Arrr, thanks David.
I confess I had to google Walter Gabriel...
Learning this:
The Archers
Much of that first trial episode remains familiar including: "Well me old
pal, me old beauties", as chortled by Walter Gabriel. ...
www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/archers.htm
My radio listening never made room for him and them back then.
Incidentally, in NZ a fortnight ago, I caught up with a phrase that I'm told
has been round a while, but how widespread, I wonder?
'Crack a sad'(?)
'Pack a sad', yes...
thus:
Urban Dictionary: Pack a sad
Meaning 'To throw a tantrum'. Oi dont do that or she'll pack a sad. tantrum
sad angry hmph! throw by Kiwiboy Aug 21, 2006 email it comments ...
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pack+a+sad
On 17/6/08 6:04 PM, "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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