British words and accents
Mar 7, 2016, 7:39 am
#301
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"Supper was only used by those with affectations to grandness, Bucket style"
No - it's more complicated than that - depends on the context in which "supper" was said.
When I were a lad (longer ago than I care to admit) growing up in the industrial part (rather than the pretty part) of Cumbria, there was tea at about 6pm then supper (usually just a slice of toast and rum butter) at about 9.30pm. The bread was toasted on an iron fork in front of an open fire. Supper in that context was definitely working class!
No - it's more complicated than that - depends on the context in which "supper" was said.
When I were a lad (longer ago than I care to admit) growing up in the industrial part (rather than the pretty part) of Cumbria, there was tea at about 6pm then supper (usually just a slice of toast and rum butter) at about 9.30pm. The bread was toasted on an iron fork in front of an open fire. Supper in that context was definitely working class!
Mar 7, 2016, 8:01 am
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You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
Mar 7, 2016, 8:35 am
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"Supper was only used by those with affectations to grandness, Bucket style"
No - it's more complicated than that - depends on the context in which "supper" was said.
When I were a lad (longer ago than I care to admit) growing up in the industrial part (rather than the pretty part) of Cumbria, there was tea at about 6pm then supper (usually just a slice of toast and rum butter) at about 9.30pm. The bread was toasted on an iron fork in front of an open fire. Supper in that context was definitely working class!
No - it's more complicated than that - depends on the context in which "supper" was said.
When I were a lad (longer ago than I care to admit) growing up in the industrial part (rather than the pretty part) of Cumbria, there was tea at about 6pm then supper (usually just a slice of toast and rum butter) at about 9.30pm. The bread was toasted on an iron fork in front of an open fire. Supper in that context was definitely working class!
Mar 7, 2016, 11:31 am
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"Supper was only used by those with affectations to grandness, Bucket style"
No - it's more complicated than that - depends on the context in which "supper" was said.
When I were a lad (longer ago than I care to admit) growing up in the industrial part (rather than the pretty part) of Cumbria, there was tea at about 6pm then supper (usually just a slice of toast and rum butter) at about 9.30pm. The bread was toasted on an iron fork in front of an open fire. Supper in that context was definitely working class!
No - it's more complicated than that - depends on the context in which "supper" was said.
When I were a lad (longer ago than I care to admit) growing up in the industrial part (rather than the pretty part) of Cumbria, there was tea at about 6pm then supper (usually just a slice of toast and rum butter) at about 9.30pm. The bread was toasted on an iron fork in front of an open fire. Supper in that context was definitely working class!
Mar 7, 2016, 11:39 am
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Mar 16, 2016, 12:18 pm
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Ran across this today and thought it was a concise survey of the evolution of our language:
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Not entirely surprising, since I had to read Chaucer when I was in high school, but the central question posed as to how far back you would need to go before English stopped sounding and looking like English is fascinating.
Not entirely surprising, since I had to read Chaucer when I was in high school, but the central question posed as to how far back you would need to go before English stopped sounding and looking like English is fascinating.
Mar 19, 2016, 6:26 am
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