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Sandra wrote: "Christine wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Mizzling is another word I just love......"@ Elaine: What does mizzling mean?
@David, are you in the center somewhere?
@Sharon--that is funny stuff!! So is Sc..."
Oh, I like that, Elaine.
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Christine wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Mizzling is another word I just love......"@ Elaine: What does mizzling mean?
@David, are you in the center somewhere?
@Sharon--that is funny stuff!! So is Scottish slang diffe..."
Scottish slang is different from English slang and a lot of the slang is peculiar to a specific area. for instance there is cockney slang which is your apples and pears for stairs. to be cockney you have to come from a specific area of London but the slang is recognised across the country
for drizzle we could call that small rain or say its smirring instead of drizzling
if you like poetry one of the best examples of Scottish dialect would be Robert burns - with poems like to a louse and tam o'shanter
when chapman billys leave the street
and drouthy neibors, neibors meet
as market days are wearing late
and folk begin to tak the gate
while we sit boozing at the nappy
gettin' fu and unka happy
We think na on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Where sits our sulky sullen dame.
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter,
As he frae Ayr ae night did canter,
(Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses
For honest men and bonie lasses.)
Urban dictionary, Janet??I must say I am too lazy to Google when I am on the iPad Kindle, and as David says, you can usually infer the meaning. I have to say though that that website from Heather is simply outstanding.
I dont know the word mizzling, but guess it means the same as drizzling with rain. We are very nearly slap bang in the middle of England so we probably do get a mixture of all the sayings round here.
Sharon wrote: "Christine wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Mizzling is another word I just love......"@ Elaine: What does mizzling mean?
@David, are you in the center somewhere?
@Sharon--that is funny stuff!! So is Sc..."
Sharon, I LOVE that! Thank you. Might just have to put Scotland on the bucket list as well.
Elaine wrote: "I dont know the word mizzling, but guess it means the same as drizzling with rain. We are very nearly slap bang in the middle of England so we probably do get a mixture of all the sayings round here."Sorry, Elaine, that was supposed to go to Sandy.
Christine wrote: "Elaine wrote: "I dont know the word mizzling, but guess it means the same as drizzling with rain. We are very nearly slap bang in the middle of England so we probably do get a mixture of all the sa..."Got it thanks Chris.....8:D
tam o'shanter is one of my favourite poems so I love sharing it. used to be able to recite it all too but probably couldn't remember it all nowGlaswegians are referred to as weegies the English as sassenachs in Aberdeen fit like is used to ask how you are and in the west ken means know. gettit roon ye is a term used when someone is right when others say they are wrong or when the underdog comes out on top.
Oh, 24 posts while I've been away reading!Dialect is wonderful. It's being lost, sadly, as people only use words they know others will understand. When we chat with friends from around the world we tend to use standard English to include everyone.
My dad used to talk of a shive of bread - a slice. It's a term I keep in circulation.
I had to drop a lot of dialect and accent when I joined the navy and also slow down cos I spoke too fast and no one could understand me lol
Sharon wrote: "I had to drop a lot of dialect and accent when I joined the navy and also slow down cos I spoke too fast and no one could understand me lol"Sharon, I went to some Scottish movie years ago and was lost!! I was wishing for subtitles!! So sassenachs might have trouble understanding weegies? I know people here in Minnesota cannot understand people from the deep south like Alabama. Having grown up in Tennessee, just north of Alabama, I don't have that problem, luckily, as I have had patients from down there. My clinic employs lots of interpreters, but no southern US interpreters, lol!
Was it toigh for you to lose the accent? Do you have it back now?
One of my brothers lived in Scotland for 2 years - don't ask me where because I don't remember. he does a lot of community theater - I guess you Scots and Brits would spell it 'theatre" - so he has a pretty good ear for accents. I'll bet he could just rattle off some Robert Burns' poetry without even having to think about it, although it's been years, so I doubt he could keep up with you, Sharon.
Kath wrote: "Oh, 24 posts while I've been away reading!Dialect is wonderful. It's being lost, sadly, as people only use words they know others will understand. When we chat with friends from around the world w..."
@Kath, so you guys are very aware of what is local and what is standard English?
Christine wrote: "Sharon wrote: "I had to drop a lot of dialect and accent when I joined the navy and also slow down cos I spoke too fast and no one could understand me lol"Sharon, I went to some Scottish movie ye..."
we have Scottish and Welsh (an occasionally Irish) sheepshearers come and stay with us each shearing season. It usually takes me a few days to get my ear back in, but oh how I love listening to them all talk!
I took a job in Nottingham only twenty miles away from where I live in Yorkshire, and had to adjust my word choices so that I could be fully understood.
Christine it wasn't tough to lose it cos I tend to mimic the people around me it's not intentional and never meant as an insult but when I visit my sister in Canada she goes back to having a Scottish accent and I have a Canadian one
Just like picking up Southern, right, Chris?
I think we all tend to that to some degree....I find my self using the shearers expressions (well the cleaner ones anyway!), and we recently had a guy from the bottom of the South Island stay for 6 weeks. He really rolled his rrrs and I found myself doing it. People in NZ ask if I'm Australian, because I picked up a bit of an accent when I lived there, but Australians always pick me as a Kiwi. 8:D
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Where in Nottingham, David?
Jean wrote: "Just like picking up Southern, right, Chris?"Yes, easy to fall right into it.
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Try reading lips! :D For the life of me I can't read lips if someone has an accent (which I can see but not hear) and when they speak a dialect I'm not familiar with. I'm pretty good at reading slang though! lolIt so disappointing for me because my children love Australian and other UK dialects. They are also learning to speak Spanish and I can't help them practice. It can get funny between us because they try to describe how to place my tongue when trying to learn and I really mess it up. I suppose deafness has it's disadvantages but I'd rather be deaf than blind. :)
Janet wrote: "I've returned Dqrk Places back to Amazon. At 20% in I'd had enough. Might try again at a later date."Janet, what do you mean you returned it to Amazon? Was this a print copy? Do you get money back?
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Janet wrote: "No, ebook, via my desktop. But print books can be returned too."I didn't know you could return ebooks. Do you get any sort of a refund?
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Janet wrote: "Yes, a full refund!! Do you use Amazon to download/purchase books?"Yes, a lot, Janet.
Janet wrote: "But only are you able to within the first 3 or 4 days of the download, I've noticed."I think that's fair. Thanks for bringing that to our attention, Janet.
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Janet wrote: "Ok. If you change your mind within the first 3-4 of purchase you can still get a refund. Go into Your Account on Amazon and then scroll down to manage devices. From there you should see your ebook..."Thanks Janet, I've made a couple accidental purchases. My finger twitched and hit the purchase button while I was holding my Kindle. (I get muscle spasms) This will save me a call if it happens again, customer service has been nice and removed the purchase.
Really good to know, Janet. I apparently hit a wrong button just 2 days ago when an unordered book landed in my iPad kindle and I was charged. It worked out as it was a Stacy Green book that I planned on getting "someday". But it's good to have an option in case I hit some dystopian tome by accident.
Janet wrote: "Just like you have different accents, dialects within the States, the same applies here. When I first tried to watch The Wire, it was hard because it was like they were speaking a different langua..."Where in Nottingham, David?
Not Nottingham, exactly, but Nottinghamshire (Pinxton).
Sandra wrote: "I think we all tend to that to some degree....I find my self using the shearers expressions (well the cleaner ones anyway!), and we recently had a guy from the bottom of the South Island stay for 6..."I am a midlander through and through, born and bred, but I find any "colloquialisms" I use tend to be those that my mother uses, who is a Lancashire lass.
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If you have questions about Netgalley, just ask. Christine is great at step by step instructions!! ;-)
I've accidentally clicked on purchases before, it happens. :-)
Christine wrote:@Kath, so you guys are very aware of what is local and what is standard English? .."Yes, or at least, you hope it's so. Part of the National Curriculum in English is learning when to speak or write appropriately, and that the things you say in the playground aren't what you would be expected to write in an essay.
That's the theory! ;)
Lynn wrote: "Heather wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Question: When contacted by an author requesting you do an honest review of their book, what would be a respectful time frame to finished?"I second what Ty says and ..."
Lynn, you are under no obligation to drop everything and read and review an author's book. Apologies of that came across in my previous book.
I think you should read the book when you can and it's two weeks, then it's two weeks.
The author has to live with that.
Worlds don't revolve around authors :)
Janet wrote: "But only are you able to within the first 3 or 4 days of the download, I've noticed."Within a week I think.
Lynn wrote: "Janet wrote: "Ok. If you change your mind within the first 3-4 of purchase you can still get a refund. Go into Your Account on Amazon and then scroll down to manage devices. From there you should..."Lynn!! I'm glad Janet noticed the change in your picture. You and Otto look fantastic!!
Prevent a Litter... Fix Your Critter!Happy World Spay Day!
Check!!!!Blu and Charley are fixed!!!
Our 2 male Labs are not fixed, and looking for a girlfriend!
Sue wrote: "Our 2 male Labs are not fixed, and looking for a girlfriend!"UH-OH SUE!
la-la-la-la......I am not listening.
I am a sucker for a puppy.
Sue wrote: "Our 2 male Labs are not fixed, and looking for a girlfriend!"Mazie is fixed. Sorry. lol
Brenda wrote: "Lynn!! I'm glad Janet noticed the change in your picture. You and Otto look fantastic!!"Thank you Janet and Brenda, it is an older picture, Otto was around two years old when it was taken and is now eight.
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@ Elaine: What does mizzling mean?
@David, are you in the center somewhere?
@Sharon--that is funny stuff!! So is Scottish slang diffe..."
Mizzling is when there is misty drizzle Christine...8:D