Patrick
Innit = 'ain't it' or' isn't it' my dear fellow.
and 'innit' is exactly how it sounds in a* Lestah* accent, which is very
whiny, and when repeated really does seem like frogs chorusing: *innit
innit
*
On 9 June 2010 10:10, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Was thrown here Dave Innuits frogs in arctic !!wow who is this Cheepstuff??
>
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> Subject: Chizzit snap (Korrected)
>
> (bugger knows how the 'n' of 'an' dropped out)
>
> (one of multiple versions of this re-write of Basho I've done - but
> decidedly a 'Snap')
>
> Chizzitku
>
> An old puddle, shallow;
> a frog flops off its spot. Yay.
> Splopt.
> Innit.
>
>
> Chizzit : an inhabitant of Leicester, as in 'how much izzit? A coinage
> reputedly of the shopkeepers
> and hoteliers of Skegness.
>
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(David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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