Counties in Which East Midlands English Is Spoken
- Derbyshire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Northamptonshire
- Rutland
- Staffordshire (Limited usage around Burton-upon-Trent)
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“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (18891944)
“Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.”
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“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look, word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)