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Topic Options #2621 - 05/18/00 04:42 PM look out! tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass the weekly worthless word is: gardyloo proposed: the word gardyloo, now fallen into desuetude, shall be resurrected and required as a warning cry whenever a congressman is about to put voice to a declamation within the Hallowed Halls of Congress [or substitute 'minister' and 'Parliament'] gardyloo - used in Edinburgh, in the days when chamber pots were in common use, as a warning cry when throwing slops from the windows into the streets; [perhaps from French garde a l'eau - look out for the water; also possibly the source of the word loo] http://members.aol.com/tsuwm Top #2622 - 05/19/00 04:15 AM Re: look out! jmh Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/22/00 Posts: 1981 Of course we still do that in Edinburgh! Top #2623 - 05/20/00 07:56 AM Re: look out! paulb addict Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 460 Loc: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Brewer has a wonderful citation from Smollett’s ‘Humphry Clinker’: "At ten o’clock at night the whole cargo of the chamber utensils is flung out of a back window that looks into some street or lane, and the maid calls "Gardy loo" to the passengers." Smollett doesn’t record any response from the ‘passengers’. A great way to start the day (see the ‘se’nnight’ post) Top #2624 - 05/21/00 12:10 AM Re: look out! Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11579 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky Is it possible? Do I dare? I tremblingly submit to the Supreme one a tentative, uncertain correction: 'garde' is the French word used for the singular You. 'Gardez' goes with the plural You, which is much more likely to have been called down to a street full of people. Gardez probably descended to gardy. Incidentally--I just saw and tried "that markup thang" (hi, Anna) and couldn't figger it out--will keep tryin'. Top #2625 - 05/21/00 12:43 AM Re: garde vs. gardez tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass Jackie, I actually have to say that I'm sure I really just don't know. http://members.aol.com/tsuwm Top #2626 - 05/26/00 08:11 AM Re: Edinburgh-ness paulb addict Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 460 Loc: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Jmh: I came across this passage today in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s end, set around the period of World War I: "There was in Edinburgh a society … where the ladies are all great ladies in tall drawing-rooms; circumspect yet shrewd; still yet with a sense of the comic; frugal yet warmly hospitable. It was perhaps just Edinburgh-ness … " Top #2627 - 05/26/00 08:30 AM Re: Edinburgh-ness jmh Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/22/00 Posts: 1981 I don't know the quote but Edinburgh (in particular Morningside, where I live) is well known for its ladies. Well dressed, shrewd ladies who know the correct way to pour a cup of tea and know the right way to serve shortbread with precisely the right kind of doily. Cross them if you dare! Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8426 Members 16 Forums 13687 Topics 209797 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members sylviasuper, continent2, a2teacher, teepee, smoothcriminal86 8426 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 21 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 87 wofahulicodoc 56 jenny jenny 56 endymion6 49 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 33 Faldage 14 Buffalo Shrdlu 14 zmjezhd 13 tsuwm 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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