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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 5 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 Re: But it's so musical... #9202 11/03/00 03:07 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 L'Ayleur delay Wonderful I have often thought about forming a Guy Fawkes Party, with the intention of re-introducing fireworks (big time) to the Mother of Parliaments, raddled old whore that she's become! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: But it's so musical... #9203 11/03/00 03:17 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK Sorry but Buck House goes first. At least Pugin was an architect (frothy though he may have been). Buck House, to me, seems to have no redeeming features. (We might even be able to get rid of some of the less savoury Royals...) cheer the sunshine (not really sure if I have republican tendencies) warrior Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: New Words (Again!) #9204 11/03/00 03:30 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy OP Carpal Tunnel OP of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Oh Fredbear is a fuzzy wuzzy bear! Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he? and as for th sound like a f in beginning of a word, I guess the river is the fames, or "fems" not not the "tems"? Is it a general rule (I've never noticed it--) or a sometimes rule? Lost in one of the threads is a bit about Cockney's and Heagles, and Howls and 'awks. In part of Appalachia, (US), Its becomes Hits, but only when Its is first word of the sentence, or some other very special circumstances. my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Steadily veering off thread #9205 11/03/00 03:37 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK Is it a general rule (I've never noticed it--) or a sometimes rule? I don't know if you have ever seen, or have access to, a BBC soap called EastEnders (it fil ne bet ne werse than any others), but, exaggerated though it may be, the accents pretty accurately reflect the East End/near Essex accent of which (along with RP) Estuary English is the bastard child. The point is that the 'f' and 'v' thing is virtually a rule: bruv/bruvver (brother) fick (thick) I have also noticed, over the past few years, the tendency of those with sarf Lunnon accents to slur their esses ('s's), so 'stupid' comes out 'shtupid' and so on. This is a tendency particularly prevalent amongst teenage girls (in my experience) and women in their early twenties. Has anybody else noticed it? Is there an explanation? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Oh gwarn then... #9206 11/03/00 04:24 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England F FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike veteran F Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England I have my doubts about Tsuwm - whom I strongly suspect of being one of Alan Turing's Universal Machines, or perhaps one of Rossum's Universal Robots No no - Tsuwm is just Tsuwm. The Tsuwm that can be named is not the eternal Tsuwm. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Steadily veering off thread #9207 11/03/00 04:25 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 an explanation? Yeah - they's fick as two short plangs ooh, who says Pugin was an architect - he only decorated the cake! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Oh gwarn then... #9208 11/03/00 04:41 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >Tsuwm is just Tsuwm. shona, you have grasped the true polysemous battology of my being. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter what shall we do with it?? #9209 11/03/00 04:45 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England F FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike veteran F Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England Hey folks (definitely not 'guys' in this context) Just come down to Lewes and we can watch an anarchic and satirical tableau go up gloriously, and the best firework display you're likely to see in the UK (says he moderately)!!! Check out the Clinton tableau at the bottom of the Gallery under: http://www.cliffebonfire.co.uk Mind you, Site appears to be very popular at the mo, so be patient. P.S. Friends over the Pond - you may also find this amusing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Oh gwarn then... #9210 11/03/00 05:09 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England F FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike veteran F Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England polysemous battology Hmmm...more meanings than Kali has arms... but "battology" I suspect of being a category 4 Meaningless Word. (throws down gauntlet) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Oh gwarn then... #9211 11/03/00 05:29 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >but "battology" I suspect of being a category 4 Meaningless Word. au contraire, mon ami, it is a category 3 Worthless Word (YCLIU) http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/abc.htm#battology Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 5 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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