on 21/3/01 8:07 am, Mike Chaney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Question;- What is Tunbridge Wells?.
>
> Not what, but where? It is (was!) a very genteel town in Kent - South East
> England for the geographically challenged. (England is part of an island on
> the Eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean.)
>
> Many years ago, "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" was the pseudonym used by a
> regular correspondent to (I think) the BBC - or was it The Times
> newspaper? - and the phrase has since been absorbed into the language.
>
> Some UK place names sound a bit odd when received on the other side of the
pond. An American friend always found the town name "Dorking" - to be very
amusing but I never did find out why.
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Yours Aye
Tag Gorton
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