I have a tangle in my head over this (not surprisingly at this time of
night, and in the wake of my daughter's three-legged rabbit snuffing it at 1
am yesterday morning, which was more than mildly traumatic).
But when Josie raised the "Taffy" question, my first reaction was the
eighteenth century Edinburgh Resurrection Men:
Burke was a murderer,
Hare was a thief,
And Knox was the boy
That bought the beef.
... but that's not it.
It was "Taffy is a tinker, Taffy is a thief ..."
But it's late at night ...
dave, can you cover my ass on this? I could take one pace back, breathe
deeply, and possibly get it right.
But I'm tired, an I wanna go to bed.
Robbie the Universal Capek.
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: NZ
> >You beat me to it with Taffy, Robin. Why are the Irish
> called Paddy? And for that matter, why Taffy?<
>
> Josephine
>
> 'Paddy' is a diminutive of 'Patrick', as in Saint, while 'Taffy' is an
> Englished version of ' Taffyth', excuse the spelling, which is something
> like the Welsh pronunciation of 'David' (another patron saint). Get it?
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
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> David Bircumshaw
>
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