Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Colwyn on October 30, 2011, 13:26:57 PM
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In the novel I am currently reading I came across the phrase "Let's have the gen". I have known this word "gen", meaning information, since I was a lad but had never paused to think about how it came to mean that. I assumed it was a leftover from World War II "military speak" since it seemed that it was primarily used by men who had been through the war. Its appearance in the novel, especially since I was reading a translation from Swedish, made me look it up. Disappointingly, the only explanation I have found is that it is short for general information. But it seems I was right about WWII and it is chiefly of British usage.
Have you any neglected words to bring into the limelight?
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Please and Thank-you seem to have almost died-out along with excuse me and pardon.
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Gay meaning happy.
Military speak Snafu = situation normal all f***** up:D :o:D
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FUBARed = F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition.
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Typist... No longer used. Also Secretary has been replaced with P.A.
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I have mentioned this before, but I keep forgetting it, and then I have to look it up again:
petrichor
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That's an anagram of Richer Pot
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You don't hear haberdashery so much these days
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Guinea - as in monetary amount.
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PIG !! Only kidding, "H". Why is is that when, om American T.V. programmes, if someone helps another person , & that person says;"Thank You", the helper will always reply with; "Absolutely" [?][?]
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Absolutely !
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Here's a few of my hates, that I can explain through stupidity of people learning - usually from the telly - the USA or Aussie vernacular
TV - instead of television or even telly (and no not the trans gender sort of TV)[:(!]
Can I get? instead of Please may I have?[:(!]
Uni - instead of University (bl**dy Neighbours)[:(!]
Have a nice day ... mind yer own business what I do with my day:D
That's enough for now or I'll blow a blood vessel or two:D:D
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Originally posted by Scunner
You don't hear haberdashery so much these days
"Third Floor. Haberdashery and Millinery. Going up".
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I've sold the mill now.
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Rouge... It's now blusher.
Personnel Department... Now Human Resources.
One of my favourites which I wonder how many Forum members will know and remember... Dolly Blue
No Googling but what is it[?]
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Maybe you miss words that slowly vanish. One word that more or less disappeared during our 5 year absence - margarine!! I couldn't find any in the supermarket. I remember you used to get different brands of it - the Co-op even had different qualities - silver and gold as I recall. Now, spread is the word and often that doesn't even appear on labelling from people who would prefer you not to think it as a spread but something you can't believe isn't butter. Even Stork, the most famous of all has no reference to margarine anymore.
RIP margarine, I'll use Stork for my pastry in this modern age :D
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Originally posted by Scunner
Maybe you miss words that slowly vanish. One word that more or less disappeared during our 5 year absence - margarine!! I couldn't find any in the supermarket. I remember you used to get different brands of it - the Co-op even had different qualities - silver and gold as I recall. Now, spread is the word and often that doesn't even appear on labelling from people who would prefer you not to think it as a spread but something you can't believe isn't butter. Even Stork, the most famous of all has no reference to margarine anymore.
RIP margarine, I'll use Stork for my pastry in this modern age :D
It was a matter of (working class) pride with my old mum that we only used butter in our house, a frequent observation about one neighbour or another was that they only used marge (not even margarine!), even if it was Stork!! Which was a pity becasue I always liked the sandwiches I got round my mates homes which were invariably made with marge, but I wasn't about to tell mum that:D:D
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We were obviously not as posh as you. It was a matter of (working class) pride in our house that we only used the gold margarine. God help those who had to make do with the silver. I suppose you had real cream too, we slummed it with a can of TipTop.
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Tip Top, bl**dy luxury, I used to wake up t'mornin, walk fourteen mile t'pit and was only lucky enough to see Co-op's own evaporated milk to accompany a tin of pear halves:D
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Originally posted by Jacqui Harvey
Rouge... It's now blusher.
Personnel Department... Now Human Resources.
One of my favourites which I wonder how many Forum members will know and remember... Dolly Blue
No Googling but what is it[?]
Dolly Blue was the little pack that you added to your whites to make them whiter!
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Not the same thing as the little blue packet of salt in Smith's Crisps then? But perhaps so.
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O.K. Jules, Go to the top of the class and take a gold star. I note from the internet they are still on sale, but not in this area. My Mum and Nan used to soak their white washing in dolly blue and it always seem to make the whites glow. I am going on a mission to find it again and bring back happy memories.
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Originally posted by Scunner
we slummed it with a can of TipTop.
Isn't that the cat whose intellectual close friends get to call him TC?
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I can remember my Mum using Dolly Blue in her whites wash.
There are still a few shops around North Lancashire that sell an Indian version of it in powder form.
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Originally posted by KKOB
There are still a few shops around North Lancashire that sell an Indian version of it in powder form.
New Dolly?
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As advertized by Dollywood.
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KKOB ,where did your Mumbai it from ?
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Dippey
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Off an opera singer from The D'Oyly Carte.
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Just for Jacqui.
http://www.dockmuseum.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=dolly+blue&record=0
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And this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbarrow
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Just googled dolly tub, couldn't remember what the plunger was called , posser or dolly peg. Brings memories of my Gran 40 odd years ago. then she used a hand mangle.
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O.K. I now need a fix of Dolly Blue. I am getting quite nostalgic for my childhood
http://www.oldandinteresting.com/laundry-blue.aspx
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I remember Dolly Blue from my past, along with the Copper to put it in to wash the clothes and the Wringer to dry the clothes afterwards, two words you never hear now days.
8)
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Originally posted by mike A
I remember Dolly Blue from my past, along with the Copper to put it in to wash the clothes and the Wringer to dry the clothes afterwards, two words you never hear now days.
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it was called a copper Yes But also a copper boiler
But the wringer was a mangle
Always told to be carefull not to put your hands in the mangle!
Twin tubs will be the next topic, My mum thought she was the bees knees going from a Mangle to a Servis Twin Tub to an Automatic Hotpoint Machine
Back to Topic Does anyone still say the Bees Knees? And Mangle?
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Mmmmmmmm....... we went the other way, from a Copper and Wringer to beating our clothes with a stick in the river, happy days
;) ;) 8)
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I bought a Mangle (made in Fraserburgh 1890) from our local Auction about 15 years ago for £14.00 and talked a couple of guys with a van into delivering it for me. The Mangle cost £14.00 and I painted it and put it outside my shop. I cannot tell you how many people wanted to buy it to put in their gardens as an ornament. One woman offered me £60.00 for it...delivered.. I declined, after seeing how the two guys who delivered it had such a hard time lifting it I decided it was staying put. It did until I closed my shop when 4 guys moved it away.
Since then I have seen a Mangle at an Auction making £250.00.
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Yesterday I went to a knife sharpener. Not many of those about. I think the last one I saw was on a tricycle in Istanbul going round the restaurants and doing all the chefs' knives from the kitchen whilst parked up outside. My chap in Bristol took a bit of finding tucked away in a unit on a trading estate. He had an odd pricing system. He charged £2 per knife unless you had ten or more in which case it would be £1 per knife. So 9 knives would cost £18 but add another one and it would only be £10. Worth borrowing some from your neighbours to bring the price down.
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Ah yes but how many of you used these for the washing http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wooden-Laundry-Tongs-washing-machine/dp/B001UXVJEM taking the washing from the hot water in the washing machine (or even copper) to the mangle, or for those of you enjoying the luxury of a twin tub, from the washing machine into the spin dryer ...wow what technology, and even more amazing is that the washing tongs are still available today!!
My mum never had a twin tub, but the single upright washing machine she had was fitted with a luxurious powered mangle. I can still hear it clunk now as it was switched on ready to take the wet washing, and mum would let me catch the washing on the other side of the mangle and put it into the basket ready for hanging out. Washing was only done on a Monday, and i can still see in my minds eye the kitchen full of steam throughout Monday morning:D:D
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Oh and BTW! this topic has taken some right old twist and turns in its content, now what was the subject about originally.......
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I can remember going to the 'Wash House' with my mother it was filled with coppers, mangles and such. I can still smell the steaming hot soapy smells, with women in scarf turbans round their heads and dripping with sweat. There were gulleys cut into the concrete floor and various shades of soapy water gushed through them. Damned hard work. How lucky we are now.