DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

[Stanley]

I spotted it David... Up with this I will not put!
One of the biggest surprises of my life was coming close to the top in a university examination on grammar and linguistics. Totally down to the fact that because of my age I had been taught English Grammar. [It's still a bit of a mystery, I go with what sounds like normal speech. That was the advice John Pudney gave me....] Sticklers suck.....
Just heard a BBC announcer say that "the government can only act within the restraints of the law". Surely 'constraints'? Or am I just being picky....

[Cathy]

Conscious uncoupling is the term used by Gwynethe Paltrow to describe her split with husband Chris Martin... here we go... She says that conscious uncoupling urges the divorcing couple to look inward and find the source of unhappiness in themselves rather than in each other. So now you know

[Marilyn]

Are you thinking what I am thinking?
What a crock of &!?%....!
How can one find the source of unhappiness in themselves? It is all HIS fault.

[Stanley]

Those of us who have been through it know that divorce is horrible, whoever is 'to blame'. All I am sure of is that my first reaction was "What did I do wrong?". It took me a long time to realise what had actually happened and funnily enough, the realisation came when I was writing my memoirs for the children.

[Marilyn]

But Stanley dearest, if only you had asked at the time, I am sure she could have provided an extensive list of all of your shortcomings...

( my Febby still claims he has " no idea" why his first marriage ended...and it is none of my business anyway, but I do find it odd that he has never progressed beyond that sentiment. I think it is a "man thing" to wear blinkers.)

[Stanley]

Actually Maz, it turned out to be the other way round.....
'Galluses' were the twine knotted round the leg below the knee to gather in your trousers. Much used by Navvies. My dad called them 'bowyangs'.

[Cathy]

How many of us have E-quaintances... they are acquaintances whom you only communicate with through the internet.

[chinatyke]

I like that one Cathy. Yep, I'm guilty.

[Bodger]

Not sure if we had this before, my father going to work, "ad better goo an addle sum brass", addle = earn ?

[Stanley]

I have them Cathy but only because of distance, I have met them all face to face.
'Addle'. Common round here Bodge in the older folk. I always associated it with 'handle', i.e.. get your hands on some money.

[Wendyf]

Just testing....
....this topic seemed to be stuck in the "Active Topics" menu, linking back to the wrong topic, but it was ok in the board index.

[Tizer]

Wendy, yesterday evening, I think about 8.00pm, I couldn't access any OG posts. I could log in, reach Active Topics (or any other list of threads) but every time I clicked on a thread all I got was "SQL Error". Tried it again a bit later and still the same same. All seems well now.

[Wendyf]

Yep, Pluggy restored yesterday's back up to get us up and running, but this topic remained a bit stuck.

[Stanley]

Why do horse's hooves 'clop'?

[Cathy]

Don't know why horses hooves' clop Stanley but 'You are the apple of my eye', (no not you ) comes from the old English language when the pupil was called the apple.

[Stanley]

I never knew that Cathy! As for 'clop', I think it comes from the sound, think of hiss and bang.

[Tizer]

In a discussion about the Scottish voters and the fall out from the referendum, this morning I heard the word `swithering' used. Looked it up and found it means to hesitate, be perplexed (no origin known). I guess there'll be a heck of a lot of swithering going on in the coming months!

[Stanley]

I am in a permanent state of swither..... Baffled of Barnoldswick should be my tag line!

[Cathy]

Captcha (what the...) is that annoying series of hard-to-read letters and numbers you are required to enter on some websites to prove you are 'a human'. It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Human Apart.

[Stanley]

I didn't know that Cathy!

[Bodger]

Neb, as in cap neb, ie peak ?, he wore a nebbed cap

Nab, a high point, hill, escarpment

[Stanley]

Webster says that derivation is Scottish and originally the beak of a bird. Similar words and meaning in many of the old European languages. Not far to a pointed hill or the end of a pen.

[Tizer]

Every day on the news I hear people talking about the `international community' but they never define what they mean by the term. Which of the old-school Labour leaders was it who said on TV a couple of decades ago that there is no such thing as the `international community'?

[Stanley]

I was thronged yesterday. Is that a widespread usage or local?

[Cathy]

I've only heard of a throng of people, meaning a crowd of people, but haven't heard the word used for a long time.

So how were you thronged Stanley?

Where does 'kicked the bucket' come from, used to explain that someone has died?