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Post by ARENA on Aug 30, 2020 6:50:32 GMT
ROZZERS is a long-standing slang term for the police, which derives from the late 1800s. The term is highly likely to have been coined in the time of Sir Robert Peel, who established the first police force in the area of Rossendale, Lancashire (hence ROZZERS).
If you'd like to know the origin of a word, here's the place...........
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Post by ARENA on Aug 30, 2020 9:29:23 GMT
UPPER CRUST....
In early days cheap bread was baked in the oven without containers, whereas the more expensive stuff was baked in tins. These formed an upper crust and were known as 'panned loaves'. In some parts of the UK 'pannedloaf' is still a word for posh.
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Post by clioseward on Aug 31, 2020 7:37:01 GMT
What about pie?
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Post by ARENA on Aug 31, 2020 9:27:57 GMT
Interesting one. Originally it referred to the contents. In French Pie ( pronounced ;pee)was the maqgpie. It was eaten by poor country folk wrapped in a flour and water crust , they had no metal pots, and baked on the open fire.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 4, 2020 8:06:10 GMT
SPINSTER:Unmarried women were supposed to occupy themselves with spinning, hence the word came to be "the legal designation in England of all unmarried women from a viscount's daughter downward" [Century Dictionary] in documents from 1600s to early 1900s, and by 1719 the word was being used generically for "woman still unmarried and beyond the usual age for it."
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Post by honeybear on Sept 4, 2020 8:34:10 GMT
Interesting .What about bachelor?
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Post by clioseward on Sept 4, 2020 8:57:02 GMT
I've been a spinster all my life and never knew the meaning.
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Post by althea on Sept 4, 2020 11:58:41 GMT
I always think spinster sounds like a dull word for an unmarried woman, while bachelor sounds full of fun.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 4, 2020 12:11:45 GMT
I always think spinster sounds like a dull word for an unmarried woman, while bachelor sounds full of fun. bachelor (n.) c. 1300, "young man;" also "youthful knight, novice in arms," from Old French bacheler, bachelor, bachelier (11c.) "knight bachelor," a young squire in training for knighthood
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Post by goodlookingone on Sept 5, 2020 11:19:28 GMT
But what about "Sent to Coventry" ,, (not me, bit I know a Lady from Coventry - I'm from Hackney).
Anything to do with Lady Godiva - The Lady who's Husband cut down on her clothing Finance.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 5, 2020 16:38:35 GMT
During the English Civil War, Royalist troops who were captured were sent to Coventry for their punishments
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Post by ARENA on Sept 8, 2020 8:16:01 GMT
GALAXY:
late 14c., from French galaxie or directly from Late Latin galaxias "the Milky Way" as a feature in the night sky (in classical Latin via lactea or circulus lacteus), from Greek galaxias (adj.), in galaxias kyklos, literally "milky circle," from gala (genitive galaktos) "milk" (from PIE root *g(a)lag- "milk").Hence 'lactation'
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Sept 14, 2020 8:08:09 GMT
What is the origin of the word haggis
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Post by ARENA on Sept 14, 2020 8:11:07 GMT
The first known written recipes for a dish of the name, made with offal and herbs, are as "hagese", in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, north west England, and, as "hagws of a schepe" from an English cookbook also of c. 1430.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 15, 2020 6:32:48 GMT
Interesting one. Originally it referred to the contents. In French Pie ( pronounced ;pee)was the maqgpie. It was eaten by poor country folk wrapped in a flour and water crust , they had no metal pots, and baked on the open fire. Interesting point: We Brits have a habit of giving birds human names ,as in pie gets the addition of Mag (short for Margaret) Other example Robin Redbreast. Can you think of others?
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