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Robert Poste's Child

Robert Poste's Child

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> Can I suggest 'crutching' RPC

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> Yeah, it sounds a bit rank I know

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> But this is the life we must bear


I fear that may cause more problems than it solves, Seabag. Perhaps we could just pronounce crochet 'crotchet'. That's just as bad, actually.

Robert Poste's Child

Robert Poste's Child

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civilservant Wrote:

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> > I just finished crocheting a bag. No English

> word

> > for crochet.

>

> actually there is - it's "hooking"...


Isn't that for making rugs? I have vague memories of my grandmother hooking a rug, anyway, but she was Welsh so in the mists of time it may have got muddled up with rugby (easily done, I think you'll agree).


Any synonyms that don't sound like a sexual aberration?

Robert Poste's Child

Robert Poste's Child

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Passiflora Wrote:

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> You have a crochet needle point ahead for that

> Robert.

>

> I'm trying to finish off a scarf.


Knitting or crochet? Scarves get boring after a while, don't they. I mainly do hats as they're nice and quick, and there's enough of a pattern to keep you interested.

rendelharris

rendelharris

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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> No more 'toilet' signs. It will be lavatory or

> loo, as indeed it should be.


Don't know about that, lavatory derives from Latin and loo from Waterloo - a European language and a European placename? Tut. Bog derives from Middle English from the Gaelic...

Robert Poste's Child

Robert Poste's Child

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rendelharris Wrote:

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> Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> > No more 'toilet' signs. It will be lavatory or

> > loo, as indeed it should be.

>

> Don't know about that, lavatory derives from Latin

> and loo from Waterloo - a European language and a

> European placename? Tut. Bog derives from Middle

> English from the Gaelic...


Are you blaming the EU on the Romans and Saxons then?

rendelharris

rendelharris

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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> rendelharris Wrote:

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> > Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> > -----

> > > No more 'toilet' signs. It will be lavatory

> or

> > > loo, as indeed it should be.

> >

> > Don't know about that, lavatory derives from

> Latin

> > and loo from Waterloo - a European language and

> a

> > European placename? Tut. Bog derives from

> Middle

> > English from the Gaelic...

>

> Are you blaming the EU on the Romans and Saxons

> then?


Absolutely, we should strip the language of words of Latin, Germanic and other nasty foreign origins then we can all go back to the good old ways of grunting at each other in caves whilst painting ourselves with woad, the real Great Britain before we let all the damned foreigners in!

Seabag

Seabag

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I like the gentility of having words (the foreign ones often) to mask the harshness of 'our' language (whatever that is ffs)


Where's the loo? Is way nice than 'Lavatory' or God forbid 'Crapper'


Quiche vs Flan? Well quiche is for me savoury, whereas flan is 'generally' sweet, other than Bacon & Egg in a rougher flan type pastry



I refuse to live in a cave, I'll reserve that right for the 17 million odd others

Robert Poste's Child

Robert Poste's Child

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rendelharris Wrote:

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> > > > No more 'toilet' signs. It will be lavatory

> > or

> > > > loo, as indeed it should be.

> > >

> > > Don't know about that, lavatory derives from

> > Latin

> > > and loo from Waterloo - a European language

> and

> > a

> > > European placename? Tut. Bog derives from

> > Middle

> > > English from the Gaelic...

> >

> > Are you blaming the EU on the Romans and Saxons

> > then?

>

> Absolutely, we should strip the language of words

> of Latin, Germanic and other nasty foreign origins

> then we can all go back to the good old ways of

> grunting at each other in caves whilst painting

> ourselves with woad, the real Great Britain before

> we let all the damned foreigners in!


Except if you're going back that far, nearly all of us are 'damned foreigners'. I know, let's give the UK back to anyone who can prove they're 100% Celtic (those with red hair are out, they have proto-EU genes) and the rest of us clear off back where we came from.

rendelharris

rendelharris

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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Except if you're going back that far, nearly all

> of us are 'damned foreigners'. I know, let's give

> the UK back to anyone who can prove they're 100%

> Celtic (those with red hair are out, they have

> proto-EU genes) and the rest of us clear off back

> where we came from.


Nah, the Celts originate from Austria. Tell you what, once things are carried to their logical conclusion there's going to be plenty of elbow room, isn't there. I think the Germans have a word for it...

rendelharris

rendelharris

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Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Austria, who told you that then? You're not

> getting confused with the Celts shipped out to

> Australia are you?


The Celtic culture originated somewhere around the upper Danube in the Iron and Bronze ages, but its people were gradually pushed west to the fringes of Europe (Brittany, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Ireland and Scotland) by the Roman Empire (this is from memory of some desultory linguistic studies about thirty years ago, so I'm quite willing to be corrected!).

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