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Posted -  14/11/2010  :  06:41
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Stanley Challenger Graham




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Tizer
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Posted - 23/10/2011 : 11:40
When my South African mum came to Britain in the 1940s and stayed with my dad's mother she was shocked when Grandma said "Am goin' campin' wi' Mrs Duckworth this afternoon".


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marilyn
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Posted - 24/10/2011 : 04:58
Tizer, forgive me, but I cannot work that one out.
You will have to explain it.

Julie...nearly wet myself over the "one eye on the pot and the other up the chimney". So funny...


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Stanley
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Posted - 24/10/2011 : 05:00
Camping = having a conversation Maz. I'm sure you've heard it at some time.


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marilyn
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Posted - 24/10/2011 : 05:04
No...don't think so, Stanley.


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belle
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Posted - 24/10/2011 : 08:35
Nor me, just as stumped as you were Maz!


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Tizer
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Posted - 24/10/2011 : 12:54
Thanks for explaining Stanley. I think we might have mentioned `camping' in this context once before on here and wondered whether it might have come from `chatting over a Camp coffee'.  (LINK)


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Bodger
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Posted - 24/10/2011 : 13:36
ok then where does "camp" effeminate" tie in ?


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Differently named
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Posted - 25/10/2011 : 05:10
Must be the bell ringing ( oh I am so sorry about that remark) as with Campanology. Just checked the etymology of campanology and I may be closer than I imagined.


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Differently named
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Posted - 25/10/2011 : 05:10
Oooh, I shouldn't have got up this morning.


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Stanley
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Posted - 25/10/2011 : 06:14
'Camp'. I had a furtle....  Wiki says: "Camp derives from the French slang term se camper, meaning "to pose in an exaggerated fashion". The OED gives 1909 as the first print citation of camp as
ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to, characteristic of, homosexuals. So as a noun, ‘camp’ behaviour, mannerisms, et cetera. (cf. quot. 1909); a man exhibiting such behaviour.
Per the Oxford English Dictionary, this sense is "etymologically obscure"."

Webster and Collins agree on the definition but are cagey about the origin beyond it being 20th century.


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Bodger
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Posted - 25/10/2011 : 09:19
From back to front (sorry) in my youth you picked a "bogey" from the nostril, does this have a golfing connection, or as lads we made bogies from old prams etc.?


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Posted - 25/10/2011 : 16:28
Oh thank you Stanley, I got into a right muddle this morning on the camp thing.


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Stanley
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Posted - 26/10/2011 : 05:53
Webster is curiously reticent on the snot bogey! Collins mentions it as dried nucus and relates it to bogey in the sense of spirit or 'something that annoys'. The origin of 'bogey' as a spirit (as in bogyman) is thought to derive from Bug. This squares with the modern usage of something 'bugging' or annoying you. See 'bogle' and 'boggart'. all seem to be from the same root.


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Bodger
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Posted - 26/10/2011 : 09:00
on the Rochdale / Ashton u Lyne side of Manchester there is / was an area called Boggart Clough


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Callunna
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Posted - 26/10/2011 : 13:40
Wouldn't that be Boggart Hole Clough, near Blackley?

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