Does anybody else remember being told that as a child? My grandmother (who was from the south of Scotland) used it a lot. It means something like "Be careful not to spill anything on your clothes while you're eating." I also remember "You've slittered" being used when someone had spilt something. I've never met anyone who knows this sense of the word or managed to find it in a dictionary.

Bingley

Grandmothers have a lot to answer for. My own Grandma's contribution to the language was to request that we pile the coal on the fire and "have a good blizzy" on a cold winter's night.

"Slitter" is not one I've ever come across, even from my half-Scottish wife, who uses her fair share of dialect words. I am wondering if your Grandmother would claim - along with the White Knight - that "It's my own invention" ?

It is, alas, too late to ask her.

Bingley

You could try "the usual medium"

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@heaven.org ?

@heaven.org ?

I notice you didn't make this a live link.

Does this imply lack of faith in the technology, or lack of technology in the faith?

you didn't make this a live link.

Surely it couldn't be, by definition?