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No saint of his time or country had more frequent or affectionate intercourse than Cuthbert with the nuns, whose numbers and influence were daily increasing among the Anglo-saxons, and especially in Northumberland.
While in Northumberland I did serve my time on a coble, a traditional fishing boat working out of that tiny harbor not far from the Scottish border, and it was during those years at sea that I learned some of the more subtle intricacies of Northumbrian, in particular that most flexible of all words-- Aye .
Not altogether surprisingly, the drill-words are almost without exception spoken with great clarity, from Bristol to Northumberland and Liverpool to Lowland Scots.
Even though I consider Northumberland and the Scottish Borders to be home, technically I am still a Yorkshireman, and, having been raised in that county of virtually unshakable local accents, it was natural that my tongue would give me away and that I would be called a Yorkie when living in Northumberland.
The island nestles snugly in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, separated from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by the Northumberland Strait.