Dominic Fox wrote:
>
> Prof Stephen Gill, I believe a Birmingham man by extraction, used to
> read out sections of Wordsworth's Prelude eliding the verbiage between
> patches of local interest with "...chunter...chunter...chunter...".
> Wordsworth was quite a chunterer.
So 'chunter' is verbal vomit in the Uk.
And 'chunder' (as in 'chuck chunder') is the real thing down
under.
Interesting regional variation? Note my macquarie states
'chunder' is of uncertain origins.
Also note: aussies call 'rabbiting on' 'verbal diarrhoea', a
lower emphasis from down under?
thankyou everyone
josie
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