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« Reply #420 on: 18:37:36, 04-02-2008 » |
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Derrière (prop. n) A song frequently sung in London, usually by those of a forgetful disposition who - having forgotten that culina is the Latin for 'kitchen' - are too readily influenced by American 'English'.
If the first Latin sentence you'd ever learned was 'Scintilla cenam parat' you might not have that problem.  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #421 on: 19:43:45, 04-02-2008 » |
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Derrière (prop. n) A song frequently sung in London, usually by those of a forgetful disposition who - having forgotten that culina is the Latin for 'kitchen' - are too readily influenced by American 'English'.
If the first Latin sentence you'd ever learned was 'Scintilla cenam parat' you might not have that problem. Oh yes! I remember my first Latin anagram class, and recall the translation to have been "A Practical Mental Sin". |
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« Reply #422 on: 19:47:02, 04-02-2008 » |
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Top Burghers: well-fed, crusty denizens of the Radio 3 messageboards.
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« Reply #423 on: 22:27:09, 04-02-2008 » |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #424 on: 23:18:14, 04-02-2008 » |
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retrun Retrun (n) - A short-cut used by large numbers of drivers in the Sloane Square area. |
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« Reply #425 on: 00:36:58, 05-02-2008 » |
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retrun Retrun (n) - A short-cut used by large numbers of drivers in the Sloane Square area. Nace one George  |
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« Reply #426 on: 14:54:14, 05-02-2008 » |
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Found on today's shopping list, written in a 15-year-old's scribble: pancake ingredience
ingredience ( n) A stodgy mixture of ingredients including flour, eggs, milk, salt and butter. |
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #429 on: 16:10:30, 05-02-2008 » |
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television ariel engineer - maintenance operative on-call during Tempests
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #431 on: 17:12:10, 05-02-2008 » |
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Maybe you're just going through a bad spell, Mort (Or something of the type....) |
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« Reply #432 on: 21:30:38, 08-02-2008 » |
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Some years ago, I was doing a job that involved regular trips to Swansea - never seen a place like it for rain. Even the taxi drivers used to boast that it had the worst climate in Britain ....
Imagine how you would have ended up if you'd spet the first 18 years of your life living there...? (hence the diving suit) (-tt-). Discharge venomously from the mouth in a manner deliberately intended to imitate the inclement weather normally experienced in (e.g.) Manchester and Swansea. |
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« Reply #433 on: 22:22:25, 08-02-2008 » |
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spet[/b] v.t. (-tt-). Discharge venomously from the mouth in a manner deliberately intended to imitate the inclement weather normally experienced in (e.g.) Manchester and Swansea.
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« Reply #434 on: 08:22:01, 09-02-2008 » |
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He messes around with vowels and diphthongs now, tinners, though not all the time....and, to be fair, most singers do it to some extent. I once heard a whole choir sing Late the braht sayrapheem in bahning roo, a well-known piece by Handel  . I find it funny the way singers prononce some words. Do you have other examples? |
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