Oh well, RB, people say I talk posh too. Does it really matter? So long as you can communicate with the people you care for.
But Weigelia instead of Weigela is a teeny bit irritating! The Spellcheck says both are incorrect, but I don't think the Spellcheck knows much about plants. It certainly hasn't heard of wellies, but it knows about male anatomy.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
when I was a kid " going to see a man about dog" covered everything from going to the loo, to secretly buying christmas pressies or whatever couldn't be discussed.
Pansy - I said English has few inflections, not none. We don't have umpteen cases of nouns like the Germans do (and the Romans did) and most verbs have very few forms compared with say, French. My OH, who speaks five (5!) languages, says English is the easiest because it has simple grammar and vocabulary.
Yes Brenda - that's why I like the language and dislike its misuse!
I've always just called it a roll, being a middle-class southerner, and a teacake has raisins or sultanas in it - or maybe they are currants - and you have them toasted with lots of butter for tea. Which, by the way, is taken around 4 p.m and consists of tea and biscuits/cake/buns.
It was Marie Lloyd who sang 'she sits among the cabbages and peas', and when the powers-that-were objected, she sang. 'she sits among the lettuces and leeks' instead. Or something.
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turn my bike round (Cambridgeshire)
check the ship for leaks (RN) (and having/taking/going for a leak, of course)
ease springs (RN)
siphon the python
shake hands with the wife's best friend
etc......
Oh well, RB, people say I talk posh too. Does it really matter? So long as you can communicate with the people you care for.
But Weigelia instead of Weigela is a teeny bit irritating!
The Spellcheck says both are incorrect, but I don't think the Spellcheck knows much about plants. It certainly hasn't heard of wellies, but it knows about male anatomy.
The only place I've found that meaning of jigger is here http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/10/regional-words-alleyway/ and it's not exactly an extensive discussion.
weigelia is , to my ears, slightly less annoying than gypsophila being pronounced gysophilia, which sounds like some deviant practice.
Steve309....watter me boits
Brenda might be able to explain
When I was a kid "going to see a man about a dog" meant going to the toilet!
when I was a kid " going to see a man about dog" covered everything from going to the loo, to secretly buying christmas pressies or whatever couldn't be discussed.
Pansy - I said English has few inflections, not none. We don't have umpteen cases of nouns like the Germans do (and the Romans did) and most verbs have very few forms compared with say, French. My OH, who speaks five (5!) languages, says English is the easiest because it has simple grammar and vocabulary.
Yes Brenda - that's why I like the language and dislike its misuse!
I've always just called it a roll, being a middle-class southerner, and a teacake has raisins or sultanas in it - or maybe they are currants - and you have them toasted with lots of butter for tea. Which, by the way, is taken around 4 p.m and consists of tea and biscuits/cake/buns.
It was Marie Lloyd who sang 'she sits among the cabbages and peas', and when the powers-that-were objected, she sang. 'she sits among the lettuces and leeks' instead. Or something.