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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Sept 15, 2020 7:17:43 GMT
Tom tit
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Post by honeybear on Sept 15, 2020 7:22:52 GMT
Jack daw
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Post by clioseward on Sept 15, 2020 7:47:44 GMT
Polly parrot
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Post by goodlookingone on Sept 15, 2020 9:24:36 GMT
No other examples, but ........ I believe the name Robin, was actually a later name. In earlier text (e.g., Pepys Diaries) it was merely Redbreast. I also understand that the Yanks, at least until recently, Refer t0 their version of the bird (bigger than ours) as Redbreast. I've possibly said something stupid - America being such a big and only sparsly occupied by English Speakers, I doubt if the name would be pan american.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 15, 2020 11:27:20 GMT
Dicky bird It's interesting how words appertaining to sexes have bird euphemisms.
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Post by jonjel2 on Sept 15, 2020 13:37:15 GMT
Dicky bird It's interesting how words appertaining to sexes have bird euphemisms. Yep. Met a few old crows in my time....
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Post by aubrey on Sept 15, 2020 15:32:06 GMT
Dicky bird It's interesting how words appertaining to sexes have bird euphemisms. Yep. Met a few old crows in my time....
And a few cocks as well, I'll be bound.
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Post by althea on Sept 16, 2020 16:37:36 GMT
House Martin?
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Sept 18, 2020 7:36:27 GMT
Kittiwake Jack Snipe
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Post by jonjel2 on Oct 6, 2020 11:24:38 GMT
Wogs.
No, not quite what you thought. It originally meant Working on Government Service and was often embroidered on the uniforms or clothing worn by mainly Indian men recruited by the British to work in Egypt.
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Post by ARENA on Oct 6, 2020 12:04:25 GMT
Wogs.
No, not quite what you thought. It originally meant Working on Government Service and was often embroidered on the uniforms or clothing worn by mainly Indian men recruited by the British to work in Egypt. FAKE NEWS! wog c.1920, "a lower-class babu shipping clerk" [Partridge]; later World War II British armed forces slang for "native of India" (especially as a servant or labourer), possibly shortened from golliwog. Many acronym origins have been proposed, none found satisfactory.
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Post by jonjel2 on Oct 6, 2020 13:09:29 GMT
Wogs.
No, not quite what you thought. It originally meant Working on Government Service and was often embroidered on the uniforms or clothing worn by mainly Indian men recruited by the British to work in Egypt. FAKE NEWS! wog c.1920, "a lower-class babu shipping clerk" [Partridge]; later World War II British armed forces slang for "native of India" (especially as a servant or labourer), possibly shortened from golliwog. Many acronym origins have been proposed, none found satisfactory. That depends which source you believe
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Post by ARENA on Oct 6, 2020 14:51:49 GMT
FAKE NEWS! wog c.1920, "a lower-class babu shipping clerk" [Partridge]; later World War II British armed forces slang for "native of India" (especially as a servant or labourer), possibly shortened from golliwog. Many acronym origins have been proposed, none found satisfactory. That depends which source you believe In other words you picked one you liked.
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Post by jonjel2 on Oct 6, 2020 18:06:51 GMT
Pot and kettle methinks. So did you. I preferred mine which I think was the actual origin, then bastardised by people with racial tendencies.
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Post by ARENA on Oct 6, 2020 20:49:06 GMT
Pot and kettle methinks. So did you. I preferred mine which I think was the actual origin, then bastardised by people with racial tendencies. Thinking doesn't make things true , otherwise Johnson would be a viable politician.
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