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[thebruce87m]

Interesting, there’s even a Reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/qo491p/does_anyone_a...

Note for non-UK people, any references to “north” in the thread are for the north of England only. English people will call the north of England “the north” even in a UK context.

[bowsamic → thebruce87m]

It’s further complicated since the West Midlands will be considered north by southerners but south by northerners

[thebruce87m → bowsamic]

Reminds me of game of thrones when they go north of the wall and get called southerners. It’s all the south or deep south to me!

[Turing_Machine → thebruce87m]

Or like the way that in the U.S. north a Yankee is someone from New England, in the U.S. south a Yankee is anyone from the U.S. north, and in much of the rest of the world, a Yankee is anyone from the United States.