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Stanley
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Opening text too long so I've moved it to the first response.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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Stanley
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Posted - 05/10/2010 : 06:02
Belle, there's an old norse word 'skyt' = to shoot or propel a dart. Suggested by Webster as the root.
Cath, I agree with David on tundish and clemmed. Webster says 'mog' for calf dates from 19th century Cockney and is said to be a transference from Midlands dialect. I've never heard it before.
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belle
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Posted - 05/10/2010 : 09:32
That sounds right Stanley, thanks.
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Posted - 06/10/2010 : 06:14
'Skit' sounded Norse to me before I looked it up. I seem to think 'sk' is quite common in that language.
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wendyf
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Posted - 06/10/2010 : 08:19
I can hear the sound of skeet shooting every day from the gun club over the moor.
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catgate
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Posted - 06/10/2010 : 12:44
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wendyf wrote:
I can hear the sound of skeet shooting every day from the gun club over the moor.
I can hear the same thing from time to time in our part of the world.
The odd thing is that I have never actually seen any skeet in the wild around here. I am sure they do not nest in this area.
I have never tasted one nor ever seen one on a menu, I often wonder if I could purchase one after the shooters have had a good day and bagged a lot. But then I am not sure how to cook one.
Edited by - catgate on 06/10/2010 12:46:42 PM
Every silver lining has a cloud.
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belle
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Posted - 06/10/2010 : 14:56
skeet en croot...
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panbiker
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Posted - 06/10/2010 : 17:00
I think catty may be confusing the skeet with the haggis which we all know lives on the moors and has three legs (two longer than the other) for keeping lookout from the slopes.
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Posted - 06/10/2010 : 20:12
Skeet n'neeps.
Catty are you a native of Kelbrook?
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catgate
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Posted - 06/10/2010 : 22:13
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Skeet n'neeps.
Catty are you a native of Kelbrook?
No. Bradford born and bred, and now in the East Riding. I spent some time in the Settle area in years gone by and also in Silsden.
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Posted - 07/10/2010 : 07:22
Ah, just thought you may have links to the farm of the same name.
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Posted - 07/10/2010 : 09:56
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Ah, just thought you may have links to the farm of the same name.
Oddly enough that is where the name comes from.
I had a friend who used to live in Kelbrook He lived at Parry or Parrys Farm, up on the hillside at the back of the village. We were both interested in old motorcycles and I visited him a few times. He once mentioned the name Catgate and I fell about laughing. So when I was looking for a "stagename" I remembered that.
I haven't seen or heard of my friend for about twenty years or so. I think he and his family suddenly decided to go and live in Ireland and bought a place in Kilarney....well so said a mutual aquaintance.
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Posted - 07/10/2010 : 11:13
That would be Paris Farm, just up from Dotcliffe. I wonder where that name came from, seems a bit exotic for Kelbrook doesnt it? Perhaps it was Parry's originally, but it was Paris on the 1840's OS map.
I'm Bradford born & bred too, Dad from Dudley Hill, Mum's family Wyke for generations back.
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Posted - 07/10/2010 : 16:01
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That would be Paris Farm, just up from Dotcliffe. I wonder where that name came from,
I'm Bradford born & bred too, Dad from Dudley Hill, Mum's family Wyke for generations back.
Perhaps the farmer was always drunk, and was knownlocally as "Plastered" of Paris.
Horton Bank Top for the first 17 years and then Frizinghall in 1950 for a few more, then moved out of Bradford.
I still have a sister who stil lives there. You can't miss her. She is the one with the white face.
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/10/2010 : 07:54
Three words have grabbed me.
'In schtuck' for being in trouble. I was convinced that this was Yiddish but when I looked for it I couldn't find it. A puzzle.
'Kibosh' was another one I thought was Yiddish but all I can find is '19th century, obscure origin'.
Better luck with 'new-fangled'. Webster traces it back to Old English 'fangol' 'to take to something'. So we get the sense of attractive innovation.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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panbiker
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Posted - 26/10/2010 : 11:16
Here's one brought about by Stanley's nose bleed episode at the docs this morning. Why do we use the word clot to describe someone who is a bit shy of a shilling or dense? I can't seem to make the connection between coagulation and stupidity.
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Dialect and other regional matters.
