IT may be a well-used word locally but it seems not many people elsewhere know that a Barrovian is someone from Barrow.
The slang term for someone from Barrow appeared on the BBC One gameshow Pointless this week.
In the show teams of two contestants attempt to find correct but obscure answers to general knowledge questions in order to score as few points as possible, and become eligible to compete for the show's cash jackpot. All questions used on the show are factual in nature, and are asked to a panel of 100 individuals in a pre-conducted public survey.
Contestants seek to find correct answers that were given by as few participants as possible; those given by no participants are termed "pointless" and are the most desirable.
When the public was asked where a Barrovian was from, just 41 per cent knew they hail from Barrow-in-Furness.
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