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Post by ARENA on May 28, 2019 8:28:30 GMT
AVAST comes from Dutch houd vast (hold fast) MAYDAY French m'aidez (help me) If you have any English word you want to know the origin of let me know
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Post by ARENA on May 29, 2019 7:07:32 GMT
Scouse: (lobskause) was brought to the city by sailors from Scandinavia. People outside of Liverpool when visiting sampled and enjoyed the dish that it was vary popular in and outside of Liverpool so much so that outsiders nicknamed the people of Liverpool scousers after the dish.
Originally it was a vegetable and fish dish eaten by Vikings.It became a stew of anything you had .
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Post by althea on Jun 2, 2019 15:30:49 GMT
I've just found out there is a word for mis-heard words and phrases - mondegreen. For example; Desmond Decker - cor,me ears are alight. (The Israelites.)
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Post by rondetto on Jun 2, 2019 15:39:58 GMT
AVAST comes from Dutch houd vast (hold fast) MAYDAY French m'aidez (help me) If you have any English word you want to know the origin of let me know Where does By gum come from?
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Post by aubrey on Jun 3, 2019 6:39:40 GMT
AVAST comes from Dutch houd vast (hold fast) MAYDAY French m'aidez (help me) If you have any English word you want to know the origin of let me know Where does By gum come from?
It sounds like a euphemism of By God.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 3, 2019 6:45:16 GMT
AVAST comes from Dutch houd vast (hold fast) MAYDAY French m'aidez (help me) If you have any English word you want to know the origin of let me know Where does By gum come from? Nice one Ron... this is known as a minced oath. Evoking the name of god was common in Medieval times , as in goodbye = god be with you, god's oath = god's teeth, god knows=god's nose. The Victorians frowned upon the direct 'blasphemy' hence the minced 'by g' expletives and by gosh there were many. Expletives then became bodily functions or parts....
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Post by anybody on Jun 3, 2019 7:25:58 GMT
Where does CHAP come from , in the meaning of a man.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 3, 2019 8:16:07 GMT
A street trader was a chapman , the same Old Norse origin as ;cheap ( to barter)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2019 8:34:49 GMT
Doesn't "by gum" come from Yorkshire or somewhere up North?
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Post by althea on Jun 4, 2019 15:41:43 GMT
Yes,Jimmy it does. The French use minced oaths too. For example,sacré bleu, instead of sacré Dieu. Another one is cochon bleu,instead of cochon Dieu (calling God a pig).
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Jun 7, 2019 6:49:27 GMT
FELLOW (fella) ‘a partner or colleague’ (literally ‘one who lays down money in a joint enterprise’), from Old Norse félagi, from fé ‘cattle, property, money’ + the Germanic base of lay.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 9:44:16 GMT
What is a "wee dock and doris", and where did it come from?
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Post by ARENA on Jun 17, 2019 11:50:18 GMT
Deoch-an-doris which literally translates as ‘Drink of the door’ is the Scots term for the practice of providing one last drink for their guest before they would leave for the long journey home.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 16:51:25 GMT
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