Tim P said:Help a limey out...
tus kee gee or tuskajee? (as pronounce in a UK documentary on the TV at the moment)
pow keep sie or pukipsy? (as often mused over with an original a2 I owned.)
deckatur or de kaay tur (painted a2 390th BG museum framlingham)?
Tim P said:Help a limey out...
tus kee gee or tuskajee? (as pronounce in a UK documentary on the TV at the moment)
pow keep sie or pukipsy? (as often mused over with an original a2 I owned.)
deckatur or de kaay tur (painted a2 390th BG museum framlingham)?
DUBOWA2 said:Tim P said:Help a limey out...
tus kee gee or tuskajee? (as pronounce in a UK documentary on the TV at the moment)
pow keep sie or pukipsy? (as often mused over with an original a2 I owned.)
deckatur or de kaay tur (painted a2 390th BG museum framlingham)?
Does any one know where limey came from ,clue it goes back to sailors on sailing ships .
Rgds jeff
I like your 'spelling' better! ........you seemed to capture it. Just a hard thing to write out.jack aranda said:I have always heard 'puh-KIP-see' , as well as 'deh-KAAY-tur', but, I'm not from either (eye-ther? ee-ther? place, so I may not be qualified to comment. One thing I do know, Tim, I will soon be corrected :lol:
deeb7 said:Limey is an old American and Canadian slang nickname for the British, originally referring to British sailors. The term is believed to derive from lime-juicer, referring to the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy practice of supplying lime juice to British sailors to prevent scurvy. The benefits of citrus juice were well known at the time thanks to the acute observations of surgeon James Lind who noticed that the cabbage-eating Dutch had fewer problems with scurvy. Limes were used over lemons because limes were more readily available from Britain's own Caribbean colonies. The term is thought to have originated in the Caribbean in the 1880s
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dujardin said:it depends if it's an american from the north or from the south ????
also if it's an englishman from London or one of the highlands...
and now imagine if it's a frenchman or a belgian speaking.... or a spanish... or portuguesh'
and the one from Moscow....da
really complicated..... too complicated.
byeeeeeeeee marcel
DUBOWA2 said:... freeze the balls off a brass monkey?.Also to do with sailing ships .
Anyone know.