Regional (?) interpretations of words

[Phyrebrat]

Erm, goss I have not been privvy to!

You know about Edem, although I'll email ya

pH

 

[Mouse]

I hesitate to think what kind of sewing bee would involve talk about crotches, but crutch is actually another word for crotch:

CRUTCH | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Pfft. PFFT.

You know about Edem, although I'll email ya

pH

I did wonder if you were talking about Edem!

 

[Abernovo]

If I said I’m scundered it would mean I’ve done something stupid and feel a bit wick - both mean embarrassed

Not the same thing then, after all. Scunnered is disgusted. Also heard it as a noun: 'such and such is a scunner'; that's slightly less common though, and I've usually heard it used that way with an expressive adjective before it.

Sorry to tangentially derail the thread. At least I'm not talking about crotches (about which Mouse is right, by the way (crutch seriously winds me up)).

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Not the same thing then, after all. Scunnered is disgusted. Also heard it as a noun: 'such and such is a scunner'; that's slightly less common though, and I've usually heard it used that way with an expressive adjective before it.

Sorry to tangentially derail the thread. At least I'm not talking about crotches (about which Mouse is right, by the way (crutch seriously winds me up)).

Apparently they use scunner in Donegal

 

[Biskit]

I hesitate to think what kind of sewing bee would involve talk about crotches, but crutch is actually another word for crotch:

CRUTCH | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Bringing dictionaries into this is a bit below the belt.

 

[Ursa major]

just vacu-formed tack

I'm with Parson on this: "tack" made me think of hardtack... something inadvertantly reinforced by the use of "vacu-formed", which caused an image of vacuum-packed** hardtack to pop into my head.


** - Perhaps the vacuum-packing helps avoid the need for chisels that Parson mentioned... leaving them sharp enough to produce the fluting on those columns you mentioned.....

 

[CTRandall]

My answer to all of this:

Count Arthur Strong

I thought he regularly misused language. Then I listened to it and discovered I was wrong. But I posted it anyway because I liked it. You'll never sit at Cliff Richard the same way again.