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In a message dated 19/07/96 07:20:52, Alan Hyslop writes: >Anyway, in the GP-UK traditions of weekend frivolity, what other regional >medico-patient vernacular can we share? I'll start with 'lowp' (first >bit pronounced like 'bow' of a ship). Means very painful, often of a >coming-in-waves character. Sometimes prefixed with 'right', as in right >lowpin On the same subject (OTSS??? is this a new net abreviation or have I dreamt it elsewhere) I have had patients in South Yorks/ N Derbyshire say "its his sparrow, doctor" referring to their sons genitalia! "There's nowt so queer as folk" (I thought I would get this in as a pre-emptive strike), as they say in my part of the globe. I worked with a registrar in Paeds in Huddersfield who had trained in Dundee, who told me of the expression, "peely-wally" (phonetically) meaning ill. I can't remember how ill this was, any translations from north of the border gratefully received. Trefor Roscoe Email; [log in to unmask] Beighton Health Centre Tel 0114 - 269 5061 Queens Road, Beighon Fax 0114 - 269 7186 Sheffield S19 6BJ p.s. Around here the childhood name for horses is popo or `gee-gee popo'. I gather that there is a Romany or Irish (???Gaelic) explanation for this, any ideas? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%