex-UK Subscribers

>
> (Unless it's a jibe about Essex girls, which could probably do with some
> explaining for the colonials!!)
>
> Julie M Skellern,
> NEW ZEALAND
>
>
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