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L'Ayleur delayWonderful 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!
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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...)
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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.
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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?
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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.
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an explanation?Yeah - they's fick as two short plangs ooh, who says Pugin was an architect - he only decorated the cake!
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>Tsuwm is just Tsuwm.
shona, you have grasped the true polysemous battology of my being.
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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.ukMind 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.
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polysemous battologyHmmm...more meanings than Kali has arms... but "battology" I suspect of being a category 4 Meaningless Word. ( throws down gauntlet)
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>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
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