Quote from: Pingu on 03 November, 2020, 09:39:23 pmQuote from: hbunnet on 30 October, 2020, 03:59:33 pmMy MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6 in Scotland. Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak. I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.I could've told you that I wonder if he remembers the ghastly school song I had heard the local name I just hadn't connected the two alternative pronunciations with the same person. I've been chuckling about my mistake all weekend. I dread to think of which school but probably not Phd Academy
Quote from: hbunnet on 30 October, 2020, 03:59:33 pmMy MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6 in Scotland. Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak. I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.I could've told you that I wonder if he remembers the ghastly school song
My MP's name is David Duguid, one of the 6 in Scotland. Speaking to a farmer today I learned his surname is pronounced "jewkit" which fits well into local speak. I've lived here for > 40 years and would claim to understand the local tongue fairly well.
Outwith is a perfectly cromulent word.
...I could have sworn "It's a perfectly cromulent word" was from the dictionary episode in Blackadder the Third,...
From another thread:Quote from: Tim Hall on 04 November, 2020, 12:43:32 pmOutwith is a perfectly cromulent word.My memory is playing tricks on me. I could have sworn "It's a perfectly cromulent word" was from the dictionary episode in Blackadder the Third, but I looked it up to check and it turns out the line was first used in an episode of The Simpsons in 1996, and was coined for an in-joke among the show runners, along with "embiggen".https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-meanNever really been into the Simpsons so that's not an episode I've knowingly seen.
That Drax is in North Yorkshire.Always (lazily it turns out) assumed it was borderline East/West
Kim, you are very bad!
As anyone who's ever cycled the seemingly endless road up from Thorne into a wet againsterly knows, Drax isn't so much a place as a state of mind.
Canson 70 g/m² tracing paper works in a laser printer. Ouf. I was half expecting the good old crackle'n'crumple, followed by a hot niff and maybe a wisp of smoke.The toner stays on the paper, too.
Quote from: T42 on 12 November, 2020, 11:01:11 amCanson 70 g/m² tracing paper works in a laser printer. Ouf. I was half expecting the good old crackle'n'crumple, followed by a hot niff and maybe a wisp of smoke.The toner stays on the paper, too.*files this factoid away at back of brain for the day it becomes useful*
Dreich - Wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these. Scottish weather at its most miserable. The “ch” is pronounced as in Scots loch or German ac
Drax is the Anglicised form of dreich. Dreich - Wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these. Scottish weather at its most miserable. The “ch” is pronounced as in Scots loch or German ac
"Dog and pony show" is a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends.
'Thought leader' is not the kind of role I would like to hold,