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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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How long's yer arm? [whistling "My Connie Lies Over the Ocean-e]
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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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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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Well, Jackie, in the interests of philological certitude, perhaps you could explain to us exactly what it does mean.
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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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Well, Bingley, I might, but I don't know what philological means.
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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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Gee--do philology and philately come from the same root?
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They do. We are still waiting for your explanation of the poet's misunderstanding.
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