Stormkhan
Disturbingly familiar
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Shiny?Went past Redcar Beacon today on the bus. I wonder what it is supposed to be.
Shiny?Went past Redcar Beacon today on the bus. I wonder what it is supposed to be.
The first time I saw a public Baths Druk was when I was 4, We would get there early while the water was still calm due to a lack of numbers and activity and just because...We used to call it Billingham forum?Used to go down there as a treat.
What a lovely word! Lustrum...it rolls off the tongue quite joyfully - two individual sounds that are quite an insight into an ancient Roman practice. I do love Words...Lustrum Beck sounds Roman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustrum
It was still a bit desperate in the fifties Myth, with pitched gangfights between the Tilery Road Mob and the Swainby Mob in the Rec. I remember being herded out of said recreation area by a young man who carried a length of dowel with a short length of chain attached to the dowel, telling me that it would be a good idea to go home. Now.Thanks to no jobs in Stockton, my Grandad moved to Newcastle, where he met my Grandma. Then the Great Depression hit, so they moved down to London. Down his street, he was the only one with a job (because he worked in the oil industry). Then WWII happened.
He didn't get called up because he was already in a dangerous reserved occupation.
Stockton today looks quite nice, probably because all the industry has vanished.
I only know haggard to mean rough/old looking, especially when you're not really that old in reality.I was recently reminded of an old word that I had taken entirely for granted until I tried to look it up.
I grew up down the road from a farming family with whom we were very close.
They had a very old farmyard in which was an area where newly harvested crops would be stored before processing or onward transport.
It was called the haggart.
From an etymological discussion on a local board:
"It comes from the Vikings/Norse and means a hay yard - where hay was stored.
Some do spell it haggard but haggart is the correct spelling.
The Norse word is heygarthr."
No, a different word.I only know haggard to mean rough/old looking, especially when you're not really that old in reality.
1560s, "wild, unruly" (originally in reference to hawks), from French haggard, probably from Old French faulcon hagard "wild falcon," literally "falcon of the woods," from hagard, hagart, from Middle High German hag "hedge, copse, wood," from Proto-Germanic *hagon, from PIE root *kagh- "to catch, seize;" also "wickerwork, fence" (see hedge (n.)). OED, however, finds this derivation "very doubtful." Sense perhaps reinforced by Low German hager "gaunt, haggard." Sense of "with a haunted and wild expression" first recorded 1690s; that of "careworn" first recorded 1853. Sense influenced by association with hag. Related: Haggardly; haggardness.
A diminutive of Florence.Dunno if I've mentioned this before. If so, here it is again.
Where I live, in a conversation where one needs to refer to a woman of whom both parties disapprove she will be referred to as Flossie.
I was reminded of this recently when a colleague was causing trouble at work. We'd ask each other if Flossie was in, what shift Flossie was on, if anyone'd heard the latest about Flossie and so on.
As a child, should I hear myself referred to as Flossie I'd know I was in trouble.
Where are you from Escargot?Dunno if I've mentioned this before. If so, here it is again.
Where I live, in a conversation where one needs to refer to a woman of whom both parties disapprove she will be referred to as Flossie.
I was reminded of this recently when a colleague was causing trouble at work. We'd ask each other if Flossie was in, what shift Flossie was on, if anyone'd heard the latest about Flossie and so on.
As a child, should I hear myself referred to as Flossie I'd know I was in trouble.
I was raised in Crewe, where all dialects land eventually.Where are you from Escargot?
My Sister was the last of five children - the others are all males. In consequence, Mitty had an attitude and at times would try it out on Mum...foolish child!
Mum's response would be sharp and to the point and was preceded by "I'll tell you something Floss, and it's for free", and would be followed by a right bollocking.
If Mum was in a benign mood, Mitty (Sisters family name) would be referred to as 'Flossy Fussbudget'.
Mum was solid NorthStaffs., had these odd names/words that applied to us all like Grundlefizz, and Thinknottle, and would often drop into dialect, just to confuse us, that was learnt at the knee of Her great Uncles and Grandparents.
Nah, more like 15 miles. We don't generally talk Jug.'Ow arta Duck?
That is close Esc, what, six mile as the crow flies..? That would explain it.
She's a chip-eater, not a clay-head.'Ow arta Duck?
That is close Esc, what, six mile as the crow flies..? That would explain it.
She didn't know P.G Wodehouse did she?Mum was solid NorthStaffs., had these odd names/words that applied to us all like Grundlefizz, and Thinknottle, and would often drop into dialect, just to confuse us, that was learnt at the knee of Her great Uncles and Grandparents.
She didn't know P.G Wodehouse did she?
What's Jug then?Nah, more like 15 miles. We don't generally talk Jug.
Oh Aye - do tell.She's a chip-eater, not a clay-head.
I thought at the time that It might have been Mr C Dickens, rather than the other. Mr Wodehouse was not read in our 'ouse.She didn't know P.G Wodehouse did she?
I'd assume it relates to the Potteries area.What's Jug then?
I've sent you summat relevant.Heh. My uni studies in English Language have just started on dialects and accents.
*surreptitiously starts taking notes.*
When I moved to Crewe I asked a guy from Stoke why they called Crewites chip eaters.Oh Aye - do tell.
There used to be loads of chip shops in Crewe. Them were t'days.When I moved to Crewe I asked a guy from Stoke why they called Crewites chip eaters.
He said ''because they like chips''.
I said ''I like chips too''.
He said, ''not as much as they do''.
I would say that Canadians are rhotic speakers. We say bird, her, far, car etc as they are spelled. We don't drop our r's.The "strong r" sound at the end of words may be disappearing across the North of England, a study has found.
Lancaster University (LU) researchers said rhotic speakers, who pronounce "r" sounds in words like car, her and bird, were "becoming a thing of the past" across the region, with one exception.
Dr Danielle Turton said east Lancashire had remained an "island of rhoticity".
However, the study lead said that even there, the "strong r" was in gradual decline among young speakers.
Rhoticity is the term for speaking in an accent where an r is pronounced not only before a vowel, but also before a consonant or at the end of words.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-67832377
I think I've asked this before: are you (however) on the slide into suppressing your 'RRr's? I do mean nationally, rather than personally. There's definitely been a reduction in rhoticity across Scotland in recent years (the arguable home of rolling RRrs within the Anglosphere), matched by similar softenings in much of the North of England.I would say that Canadians are rhotic speakers