Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Haha me and my girl were discussing peaches and herb yesterday (because she has this cornbread and honey candle and I said it sounds like an rnb Duo) and we discovered there were 7 peaches

There's a French word now, 'scotcher', which means to stick to something, and has also somehow come to mean 'to stun' or 'surprise', so you hear it ironically, when somebody says something obvious: 'je suis scotché' - i.e. 'oh really? you're blowin my mind over here'

when I used to be a sparkie a "scotcher" was a private rewire or install or whatever that was usually cash in hand and done outside of work hours, at the weekend usually.

https://i.imgur.com/7FGvRZC.jpg

i'm sorry, but shouldn't this be:

BY
HERB FAME
of PEACHES & HERB fame

?

ok i love the nautical word guide. if you showed me the four things, i would instinctively call "pier" and "jetty" correctly, without "knowing" why. but "quay" and "wharf," i had nuthin.

that the original trade term for duct tape was "duck tape" really is so amaze to me. i love it.

I wasn't sure what the difference was between piles and fill, but I didn't want to post that out loud.

Very pleased to have brought the duct/duck thing back from the ilxor hall of fame. Will have to revive another thing/think coming soon.

I think this is where it started, 19 years ago:

Dialling your own number to locate your mobile phone: Classic oder Dud?

First Peaches, then duck tape. Mind blown twice over.

piles = vertical members driven down into the muck, historically wooden timbers and later concrete etc. your classic "dock" look.

fill = landfill. rocks, excavation, junk, maybe held together in a gabion-type construction (cages to hold rocks together), anyway creating artificial land - particularly common as a way of turning (precious, hard to replace) coastal wetlands into hardscape

BY
HERB FAME
of PEACHES & HERB fame

was going to say the same thing, infuriating

but also suggests the kind of humourless mind that might somehow alienate seven separate Peacheses over the decades

Herb Fame-ga, “Peaches No. 5”

I really love your peacheses

Wanna shake your trees

Herb even got him a white Peaches. Wonder if we can one day expect a Boy Peaches?

Phil Lynott was married to Leslie Crowther's daughter.

think one of my biggest pointless arguments in a relationship was whether it was duct tape/ Duck tape. probably over 20 years ago now. glad to see the controversy still rumbles on.

well listening to the words pronounced its difficult to hear where the t is located if its the end of one word which cognitively makes some sense even if the physical act is frowened upon by those who would use it, or the beginning of the next word or both. & why would it be duck if you weren't aware of why it would be. So trying to make sense of a phonetic experience you've encountered gives a mistaken impression

Scuse me while I kiss this guy etc etc

Nixon sent troops to Vietnam to distract from the duct/duck tape debate in the States

Manhattan had more people living in it in 1910 than today.

https://observer.com/2014/09/manhattan-is-apparently-less-dense-today-than-it-was-in-1910/

It is a Galia melon not a Gala melon. I learned this yesterday, in a shop.

That when people type "whomp whomp" they're referring to Sad Trombone.

Had that revelation in-thread a couple of years ago. It's not shocking though!

Eyeball Kicks, I only learned that when I worked in the produce section of a grocery store. Probably would still not know about the 'i' if I hadn't.

Manhattan had more people living in it in 1910 than today.

https://observer.com/2014/09/manhattan-is-apparently-less-dense-today-than-it-was-in-1910/

― nickn,

Also perhaps surprising to some, Brooklyn has had more people than Manhattan since the 1920s. Queens has had more people than Manhattan since the 1950s.

"Wichita Lineman" isn't about a football player.

Not a fresh one, but I was pretty old:

"Thou" is the familiar form of the second-person singular personal pronoun and "you" the formal one, so that a master would say "thou" to a servant and a servant "you" to a master, not vice versa. I guess I conflated "thou" being archaic with the distinction also being so, plus that in other languages I know, it is rather the familiar version that supplants the formal one.

I learned about a year ago that the "ye" in "ye olde ___ shoppe" was originally just a spelling of "the" and was pronounced the same way.

And the "y" had a dot over it, like a lower case "i" iirc.

And called "thorn."

I learned about a year ago that the "ye" in "ye olde ___ shoppe" was originally just a spelling of "the" and was pronounced the same way.

O RLY

(See below)

They still use it in Icelandic.

It's true that "ye" as in "ye olde shoppe" was and is an abbreviation for "the" and it was never pronounced "yee."

HOWEVER, the second-person pronoun "ye" as in "ye of little faith" is not an abbreviation for "the." It is correctly pronounced "yee."

was originally just a spelling of "the" and was pronounced the same way.

still is!

xp

By the way, slightly irritating to me that Bjork's surname and certain Icelandic footballers' names are spelled and pronounced wrongly - despite the fact that English is one of the few languages shares has the same th- sound(s) as Icelandic.

my boss (who’s Irish) says “ye” meaning “you” all the time. i hadn’t heard it until i started working with him.

really? i see ye instead of you, pretty common in scotland

say even

well I don't really anymore as I live in Canada but among Scottish folk certainly I do

I was going to say you've never had a Scottish boss then, Tracer.

rly! i have scottish friends (mainly glasgow) but never picked up on it from them despite being fascinated by everything else they’d say

well I don't really anymore as I live in Canada but among Scottish folk certainly I do

At least you can still say aboot.

lol

the Canadian about thing is a bit of a misnomer. it's nearer to "a boat". it also isn't really particularly present in western canadian accents, seems primarily an Ontario thing

actually scratch that, it is present in western Canadian accents just not Vancouver, and is present in Atlantic Canadian accents as well so. but definitely "aboat" not "aboot"

The Canadian one I'm obsessed with is 'sorry.'

I never knew about the “sore-ee” until I got to know a couple people who grew up (separately) in Victoria. One had a really pronounced “aboot” but the other two didn’t.

Beastcrawl is really Breastcrawl

https://i.imgur.com/qyqftuc.jpg

That this is a photo of Lauren Bacall and Vice President Truman, taken less than a month after FDR's fourth inauguration.

Man was only VP for only 83 days!

Even in not-great pictures, Bacall is a stunner.

It is interesting that people-who-can't-find-the-ð-and-the-þ-on-their-keyboard roundly spell it Gudmundsdottir instead of Guthmundsdottir

Even google wants to correct me