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> the thing that (secretly) amuses me is that many of the obscure words that I feature haven't actually been spoken since.. oh, the Great Vowel Shift maybe?! The Great Vowel Shift - you are referring to Glaswegian, no doubt? Pick a vowel, any vowel...they'll shift it somewhere you'll never expect it. For example, their i -> e shift causes no end of trouble. I was at a conference in Glasgow with a few younger colleagues a few years ago; one of the lads was trying to chat up a local lass in a very loud music bar. He suggested that she join us in a heavy rock club later that night. Her response initially enthralled him: he thought she said "I love to get up for sex in the morning". I've struck gold, thought he! She had actually said "I have to get up at six in the morning". Several confusing sentences later as his smooth moves were being perplexingly rebuffed, he realised too late he'd got it wrong...very wrong.
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The Great Vowel Shift - you are referring to Glaswegian, no doubt?
Nope, I don't think he was. He was referring to the one that took place between Middle English and Early Modern English. I was once the other half of a discussion in a club in Columb St Minor in the mid-'80s. The other half was a Glaswegian RAF NCO. His opening speech lasted nearly ten minutes and I could only identify one word, an oft-used expletive used as an intensifier.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Speaking of dialects: the first person to correctly guess what word (in English--I heard that!) is pronounced eee-yuht wins a...what? Oh, I know: a case of Bollinger's. Come to my house tomorrow and I'll give it to you.
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idiot. (if I got it, I'll be there at eight.)
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Yet.
Edit: Lookin' up Bollinger's to see what I bring along to the party. Woo-woo!
Last edited by belMarduk; 05/11/10 04:49 PM.
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I'll vote for eyot, though it feels like the hog is getting dirtier this way.
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In the South, in certain positions within the rhythm of a sentence: "it"
"Eee-yuht was guuud, Byebee."
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Wait, wait, can I change my answer?
I think it is yacht - you know, the watercraft.
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