Comments on: Funny Bones, 1929

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:27:32 +0000

I found my heart oddly longing for something this, dare I say it, mature in the New Era…

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:39:10 +0000

It’s easy. “Scotched” came from the same place that “welshed” did.

From the English.

Rule, Britannia!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:33:30 +0000

heh, heh — I don’t know when the word came from, Bill, but I’d sure like to know the story behind your illustration!

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:31:59 +0000

Tatiana, wouldn’t, “Keepemcominin,” be more accurate?

By: Bill MacKinnon

Bill MacKinnon — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:17:04 +0000

Where does the term “scotched” — as in the English once again narrowly succeeeded in scotching a quiet attempt by a Glaswegean shipbuilder to purchase the second mortgage on Buckingham Palace — fit into all this parsing of my second language?

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:52:46 +0000

These are even better than before! Keepemcomin =)

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:19:43 +0000

Damn, Ardis. You beat me to it. I don’t give a fig leaf (or a sporran, for that matter) if all the Celts hang, together or separate.

Actually, I’m just kidding. With a wife who’s a Nish (MacNeish several generations ago), a grandmother who was a Maxwell, a grandfather who was a Hughes (can anyone say Carmarthenshire?–we are including the Welsh in that Celtic mob, aren’t we?) and a son-in-law who’s a Campbell, I’m up to my ears in Celtishness.

But, the good Butler family from Hertfordshire runs at the top of the pedigree chart.

By: Bill MacKinnon

Bill MacKinnon — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:59:32 +0000

Mark B. (#12), “hopscotch”! That’s catchy. Is it a girls game or a beverage of Celtic-Teutonic derivation that, like the American “boilermaker,” combines drams of beer and whiskey?
/s/ Kiltic

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:58:05 +0000

True, Researcher. True.

Ardis, my twisted brain said, “Many Brits thought so,” when I read your question. Shame on me as a Brit descendant?

By: Bill MacKinnon

Bill MacKinnon — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:56:11 +0000

Researcher (#11), re “bought” juries, are you a Scottish Barrister or that lower form of animal life, an English Solicitor?
/s/ Son of the Inner Hebrides