#77213
07/29/2002 9:18 PM
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My dictionary lists "neap" as an adjective. Only usage I have ever seen is "neap tide".
I challenge the board to find its use any other way. (I cannot.)
Don't tell me it takes a neap of living to make a house a home.
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#77214
07/29/2002 9:37 PM
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The height between high-water mark at neap tide and mean low-water mark at spring tide is called the neap rise. [Encycl. Brit., 1888]
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#77215
07/29/2002 9:38 PM
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OK. For a possible example: neap flush - the result of putting two bricks into WC storage tank.
Formerly recommended to conserve water.
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#77216
07/30/2002 12:13 PM
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...often served with haggis.
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#77218
07/30/2002 2:27 PM
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isn't there a Monty Python skit with Neap?
Neap, Neap, Neap? where they say Neap, as has been suggested that "rhubard" , is sometimes used.. a background word to suggest conversation.
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#77220
07/30/2002 11:04 PM
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Speaking of haggis, I read yesterday it did not originate in Scotland, but in EnglandAh, but no oatmeal in this recipe, Bill. Vital ingredient, methinks! The closest current English equivalent to haggis is faggots, but it's a way off, albeit yummy. Neaps = carrot & swede, eh, Auntie? I could handle being a Scot!  
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#77221
07/31/2002 12:13 AM
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Neaps = carrot & swede, eh, Auntie?
Dunno, Fiskling.... allus thought it was taters & swede (turnip to USns) but.
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#77222
07/31/2002 1:25 PM
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allus thought it was taters & swedeMcAuntie, I was just thinking you may as well call neaps and tatties "swede and double tatties" if that were the case, then checked out this site: http://www.hwatson.force9.co.uk/cookbook/menus/burns.htmSo basically neaps are (mashed) turneaps = turnips = swede[ish turnip], and nothing more. Funny, I was almost sure there was more to them than that, and should know really, as my best mate is a Scot. 
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#77223
07/31/2002 1:37 PM
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...as my best mate is a Scot. Then you at least know about the uneven-legged mountainside-dwelling haggis, mein ephew. 
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#77224
07/31/2002 1:44 PM
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>uneven-legged mountainside-dwelling haggis
the gyascutis?! the Side-hill Lancer??
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#77225
07/31/2002 1:46 PM
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formerly known as etaoin...
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#77226
07/31/2002 2:21 PM
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Then you at least know about the uneven-legged mountainside-dwelling haggis
Oh yes Nauntie. Very useful creatures - you eat the insides and make wind instruments out of the outsides.
And the sound of the instruments is uncannily similar to the death-wail of the little beasties...
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