‘Yellow Fork’

11:20am Tuesday 4th September 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter

ARE your jolly readers aware that “Yellow Fork” is spreading as a metaphor for their dear old city, the “Mother” York?

Perhaps the source of this welcome development is in Kevin Trudeau’s book, Mega Memory. Wherever it springs from, it has support down here. I’m prompted to imagine eggy breakfast forks in the early shadows of the beloved walls.

Ron Willis, First Avenue, Mount Lawley, Western Australia.

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sheps lad says...
12:00pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Too much ****?

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Firedrake says...
12:33pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Not so much a metaphore as rhyming slang, I think. Or am I missing something?

I'm reminded, though, of an incident shortly after I moved into the locality in the 70s. A driver stopped and asked me for directions to "Selby Fort". Though aware of a couple Civil War skirmishes in the Selby area, I was pretty sure that no fortifications as such had survived. I asked him to repeat his question several times in case I'd misheard, but he seemed to be saying "Fort" each time. Only after he'd driven away with a despairing look did I realise he'd said "Selby Fork" - which didn't mean anything to me either, until kind friends gently intoduced me to a certain motel on the A1!

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Seadog says...
8:35pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Ah ... methinks you area southerner! As such, you will have been conditioned into anticipating the glottalling of apical consonants such as /t/ without realizing that here in the North the same thing can happen to velar-plosives such as /k/. That said, if your passing motorist was himself a southerner, I'd expect a degree of "L-vocalization", in which case he would have said something like "Se'wby Fawk"!

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Seadog says...
8:35pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Ah ... methinks you area southerner! As such, you will have been conditioned into anticipating the glottalling of apical consonants such as /t/ without realizing that here in the North the same thing can happen to velar-plosives such as /k/. That said, if your passing motorist was himself a southerner, I'd expect a degree of "L-vocalization", in which case he would have said something like "Se'wby Fawk"!

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Seadog says...
8:35pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Ah ... methinks you area southerner! As such, you will have been conditioned into anticipating the glottalling of apical consonants such as /t/ without realizing that here in the North the same thing can happen to velar-plosives such as /k/. That said, if your passing motorist was himself a southerner, I'd expect a degree of "L-vocalization", in which case he would have said something like "Se'wby Fawk"!

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Seadog says...
8:35pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Drat these double posts!

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mel_drew says...
9:28pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Double? We wish.

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