I never hear it used Max. In the East Midlands you get odd bits of
dialect surviving: like sneap and pootle, but there isn't much. Or
rather, there doesn't seem to be much, the women, especially, talk
among themselves in a rather different way from how they talk among
males, sometimes they let me overhear it!
I remember when young working in Stourbridge for a while, and there
where old guys there who still talked dialect, it was virtually
incomprehensible to me, although I loved the rhythms of their speech,
and I only came from about 13 miles away. Likewise in Stratford, there
were still people who talked like Walter Gabriel, I doubt if that's
the same now.
Best
Dave
2008/6/17 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>:
> (TV here last night ran a long interview with David Attenborough at 82,
> Leicester boy who began on his science in Leicester quarries.)
>
> Well, and is the coorieing word used in the south of the UK?
>
> On 17/6/08 7:22 AM, "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Its warmth, yes, Max, it's very human , I liked that, instinctively.
>>
>> Not quite on mummers but I've been trying to find out of late when the
>> Leicester Waits ended: I did meet someone a few weeks back who
>> remembered them still happening in a housing estate in the early 70s.
>> Going round, house to house, y'know.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> 2008/6/16 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> The recently recommended item on WSGraham
>>> I have enjoyed for its warmth. Also it
>>> provides an expression new to me:
>>>
>>> Graham, letšs not forget, was a Scottish poet. The Scottish literary
>>> establishment
>>> turned his back on him, although it now coories up to his memory.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Googling it I laboriously reach this:
>>>
>>> Association of British Scrabble Players - Words
>>> coorie+ courie+, to nestle: COORIES, COORIEING, COORIED; COURIES,
>>> ..... guising, a survival of mumming, where children dress up and go from
>>> house to house. ...
>>>
>>> www.absp.org.uk/words/scots.html
>>>
>>> Is that it?
>>>
>>> I see therešs also coorying down.
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
>
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