• Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m struggling to remember where I heard it, but the phrase “west side of the east midlands” is a perfectly cromulant description in the UK.

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      3 months ago

      “west side of the east midlands”

      (I’m not from the UK) It makes sense to me. The Midlands is the middle part of England. It was later divided into the West and East Midlands, so you can live in the west side of East Midlands, as well as live in the east side of West Midlands. I think Derby or Leicester would count as “west side of East Midlands”.

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    3 months ago

    Oh you’re from NWSEA? Me too! Not from the SW hopefully, everybody there (about 83M people) is a simpleton or a degenerate. I’m from SSE, where it’s a completely different story.

  • Kayana@ttrpg.network
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    3 months ago

    We actually have something like that in Germany:

    In the region of Westphalia, there’s a part officially called East Westphalia (or Ostwestfalen in German). So you’re always wondering, is it in the east or in the west?