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Jonathon Green wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 09, 1996 7:00 am

If slang lexicograopher Eric Partridge is correct, then so too is the suggestion that brass tacks is indeed rhyming slang for 'facts'.

Let us not forget:

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

Did you know?

Bella Festas daz Nadal!

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Archived Reply wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:46 am

Isn't there a natural rhythm to many of these non-reversible couplets?

I think so!
It is the rhythm!

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Btw: Nobody in Germany ever says: "Donner und Blitzen!"

And another question:
If Scotland leaves, what will become of the Union Jack?
Will the blue-and-white Saint Andrew's Cross have to be taken out?

The United Kingdom seems set to leave the EU.
I won't comment on that ....

I have another thought or question:
Should Scotland ever leave the United Kingdon, what will the new name be then?
Just Kingdom (K)?

CrazyRom wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 15, 2015 8:32 pm

I will print this list

So will I!

One might ask: "How old were you when man landed on the moon?"
Or: "How old were you when the Berlin Wall came down?"

Something else comes to my mind.

Thursday and thirsty sound slightly simular in English.
Donnerstag and durstig sound quite different in Standard German.

But in my own dialect these two words are completely the same:
Durschdi = Thursday and durschdi = thirsty.

I suspect that often the actors are told to speak that way. Because it is supposed to be so "natural".
But I can do without that "natural" talk.
I prefer to be able to understand what is spoken.

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Phil White wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 12, 2019 5:05 pm

Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Thank you - and same to you!

Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!