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Post by zou on May 1, 2024 19:39:12 GMT
Royal Naval officer affected "wobbie wabbit wules" speech defect. ...... I had a sergeant many moons ago, who TBH was a knob. He couldn't pronounce his R's. One day for parade at the start of duty we made up an item for the parade clip for observations for a Red Reliant Robin with a registration mark of RRR 333R (obviously read out using the phonetic alphabet) with the occupant wanted for robbery. Oh, how we laughed, albeit it was a shitty thing to do. He was a knob though. Are you saying you all (the coppers in your team), were bastards?   |
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Post by dreampolice on May 1, 2024 19:41:24 GMT
I had a sergeant many moons ago, who TBH was a knob. He couldn't pronounce his R's. One day for parade at the start of duty we made up an item for the parade clip for observations for a Red Reliant Robin with a registration mark of RRR 333R (obviously read out using the phonetic alphabet) with the occupant wanted for robbery. Oh, how we laughed, albeit it was a shitty thing to do. He was a knob though. Are you saying you all (the coppers in your team), were bastards? Clearly. |
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 1, 2024 23:30:45 GMT
Used to work with a guy who pronouced the letter "P" as "B"
There was much amusement when he needed to call the Pollockshaw office
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 1, 2024 23:32:30 GMT
I think that it is scurryfunge.
Mick
You're right I stand corrected! I suppose I thought scurryfudge sounded right |
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Post by mick on May 2, 2024 9:41:58 GMT
Wagpastie - a rogue, rascal
Mick
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Post by John Farrell on May 2, 2024 9:45:03 GMT
Wankpanzer - a large 4 wheel drive vehicle driven by someone who never leaves the tarmac.
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Post by daves on May 2, 2024 9:51:40 GMT
Except to park on the pavement.
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Post by don on May 2, 2024 12:39:01 GMT
I’m not going anywhere near this thread I’m illiterate wiv a capital aitch
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Post by don on May 2, 2024 12:39:15 GMT
I’m not going anywhere near this thread I’m illiterate wiv a capital aitch
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Post by Kath on May 2, 2024 14:50:33 GMT
Today's word from the book (123) is chasten.
"VERB.
If you say you would castigate or chastise someone in order to chasten them, you demonstrate a good knowledge of the origin of chasten. All three verbs derive from the Latin verb castigare, meaning 'to punish' (Castigare combines Latin castus, which means 'pure' and is the source of the English word chaste, with the verb agere, meaning 'to lead' or 'to drive'.) Castigate, chastise and chasten share the sense of 'to subject to severe and often physical punishment.', but all three verbs are now as likely to refer to a verbal dressing-down as to a physical lesson. Chasten, (which arrived in English via the Anglo-French chastier) can also be used to mean 'to prune of excess, pretence or falsity'. This led to the more general sense of 'to make more subdued', although the humility can be imposed by a humiliating situations as easily as by a strict taskmaster.
So there you have it.
One of my favourite Scots words is drookit. It means drenched or soaked but in a way that only really seems to happen if you spend too much time outside in Scotland. Drenched to the bones, clothes sodden, boots waterlogged, hair plastered to the side of your head. We have noticed for instance that Scottish lambs in the West Coast at any rate, aren't seen to gambol as often as their English counterparts. We have surmised that this is because they're drookit and can't get out the mud.
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Post by Ivor E Tower on May 2, 2024 16:53:15 GMT
One of my favourite Scottish words is "wee"..... as a senior person in a Drawing Office in Dundee once explained to me, it can be any length of time you want it to be.
Example:
I'm leaving work now, will you come with me?
(1) I'll catch up with you, I'll just be a wee while
(2) Oh no, I can't join you, I'll be a wee while yet
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Post by Kath on May 2, 2024 16:57:35 GMT
One of my favourite Scottish words is "wee"..... as a senior person in a Drawing Office in Dundee once explained to me, it can be any length of time you want it to be. Example: I'm leaving work now, will you come with me? (1) I'll catch up with you, I'll just be a wee while (2) Oh no, I can't join you, I'll be a wee while yet This is very true. You can go for a wee drink and not know if you'll be fit to drive in the morning or next week! |
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Post by MJB on May 2, 2024 16:58:59 GMT
One of my favourites is 'ick', the West Country universal demonstrative pronoun/determiner.
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Post by dorsetmike on May 2, 2024 17:55:51 GMT
One of my favourite Scottish words is "wee"..... as a senior person in a Drawing Office in Dundee once explained to me, it can be any length of time you want it to be. Example: I'm leaving work now, will you come with me? (1) I'll catch up with you, I'll just be a wee while (2) Oh no, I can't join you, I'll be a wee while yet This is very true. You can go for a wee drink and not know if you'll be fit to drive in the morning or next week! And after the drink you'll need a wee wee |
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Post by JohnY on May 2, 2024 18:18:54 GMT
This is very true. You can go for a wee drink and not know if you'll be fit to drive in the morning or next week! And after the drink you'll need a wee wee As specially at my age. |
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