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#6791 09/21/00 07:14 AM
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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.

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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" ?


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It is, alas, too late to ask her.

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You could try "the usual medium"


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<"the usual medium">

@heaven.org ?


#6796 09/22/00 02:38 PM
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@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?


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you didn't make this a live link.

Surely it couldn't be, by definition?





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