A recent poll suggests that northerners are funnier than southerners - something that, us northerners, already know.
The study was conducted a few years ago by Comedy Central Live that took on board the opinions of 1,500 British people, split 50/50 (northerners/southerners).
Incredibly a massive 75 percent agreed that northerners have a better sense of humour.
Scousers were voted as being the funniest lot, with Liverpool racking up majority of the vote (23 percent), followed closely by Newcastle (14 percent).
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Third place went to London (12 percent), which isn't surprising as there's nothing funny about charging a tenner for a pint.
Looking lower down the list, the least funny city was Brighton (two percent) with Belfast, Bristol and Birmingham beating it with three per cent.
Elsewhere, Glasgow was voted as the being home to the dirtiest jokers, which I'm sure Frankie Boyle would be pleased with, and Londoners polled top for most sarcastic. Well done, guys.
The poll also found that on average British people laugh out loud 11 times a day, which seems a bit low for me, but then I am northern.
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And 17 percent of people confessed that nobody ever laughed at their jokes... Presumably those from Brighton, Belfast, Bristol and Birmingham.
However, there is some bad news for us northerners.
According to a study from the University of Portsmouth, by 2066, the northern dialects and accents may largely disappear due to the constant change in northern pronunciations.
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Sayings such as - 'What it is right, me boiler's gone and me 'ouse is dead cold' - are supposedly in risk of extinction.
Researchers conducted a sample which involved 50,000 English speakers and looked at the change in dialect data from the 1950s to 2016.
"We built a physics model, which accounted for people moving around their home location and sometimes going further afield - for instance for jobs or marriage - and we also accounted for how people learn language.
"We ran the model with correct population distributions and migration patterns in the 1900s and then rolled it forward to 2000.
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"We then compared the model maps to the dialect maps and found that our modelling could predict how the English language will evolve over the next 40 years or so.
"In about 1900, almost everybody said 'thawing' pronounced 'thaw-wing', but the majority of people now pronounce the word "thawing" with an intrusive 'r', which means it sounds like 'thaw-ring'.
"Our model predicts this change happened over about 25 years."
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