Somerset
About Somerset
Somerset, archaically Somersetshire, is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Bristol, and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. The largest settlement is the city of Bath.
On the show — 37 mentions total
Robert Dunning started in 1967 writing the authoritative history of Somerset and he worked at it for 40 years and has had to retire with only nine of his outlined 22 volumes finished.
from NSTAAF International Factball: Brazil v Croatia, 2014-06-12 at 00:11:31 · read transcript
Other times Somerset came up
We don't have any PPE. I think that's great. German doctors did the same thing. In 2022, a Somerset woman called Jill White did a fantastic nude protest on the A358 in Somerset. She's in a wheelchair, and the council had let the pavement by the side of this road get completely overgrown. She could not get along it in her wheelchair. You see the photos, it's ridiculous.
549: No Such Thing As A Beaver Walking Backwards, 2024-09-19 · listen
The reason was because people thought that herons defecated when taking flight which they do sometimes but not all the time there was a guy in the 19th century who wrote the Dictionary of West Somerset in 1875 and he said that the 29th of May is Shitsack Day and he writes this the writer of the dictionary says in the northwest of Somerset and North Devon it is common to hear boys call out on that day.
No Such Thing As A Lobster War, 2018-05-11 · listen
Physicists don't understand why it's missing an estimated 10,000 galaxies. There are 10,000 galaxies missing if anyone knows where they are, right into one show, I guess. Much like Somerset in that respect, in that it's so lovely there should be a lot more in it, but it's still very unpopulated for how gorgeous the place is. It's exactly like Somerset, yes. Are you saying that Somerset's a hole?
No Such Thing As A Fish: The One Show Special, 2015-11-19 · listen
The way Americans speak is the way that is proper English, is the English that we were speaking in the 17th century. We don't pronounce our ours, and that's wrong, and that's because spelling hasn't kept up with the way we speak. What do you mean don't pronounce it? Oh, God, I'm not going to be able to think of any examples now. You know, if we said, I've just got the word Somerset written down here. If we say Somerset, they'd say Somerset. Summer set. Summer set.
No Such Thing As A Song In The Sound Of Music, 2014-10-10 · listen
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Coordinates: 51.1000, -2.9000