#59481
03/08/2002 5:01 PM
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what/hut/not in Canada, none of these quite rhyme. Even twat doesn't quite rhyme with what....but it's close (for those indelicate enough to use it  such as, okay I'll admit it, me - but only under extenuating circumstances, honest!)
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#59482
03/08/2002 5:16 PM
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what and hut...yeah, unless i have on my 'formal' speaking voice, and then its slightly different..
but not, got, hot, are all closer to twat! then What or hut!
twat fall some where between not/got/hot and that/hat/sat!
OK, so we definatately need a list of words to be read..at wordapalooza.
we'll make up a list, and scrabble the list order, and then each person read the list.. and we'll try to deside what they are saying.. include American and Merkin, Roof and Rut, rough, car and care.. Mary and Marie, not and nut..
(i am sure this game will best played after a round or two of drinks has loosened everyones tongues!)
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#59483
03/08/2002 6:33 PM
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#59484
03/08/2002 9:15 PM
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Sorry, I was watching TV. You talking about what-nots, now? 
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#59485
03/08/2002 9:17 PM
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#59486
03/08/2002 9:33 PM
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#59487
03/08/2002 10:29 PM
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CK: to quote that eminent authority [namely you], "Good on ya, mate!"
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#59488
03/09/2002 3:27 AM
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A can of coke costs a buck! Mon Dieu, a 2L is only 99 cents. Come, we'll celebrate here in Montréal.
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#59489
03/09/2002 2:30 PM
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Congrats, CapK. I have a bottle of champagne chillin' in my fridge. Think I'll go pop the cork. 
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#59490
03/09/2002 3:02 PM
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only 99 cents
and that's Canadian.
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#59491
03/09/2002 3:24 PM
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Congrats, CapK. I have a bottle of champagne chillin' in my fridge. Think I'll go pop the cork.Yeah, thanks a heap, Connie Just pass me that glass, will yer? Ta ... 
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#59492
03/09/2002 3:32 PM
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How long's yer arm? [whistling "My Connie Lies Over the Ocean-e]
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#59493
03/27/2002 5:42 AM
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In reply to:
the rather rude "You twat!" - which, interestingly enough, is pronounced differently in the UK - where they make it rhyme with "cat" - from how it is pronounced in (scary loaded word coming up) the colonies, where it rhymes with "what."
However it's pronounced, I cannot forbear from bringing to the Board's notice Robert Browning's use of the word in his poem Pippa Passes:
Then, owls and bats,
Cowls and twats,
Monks and nuns, in a cloister's moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry!
When this was queried by his publisher, Browning in all innocence said that it was an item of nun's headgear, citing a 17th century ditty, where unfortunately it meant just what you'd expect but the poet had taken a wild guess at the meaning from context.
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#59494
03/27/2002 11:31 AM
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the poet had taken a wild guess at the meaning from context.
Yes, and no one ever got up the nerve to tell him what it really meant!
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#59495
03/27/2002 11:42 AM
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Well, Jackie, in the interests of philological certitude, perhaps you could explain to us exactly what it does mean.
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#59496
03/27/2002 12:05 PM
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Sigh--I found out yesterday that there was a term I knew nothing about, and which explains several posts that I had formerly looked at in dumb non-comprehension. I was talking with a Brit-speaking friend about the wayzgoose site, and reading about the Morris dancing group (side, rather, there--I kept asking "the side of what?"). I commented that it must be a rather remarkable group, when I read that at a gathering some of the dancers were legless.
For this I received: 1.)outrageously prolonged laughter, and 2.) the information that that meant they were drunk. Gave me a whole new perspective, Max, on your post title "Mav's legless".
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#59497
03/27/2002 12:06 PM
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Well, Bingley, I might, but I don't know what philological means.
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#59498
03/27/2002 12:18 PM
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Philological -- to do with philology
Philology -- the practice of philologists
Philologist -- one who loves and studies words, we denizens of AWADtalk basically.
Now, I repeat: in the interests of philological certitude, perhaps Jackie could explain to us exactly what twat does mean.
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#59499
03/27/2002 12:24 PM
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Gee--do philology and philately come from the same root?
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#59500
03/27/2002 1:45 PM
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They do. We are still waiting for your explanation of the poet's misunderstanding.
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#59501
03/27/2002 1:49 PM
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Probably - for a new word to be accpeted thoroughly and legitimately, it needs a philologists stamp of approval.
Or isn't that t'what Bingley was alluding?
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#59502
03/27/2002 1:58 PM
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What it means:
Speaking for our dear Gutter PolicePerson, to whom I owe a favor for pointing out my gutteral misinterpretation of today's Word, there are several beverages that were served to the steerage class passengers on the now defunct TransWorld Airlines' flights. These were TWA milk, TWA coffee and TWA tea.
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#59503
03/27/2002 2:52 PM
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hahaha. You are a rascal.
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#59504
03/28/2002 3:32 AM
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We are still waiting for your explanation of the poet's misunderstanding.
How the heck do I know? I reckon he ran in too genteel a circle to have heard the term; he was just too sweet and innocent--like thee and me.
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#59505
03/28/2002 3:38 AM
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he was just too sweet and innocent--like thee and me.
Tee hee! [snickering-e]
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#59506
03/28/2002 9:40 PM
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New Scientist for 2 March, OpinionFeedback,p.108:
".....Now we have the Meterological Offices Edinburgh division advertising online for "Climate Quality Controllers".
West Lothian reader Jim Bartholomew, who found this, says: "It's just the sort of thing we need up here in the middle of a dreich winter. .........."
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#59507
03/28/2002 9:53 PM
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#59508
03/28/2002 10:01 PM
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Dear Max: I could tell it meant unpleasant, but what are the specifications to the charge?
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#59509
03/28/2002 10:19 PM
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#59510
03/28/2002 10:44 PM
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Dear Max: "dreich" is not in several dictionaries I use. So perhaps "dialectic" might fit better than "slang".
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#59511
03/29/2002 5:20 AM
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Dreich may be the etymological forebear of drek, then. Any views?
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#59512
03/29/2002 1:12 PM
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I never knew this was a real word! it was like snafu, or faquary (a contraction, for "Where the F*** are we?") a word that i used all the time, but never thought about!
dreich, or as i think of it, dreek, is cold, left over, day old coffee, that you are drinking because there is no fresh coffee to brew up, or some such.. (how can you drink that dreek?) and or a cold, windy, rainy, grey winter's day.. the kind you wake and want to just get back under the covers with a nice cup of cocoa, and good book..
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#59513
03/29/2002 1:16 PM
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Gee--do philology and philately come from the same root?
Well, Phil O'logy was my ethics professor in college wheras Michael Philately is an Irish-American ex-riverdancer who tends to stamp quite a bit.
Okay, This isn't Wordplay and fun and I'm being flippant but I'm on a day off and I had to come into work to some stuff so I think I'm entitled to a bit of fun!
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#59514
03/29/2002 11:24 PM
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Dreich may be the etymological forebear of drek, then. Any views? CK, I cannot forebear [  ] saying, "Honor thy yiddish!" Dreck is yiddish, and a commonly-used word. dreck: slang Trash, especially inferior merchandise. ETYMOLOGY: German, dirt, trash and Yiddish drek, excrement http://www.bartleby.com/61/63/D0386300.html "Dreich" is obscure scottish, and is pronuonced with a long-e sound.
http://www.scotsmagazine.com/words.htm#D
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