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[Paul]

The Priest's Tale is the sequel to and was released this week. S.J.A. Turney told me he did the needful to get it added.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "How annoying, it is just your book updates. ..."

I know! My verbosity makes me ME. My book updates are only a small part of the show. :D

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I'll add the book to GR, Paul. Give me a second.

[Paul]

Terri wrote: "I'll add the book to GR, Paul. Give me a second."
Cool...didn't mean to sound pushy or anything was just curious. I was privileged to read a draft copy and to review it before publication. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It is alright. You didn't sound pushy. :)
It is on GR now.

[Paul]

Terri wrote: "It is alright. You didn't sound pushy. :)
It is on GR now.
"

thanks now I can count it toward my Reading Challenge and post my review.. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

haha. Spoken like a true reading addict. You are definitely amoung your own kind here. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

My flippin' comments still aren't showing on my profile.
At least I got another reply from Gr saying they are working on a fix.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "My flippin' comments still aren't showing on my profile.
At least I got another reply from Gr saying they are working on a fix."

At least they are working on it.

[Geoffrey]

Terri wrote: "Since I live in a rural environment, and blackouts are common, we'd be lost without access to a good generator.
Our house is run by electric pressure pumps (since we are in the bush and not on town..."

Yes, without our well pump we have no water.

And no, no updates to my (very few) comments on my profile. Not very verbose.

G

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You fallen victim to the bug too, G.H. I did notice some US members posting about it in the Feedback group. This verified that it wasn't only a problem with members from some non US countries.

[Lia]

Loading Goodreads in my desktop was veeeery slow today... Curiously, the mobile app was not affected.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

All is quick for me on GR. But then maybe the slow period was when I wasn't online.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ah. You bloody beaut! Comments are posting to my profile. :)
I guess that was why GR was slow for you there Lia. they were fixing the comments issue.

[Lia]

Hopefully they will up to speed again then. (crossed fingers)...

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Comments! I have comments! *runs around in circles like an hysterical squirrel*

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It is a great feeling to have comments appearing on my profile again!

[Linda]

ASUS sent a virus notice to me which I promptly discarded (stupid, stupid, stupid). Since I use ASUS and Nook together, I may be contagious, if such a thing is possible. My husband will do a virus scan today, but take care of yourselves.
P.S.: Just checked my television and it is frozen. What is going on?

[Lisa]

I am blaming the current australian federal election for all viruses, contagions, world famines and blights on humanity!!!! Hahahaha that is my very random thought for midnight!

[Linda]

I blame it on the Syrian thing. Our televisions are jammed, retirement accounts losing value, price of gas has gone up, and other troubles to numerous to mention.

[Jane]

also the Egyptian stuff--don't forget that, Linda!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Lisa wrote: "I am blaming the current australian federal election for all viruses, contagions, world famines and blights on humanity!!!! Hahahaha that is my very random thought for midnight!"


hahaha!! Me too!!!

[Lisa]

Ooh the Syrian thing! I'm burying my head in the sand on that one, as nothing good can come from it. Why don't politicians read GR. We can solve a vast array of international problems just online for free, lol.

Finally a beautiful sunny day here in the Gippsland. Glorious day. So time for friends, BBQ, and a beer maybe. Hope you all have a lovely day.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hope you have a lovely day to Lisa. As soon as my hubby gets back from visiting neighbours we are going to go for a drive and get a counter meal somewhere.

[Jane]

Lisa wrote: "I am blaming the current australian federal election for all viruses, contagions, world famines and blights on humanity!!!! Hahahaha that is my very random thought for midnight!"

OK, I'll blame them too, for this dumb cold. At least, Terri, you taught me a new word "lurgy" [which I had to look up--Aussie slang?]
And I liked Derek's 'Flying Dutchman flu'! :)

[Bobby]

No GR for me ....too busy on the road but I'm keeping my eye on you all!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hi Jane,
The 'dreaded lurgy' is how we most often use it. From time to time, we use it without the 'dreaded' bit. I think it is British and Australian slang. :)
We say it here and I think it may be a rare sayings still in the UK..not sure.

[Jane]

I like that expression: pronounced lur-gee or lur-g[hard]ee?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

hard g. :) It is a nice word on the tongue. i have always liked it. It don't think it is old slang, but it feels archaic when spoken.

[Jane]

Thanks!! :)

[Carol]

Just finished Blood & Beauty: The Borgias. It was ok but in truth I am not that fascinated with the whole Borgia era. I don't think I will bother with the next few of these books. It was a slow read.

[Jane]

Terri wrote: "hard g. :) It is a nice word on the tongue. i have always liked it. It don't think it is old slang, but it feels archaic when spoken."

Found this link: more about the dreaded lurgi than you'd want to know...

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-d...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Cool! thanks for finding that. At least now i know how it came into fashion.


I always assumed it had mutated from allergy. Even though the g is soft in allergy, our cultures have a habit of purposefully mispronouncing words and if you make the g hard in allergy you have 'a lurgy'.

Take for example the Apple iPod. It is pronounced eye-pod, but a mutation is starting to creep into our Commonwealth slang where it is called ear-Pod. pronouncing the i as you would when saying 'it' instead of how you would when you say 'I'.
We know we are saying it wrong, but it is just something we do in the Uk, Australia and NZ. We play with words.

Another example. In Australia some of us don't say the brand Target as it is supposed to be said. We say it in a french sounding, fancy way, Tarjey. Make the g soft and don't say the 't'.

I still think that is where lurgy originated, through us all playing with the pronounciation of allergy, and the Goon Show have made the word fashionable by creating a wildly fantastical story around it. :D

[Linda]

Bobby, are you doing a little sidestep while 'keeping an eye on you all'?
Terri, what is a counter meal? McDonald's, diner or counter at Woolworths? Carol, have you readLucretia by David Krae? I reviewed it on Goodreads and maybe Amazon. When you are ready for more about the Borgia era, I recommend it.
Off to look up 'lurgi.'

Looked it up and feel quite sure I am suffering lurgi.

[Geoffrey]

Terri wrote: "Another example. In Australia some of us don't say the brand Target as it is supposed to be said. We say it in a french sounding, fancy way, Tarjey. Make the g soft and don't say the 't'."

We had lurgi when I was a kid back in the old country.
As far as Targé is concerned, I believe that one came from the US. Target was in the same league as Kmart and JC Penney, but in an effort to differentiate their image they upgraded their merchandise and advertising, having designers design their stuff etc.
As a term of sarcasm they became known amongst the Walmart crowd (no putdown intended) as Targé for their pretension.

G

PS. No comment updates yet.

[Geoffrey]

PPS Yes there are.

[Linda]

Wednesday was high falutin' shopping day for us. Breakfast at Perkins, then J.C.Penney for swimsuits on sale, Walmart just because it is there, and finally 'uptown' shopping at Target. About Walmart: the retired men used to sit around the courthouse lawn and whittle and play dominoes. They up and moved over to Walmart. I hear they added ogling the ladies to their regular activities. Since our obesity rate is highest in the USA, the gentlemen refer to the ladies as five hands wide or three hands, etc. They probably get paid by the government when they report their findings. Know what? Husband could join them and make a little extra money.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Linda wrote: "Bobby, are you doing a little sidestep while 'keeping an eye on you all'?
Terri, what is a counter meal? McDonald's, diner or counter at Woolworths? Carol, have you readLucretia by David Krae? I..."


A counter meal is what we call a meal you get at a pub/Hotel. Like a Steak Dinner. Once upon a time you sat at a pub and ordered and ate your meal at the counter with your beer, but now we use it as a general term.
You can be in a Pub's seated eating/restaurant area, and many still call it Counter Meal.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

G H wrote: "Terri wrote: "Another example. In Australia some of us don't say the brand Target as it is supposed to be said. We say it in a french sounding, fancy way, Tarjey. Make the g soft and don't say the ..."


Just to clarify, our Target is not the same as your Target.
I think perhaps we just came to it the same way you did as Americans. It evolved. Most likely seperately to your evolution. Since we have been calling it Tarjay in my state for a very long time too. Plus our Target is not your Target and I would be very surprised if an ad campaign from that long ago in the US for a store that we don't have would end up influencing our slang. :)
It is possible, but a long shot. We aren't heavily influenced by American slang or terminology. Not back then.
We are a bit more now when it comes to our younger generations who have been heavily influenced by American rap music.

[Dawn]

Carol wrote: "Just finished Blood & Beauty: The Borgias. It was ok but in truth I am not that fascinated with the whole Borgia era. I don't think I will bother with the next few of these books. It was a slow read."

Thanks for the update Carol, I was wondering what you would think of this one.

[Nick]

Lurgy in the North Eastern dialect means lazy. As a child though we used it interchangeably to mean 'having the lurgy' (a general illness - like Terri said).

We'd chase each other around the playground with games of tigg - the person who was 'it' was said to have the lurgy.

Whilst most of England had their tongue bastardised by the invading Normans, in the North East we have preserved many Old English words and expressions - a common example is "am gannin hyem" which means "I'm going home". I wonder if lurgy too has an Old English origin. Can't find any evidence on the net, but that's unsurprising.

[Troy]

The 'dreaded lurgy' is alive and well down in Sussex too. It's still a very commonly used term for any general, non serious illness from colds to tummy bugs and sometimes even rashes of unknown cause. Again, no idea where the term comes from though!

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "Hi Jane,
The 'dreaded lurgy' is how we most often use it. From time to time, we use it without the 'dreaded' bit. I think it is British and Australian slang. :)
We say it here and I think it may be..."

It got used a lot on The Goon Show.

[Bryn]

Oh, Seamus Heaney died. Sorry, obits again. Damn -- I wanted him to re-translate Beowulf. Liked his bog-people poems.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Do you have 'dog's disease' in the UK?
As well as 'the dreaded lurgy' we have 'a dog's disease'.
A really bad flu or cold in my State Queensland (don't know if it is National) is a dog's disease.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bryn wrote: "Oh, Seamus Heaney died. Sorry, obits again. Damn -- I wanted him to re-translate Beowulf. Liked his bog-people poems."

I am ignorant. never heard of him.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "Bryn wrote: "Oh, Seamus Heaney died. Sorry, obits again. Damn -- I wanted him to re-translate Beowulf. Liked his bog-people poems."

I am ignorant. never heard of him."

*whispers* Me either, Terri.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ah! I am not alone in my ignorance. :) Good-o.

[Jane]

Coincidence I guess -- another group on GR I'm in mentioned him the other day but I had never heard of him so I didn't pay attention. I'll have to check him out. "bog-people poems"-- that sounds interesting.
I could tell by the name 'Seamus' he was Irish, but that's it.

[Bryn]

Doesn't matter now!!!!!