[Charlie Farley]

I think it`s Stanley Unwin you`re thinking of, Dancing. He made a career out of talking gibberish - most of us are just amateurs - and always finished his sketches with "Goodlybyeloads" for goodbye and some other nonsense, as I recall. God, that`s going back a bit.

Apparently, all these accents are the leftovers from regional dialects that were, until relatively recently, mutually unintelligible. So, say, a peasant from Kent and one from Yorkshire - in the unlikely event of their meeting -  wouldn`t have been able to understand a word each other said and it was only the coming of the railways that allowed most people to travel any distance that standardised the language. Amazing, isn`t it. Different cities in the UK even had their own time-zones before the railways arrived. And that`s only a couple of hundred years ago.

Being a bit of a nerd , it was the railway times system that brought real synchronised  time to the UK . Arrivals and departures had to be accurate for both the railway  employees and travellers for the success of the companies . Previously villages and even reasonable sized towns were governed by wayward Church clock/bells and alternating sunsets and sunrise times .

I have a book on Rock Formations in the Italian Alps if anyone wishes to borrow it  ~