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Eric Gibson said:
Try this Nico. :)

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Thank you Eric. I like the Vesporous though. And her Nutty Cayman (Tutankhamoun) , Megavissey, Arbroath (Amroth) Dalma. (Daimler). Chickerlings (Chitterlins). Gray pays an grawty puddin.
Arm gooin ta see Quebec an Vancouver.
I see it all now.....you love another! Guess that was a line from a play.
Boats. (big shoes)
'Oppity kick (quick)
Ooo la posh
 
Nico, I read that and thought "that was a lot of words, some of them English". So I read it again. Nope. Perhaps if I read it in the mirror, or upside down. Nope. :oops: Must be bed time. Cheers Andrew.
 
Nico said:
richer in wisdom I think

I look like the wreck of the Vesporous (I think that was the wrong name but that's what Nan said)
or something the cat's dragged in.
Pulled through an 'edge backuds
Or the wild 'ooman o' Borneo
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haha! It was you look like wreck of the Hesperus, I like your Nan's version best!
It was from a poem by Henry Longfellow about a ship in a storm a sea.
My Dad used to say all of those and "so and so looks like a bag of muck tied in the middle"
and "straight up and down like a yard of ditchwater" & "did you see the tidemark around that 'un's neck?"
Such a rich language we had that is sadly disappearing
 
Barbinoz said:
haha! It was you look like wreck of the Hesperus, I like your Nan's version best!
It was from a poem by Henry Longfellow about a ship in a storm a sea.
My Dad used to say all of those and "so and so looks like a bag of muck tied in the middle"
and "straight up and down like a yard of ditchwater" & "did you see the tidemark around that 'un's neck?"
Such a rich language we had that is sadly disappearing
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Well I have posted the following elsewhere, but....she said if she had a dress with an elasticated waist, aah look lark a bag o' sxxt tied up ugly. One of my great gran's said straight as a yard of pumpwater, Nan said the tidemark comment about women who wore 'muckup', an day wash their necks. As dull as ditchwater, .....If she passed a sailor, she would titter saying 'the fleet's in!'I t's nice to know I am not alone.
 
thank you all for your contributions to this long running thread which has now run it course so will be locked

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