DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

[Tizer]

I guess anime comes from animation, Cathy.

[plaques]

Here we go again.

It led to complaints afterwards by Ms Truss's supporters that the ex-chancellor was being too aggressive and was "mansplaining" - something fiercely denied by the Sunak camp.

Any offers?

[Stanley]

'Cosplay' .... a combination of costume and role-play?
Listening to You and Yours on R4 I have just heard the CEO of a large employment agency use the word 'presenteeism' to describe a job like working on a sales counter in a store where it is necessary to be at work to function. Therefore, no home working.....
Ken, as long as he doesn't do 'manspreading' at the same time......

[PanBiker]

Peter and Stanley are correct.

Costume and Play = Cosplay

Anime = Animation as in computer games and cartoons.

[MickBrett]

I remember when Graphic Novels were just plain old Comics...

[Stanley]

[Tizer]

I remember when Graphic Novels were just plain old Comics...

And I thought graphic novels were ones that contained excessive violence and/or pornography!

[Stanley]

Another new word..... 'Adultification' See THIS Guardian article for an explanation if you need it.....

[Tripps]

Watching the England - Germany match (of course) when I heard that one of the German ladies is called 'Rauch'. It occurred to me that it meant 'smoke'. A bit odd I thought - then remembered that 'Rokok' was the same word in Malay. As The Eye sometimes says - I wonder if they are in any way related? I bet they are. . . .

Now back to the match.

[Stanley]

That brought back echoes of the aircraft hangars at Gatow David. 'Rauchen streng verbiten!'

[Stanley]

Suburb...Middle English: from Old French suburbe or Latin suburbium, from sub- ‘near to’ + urbs, urb- ‘city’.
Originally the area of a town or city outside the city walls where you put the places you didn't want inside the walls. Like gallows, skin yards, slums etc.
For the archetypal novel about the suburbs see 'Diary of a Nobody' by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter.
All triggered by Ian Hislop's R4 series about the suburb.

[Tripps]

I thought sub meant under. A submarine goes under the sea not near it. but no matter.

The fact that President Trump had his house searched by the FBI brought back to me the HMRC slang expression "spin his drum" which was in common use in my unfortunate time there, and in fact I've actually done it.

[Cathy]

I heard a phrase today - ‘It was spating down with rain’. Haven’t heard the word spating before.
I learnt that spating means a sudden strong outburst, or flooding.
In this case it referred to the rain, but it can mean in anger as well.

[Tizer]

This is a fun 28 minutes about the Cornish dialect and slang... LINK
I was fascinated by the mention near the end of Sillina, the goddess of The Scilly Isles. That name is not far removed from Sabrina, the Roman/Welsh (?) goddess whose name was given to what we now know as the River Severn.

[Stanley]

"Spin his drum" That's new to me David!
Cathy, 'spate' is more commonly applied to increases in flows of water, like 'the river is in spate'. I've never heard it applied to rain before. I've looked it up and the origin is unknown.

[plaques]

Looking for an explanation from the Conservatives on the cost of living topic I realised they had no 'plan'. It then became exation. But being Conservative and putting the 'C' in I got 'exaction' which just about sums it up.

[Stanley]

Especially when enforced by law Ken. (Actually I doubt if most Tories understand what poverty is.) I heard someone yesterday on R4 saying they wanted to see a compulsory course of education for legislators in which they were forced to live in dire poverty.... What a splendid idea!

[Stanley]

One of my favourite words is 'dire' and this morning I was moved to look up the etymology.....
causing or attended by great fear, dreadful, awful," 1560s, from Latin dirus "fearful, awful, boding ill," a religious term, which is of unknown origin.

[Tizer]

There was a big fuss about the use of this word `storied' in The Times a few weeks ago. An example from one of today's BBC news reports...
`But this week storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced it was backing the firm, praising Mr Neumann as a "visionary leader"....

[Tripps]

big fuss about the use of this word `storied'

You raised the word back in January this year. Good that The Times has caught up with One Guy.

[Tizer]

Thanks for noting that - I haven't seen much of the word since then but it obviously ruffled feathers among Times readers so it must have crept in somewhere.
The latest Word of Mouth episode from Michael Rosen is on the word `like' and his guest did a good job of explaining all the different uses of the word and how we arrived at the present usage by youngsters. You won't be surprised to know that our ancestors in the Middle Ages were using it a thousand years ago in a similar way to today's youngsters!

[Stanley]

I wonder if they had their version of Oneguy then......

[Stanley]

" by Big Kev » Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:56 pm
Lovely, the smell of petrichor after two days of heat. It didn't last long though."

Remember this? The BBC has just caught up with Oneguy. They are talking about it on 'Today'.

[Wendyf]

Two different news readers pronouncing Sebastopol as Sebba-stoppol yesterday, is this the latest trend?

[Stanley]

I don't know Wendy but increased focus on the area is leading to the dropping of Anglicised pronunciations. Think Kiev and further afield, Bombay.