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« Reply #646 on: 14:12:10, 19-05-2008 » |
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... Indeed it is our view that all Bach's works in this style were written with a comic intention to-day regrettably seldom permitted to protude in performance...
protude v. To perform something not merely artlessly but also arselessly. |
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coudl Northern English variant of "cuddle" in the lcoal choral society, The little-known Lancashire Colliery Massed Choirs, an underground singing ensemble. in the catehdral's voluntary choir, As readers of Stephen Huneck will be aware, Dogs have their own chapel. Cats have a Catehdral (but the choir only performs voluntaries). |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #648 on: 18:07:03, 19-05-2008 » |
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But now it looks as though all those miserable wingeing people in the "life challenges" thread urgently want cheering up!
winge v. The act of behaving as though one does not know whether one is whining or dhining. |
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« Reply #649 on: 18:53:34, 19-05-2008 » |
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renton(v.) To assert something and immediately contradict it, with no explanation. As in: I'm not a fan of Listen to the Band. I am not to keen on the style its presented. Much that I admire Frank Renton and his presenting skills.
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« Reply #650 on: 22:28:01, 19-05-2008 » |
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But now it looks as though all those miserable wingeing people in the "life challenges" thread urgently want cheering up!
winge v. The act of behaving as though one does not know whether one is whining or dhining. Chambers allows it: " winge: non-Scottish variant of whinge." |
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« Reply #651 on: 08:30:19, 20-05-2008 » |
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But now it looks as though all those miserable wingeing people in the "life challenges" thread urgently want cheering up!
winge v. The act of behaving as though one does not know whether one is whining or dhining. Chambers allows it: " winge: non-Scottish variant of whinge." A word that (like its non-Scottish variant winge) does not even appear in the The Concise Oxford Dictionary. |
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« Reply #652 on: 08:55:53, 20-05-2008 » |
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So the Poms (at least the concise ones) don't even acknowledge the concept of the whingeing Pom?  |
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« Reply #653 on: 11:20:12, 20-05-2008 » |
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So the Poms (at least the concise ones) don't even acknowledge the concept of the whingeing Pom? When was I ever concise? |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #654 on: 11:28:13, 20-05-2008 » |
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pianos, pianists and piano buffs...
piano buffs n - soft pads of purest merino wool, sewn into pockets of chamois leather - used for polishing-up your Erard or Broadwood to a resplendent sheen. By extension, the user of such aforementioned pads... an elderly gentleman of former military bearing (Her Majesty's 14th Piano Buffs) at the Wigmore Hall, employed to bring the piano to a gleaming shine prior to recitals. ( cf Bufton, Bufton-Tufton) |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #655 on: 11:37:00, 20-05-2008 » |
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So the Poms (at least the concise ones) don't even acknowledge the concept of the whingeing Pom? When was I ever concise? So you're finally seeing the light in the matter of dear old Bruckner then? (I thought you were a Scot rather than a Pom though...) |
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So the Poms (at least the concise ones) don't even acknowledge the concept of the whingeing Pom? We New (Oxford) Poms whingeingly acknowledge them but only with the 'h' it seems. We also embrace whingers and, to my mild surprise, things that are whingy. It all comes from the Old English hwinsain (it sez 'ere) which is of Germanic origin apparently. My New Oxford urges me to compare it with the German winseln which I suppose I had better get on and do. |
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« Reply #657 on: 11:45:27, 20-05-2008 » |
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My New Oxford urges me to compare it with the German winseln which I suppose I had better get on and do.
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« Reply #658 on: 12:17:20, 20-05-2008 » |
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(I thought you were a Scot rather than a Pom though...)
I left this detail off my Boarder's Biog, but for the record I was born in London of mixed Scots/Slovakian-Jewish parentage. Still can't get on with dear ol'Bruckner though... too mushy for my liking, I'm afraid |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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For really serious problems, don't forget that we have the 'Totally Devasted' thread....
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