Masses to do. Drop Hubby at work, go to Waitrose to change shift for next week due to hospital appointment. Have my first proper hypnosis session, clean the guest bathroom , do some titivating in garden...... The list goes on.
I should think Fairy is more than scunnered about her garden; " she's pure dead scunnered, ah swear it."
Shoogle also used to be used when TVs had inside aerials. " The picture's gone all wonky, give the aerial a shoogle"
Languages are funny. We had a friend in Corfu and we could not find a single word in Greek which had less syllables than the same word in English. In Greek port (no idea about spelling, but pronounced the same way as the French "porte") means door.
We had to learn Latin at school and as you say HF, pure scundered. It's a dead language blah blah. Now I know why we did it. I met an Austro-hungarian bloke on holiday who was studying languages and even if he didn't know the English word he could work it out. Amazing!
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It can also be used as embarrassed here as in mortified Bushman but it has it's roots in the Irish according to Collins.
Just thinking. . . . . probably women get more scunnered than men. . . . wonder why
Can't imagine Joyce
Morning all,
Not been here for a couple of days either. Not read back sorry. (Only this page)
Hello to Poppyred and Sunshine
Hope all poorly peeps are on the mend.
Happy hoillibobs Dove, are you there yet?
Has been persistantly raining for a few days now, the garden Iis very soggy
Had a lovely day with little poppet yesterday. I am completely wrapped around her fingers lol.
H*******k for me today.
Have a good day everyone.
Take care. TTFN x
I'm from rural East Anglia and my OH is of West Yorkshire mining stock. We nearly needed translators for the first year we were together.
He can occassionally still comes out with the odd phrase I haven't heard before - and that's after nearly 30 years.
Love the word scunnered too....
and coggly.....
Conversations will be interesting today
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Morning all.
I hope Dove and OH are safely well under way.
Masses to do. Drop Hubby at work, go to Waitrose to change shift for next week due to hospital appointment. Have my first proper hypnosis session, clean the guest bathroom , do some titivating in garden...... The list goes on.
I should think Fairy is more than scunnered about her garden; " she's pure dead scunnered, ah swear it."
Shoogle also used to be used when TVs had inside aerials. " The picture's gone all wonky, give the aerial a shoogle"
Languages are funny. We had a friend in Corfu and we could not find a single word in Greek which had less syllables than the same word in English. In Greek port (no idea about spelling, but pronounced the same way as the French "porte") means door.
Scottish kirk is close to the Dutch kerk.
We had to learn Latin at school and as you say HF, pure scundered. It's a dead language blah blah. Now I know why we did it. I met an Austro-hungarian bloke on holiday who was studying languages and even if he didn't know the English word he could work it out. Amazing!
Morning all. Woke up at 4 this morning
took ages to nod off again 
Glorious sunny morning now
, better get a shift on and wake up properly.
One of the things I do when not in the garden is transcribing 16C wills. A lot of the word varients have clear teutonic origins. For example:
sche = she
milch cow = milk cow
oder = other
dochter = daughter
moder = mother
fader = father
etc etc
Also some nice regional accent ones:
fower = four
fryern panne = frying pan
And nobody can spell the word 'cushion' - cusshine, quoshion, quychen are just some attempts
Love languages
Snap time now Muddle-Up - Ah'll sithee later
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