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raindancer · 7837. Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:09 pm

What C is linked to a happy time, a newspaper seller and a round table?

hardie · 7863. Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:08 pm

2 C words I'm fond of , claggy and clarty: if the eskinos have 3000 words for snow (this seems doubtful) in the north of England there are roughly as many for mud. Claggy is runny, clarty comes in lumps.

Jenny · 7865. Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:50 pm

Re #7837 - Camelot seems the obvious answer, but I can't work out the newspaper seller bit!

raindancer · 7866. Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:30 am

Jenny

Camelot it is. A camelot is a newspaper seller!

raindancer · 7867. Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:31 am

hardie

You can see what they think about in the North of England! :)

Frances · 7869. Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:04 am

In Scotland, claggy isn't runny, it's sticky and messy. We talk about a pompous woman as 'Lady Muck from Clabber Castle, Glaurside' - clabber is runny mud that makes your hands and face filthy; glaur is claggy, the kind that makes wellies weight a ton.

hardie · 7874. Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:18 am

Don't know the origins of claggy and clarty but a lot of Scots and Noorthumbrian words are from the French - corbie for crow, cundy for a drain (conduit) etc

Frances · 7875. Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:23 am

Scots has a pile of French words - ashet [an oval plate], petticoat tails [snippety wedges of shortbread rounds, from 'petites couteilles'], to get fashed or fash yourself [to get angry] and so on.

What C is related to the shinbone?

raindancer · 7880. Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:23 pm

Frances

I think the word 'fibula' also means a clasp.

Jenny · 7881. Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:08 am

Raindancer - I think you're right.

I've never heard camelot used for a newspaper seller - where does that connection come from?

raindancer · 7882. Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:26 pm

Jenny

Oh, ye of little faith!*

http://phrontistery.50megs.com/c.html

The nearest derivation I can find so far is the French:

http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/

(You'll have to enter camelot in the search)

(* not true in your case, actually).

raindancer · 7883. Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:26 pm

When is Jenny going to get a big bunch of flowers for her indefatigable work in dreaming up new threads from a seemingly bottomless inspirational well?

Jenny · 7884. Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:48 am

LOL I think they'd die off in the mail on the way here!

Well thank you for the 'camelot' thing - that was a new piece of information to me.

raindancer · 7889. Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:02 am

Nah. Interflora!

Jenny · 7891. Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:20 am

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