Lexie’s Comments (group member since May 19, 2014)

Lexie’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

Any band with a Latin name can't be all bad!

I don't sell a lot through them - taken my eye off the ball a bit - but the process is easy and the search engines certainly help people find you.

Groovy wrote: "Ori, here's a link to my blankets I plan to sell online. This is just a draft page, I'm still in the redesign stage. You, too, mrbooks, if you're interested in fluffy stuff:) You, too, Lexie!

I'm ..."

Wow, well done! Those are lovely, and lots of work! Are you going to use Etsy, too?

Good one! I like speaking Norwegian to Norwegians - it confuses them completely!

A teacher at my old school once proffered a dish of dubious looking potatoes in the lunch hall to a colleague, with the words, 'Don't let the pommes deter you!'

Someone I knew used to say, if she was wearing house-work clothes, that she was in her dishabells. It was a few years before I realised this was 'deshabille'. I like it when something leaps languages like that.

mrbooks wrote: "Groovy wrote: "Chicago?!!! I told you I get them mixed up--LOL! And the movie came out in 1979. It was pretty good. I'm sure the book was better.

The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band? I'm going to have to go..."

'The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band) was created by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s.[1] Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelic pop with surreal humour and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the public attention through a 1968 ITV comedy show, Do Not Adjust Your Set.' (Wikipedia). I'm not a great fan, I just love the name!

What about The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band?

Ah, well.

If we asked my mother, when we were children, what something was, she would tell us it was a thing for a gate. If we asked her where something was and she thought the answer was obvious, she would tell us it was in Nellie's room behind the wallpaper.

At 88 she seems to have grown out of this habit, for the most part.

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "Ne hass, Lexie, you notice I say "claims." He claims a lot of good things that aren't true, you know. But he IS a big ol' trump...in the Scottish sense of the word!"
Fake news, fake news, as the great man says ... Such a bully.

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "Groovy wrote: "Lexie has a phrase. I don't know if any of you have heard of it before. "Turn up trumps". It means to turn out well; to give a good result. That's a first for me:)"

That comes from ..."
Hey, don't blame us for him!! I think the Trump side is German, isn't it? :-)

No, an eisteddfod is a Welsh celebration of music and poetry, with highly coveted prizes for the winning bards. The two words are utterly unrelated, except that they're my favourites!

It's late in the evening (here in north east Scotland) and I just wanted to say that l like the words serendipity and eisteddfod. I know one is English and the other Welsh, but hey, Celtic fringes stick together.

There are some relatively recent ones (Poor Law times) in Britain - for example the surname Cambridge, if it can't be traced back to more than about 1850, means the child was 'found' at Cambridge Poor House. I don't know how widespread that practice was but I've certainly come across some. I don't think the St Johns are related to that (more likely Templar connexions) - my impression is that here, if the child was handed into a monastery, he or she became a religious - so surnames were no longer relevant.

As they say round here, every day's a school day!

I didn't think it was very Charlotte Bronte-ish to make up new words so I looked it up. Oxford English Dictionary has it first recorded in 1623, and also used by Walter Scott. Can't say it's the word on everyone's lips, though!