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Thread: THE EDWARDIANS - WHY NOT JOIN US AS THE QUEST CONTINUES - |
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Former Member
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Evening all
Another sunny day so a good walk to the supermarket and, yes, it is good to see all the local (Kent for me) fruit coming in with super strawberries and cherries. I'm not a cake eater so these are real treats. |
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Holy Cow! The language you use, you Edwardians
 - I would search for lessons in all the night school programs we receive now - but how can I do that when I don't even know what to search for? Edwardian? They have English, German, Spanish, French and Italian - I'll like to take'em all  But Edwardian?  They don't offer that ....  |
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Former Member
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But Edwardian? They don't offer that .... Can't believe your 'mincepies' Aye  Old Sage  |
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Former Member
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- and Tony what exactly is mincepies Aye????
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Former Member
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mince pies.....cockney rhyming slang......eyes!
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Scribe, you guys are perennial mysteries to me
- and I thought I knew English! Hah! Scribe, I need it cut out in cardboard, bent in neon, spelt out squarely: Aye = eye? Mince pie = a dish? In Rhode Island I once tried what they called mince meat - a lovely dessert that had nothing whatsoever to do with meat - and I could obtain no explanation for why they called it so ... So are we talking "mince pie (food)" and just for the fun of it making the "Aye" rhyme? And if so: Does it mean I'm a nitpicker? While we talk, Scribe: How are your cats? The kitties, I suppose are super, but the older generation??? And while I'm at it: Why don't you revive the "Vowel Game"? I think it was funny and a good challenge that could occupy your brain most of the day - and maybe rehabilitate it from mushyness - and I thought it was improving my English - I thought  |
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Look at that link, Scribe - and compare it to my post ^^^
- and what do you get? Male uncomplicatedness versus female verbosity maybe? Good Morning! Sunny, drifting good-humoured white clouds, a little cool - an autumn bite to it ... |
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Mince pies are eyes, this dictionary says.
So if I said mince pies as in "What a pretty colour your mince pies have!" that would be understood in Cockneyland? Would it be understood universally (in the UK; that is the Universe in this connection; exclude Denmark)? Or would I have to spell it out like: "What a pretty colour your mince pies ayas you have!" just for the rhyme of it? |
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densnaps
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Your Minces are a pretty colour
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