QuoteYe everr et er ?

Do you need an ambulance Ian, are you having a stroke?

Quote from: fred. on 05 September 2024, 04:42:44 PMDo you need an ambulance Ian, are you having a stroke?

No he is just waiting for the nice men in white coats to come and give him his medicine.

Bit late replying but on reading this went to Thuroczy's Chronicle of the Hungarians  On line 209 he writes about the Hussites and "says The adherents of this sect, especially those who are our neighbours in Bohemia and its regions, we call Hussites". I travelled to Tabor, as well as following the trail of the "Bratrice" (brothers) after the defeat at Lipan, and was a guest of the Czech Government and Cultural Ministry. I have never heard the Hussites called anything else. Thuroczy's work was published in Brunn (Brno) in 1488.
The Lance and Longbow Society have a few copies left of my small book on "Janos Hunyadi and the Turkish Invasions o Hungary in the 15th Century" which includes details of Jan Huss, Jan Zizk, Jan Jiskra of Brandsy and other who are part of the Hussite story.

QuoteI was listening to the excellent "My Word" radio series from the 1970s. One of the words they were asked to define was "google".

Apparently, it meant to bowl a googly.

For non-cricketers, a googly (or googlie) can be explained as "while a normal leg break spins from the leg to the off side, away from a right-handed batter, a googly spins the other side, from off to leg, into a right-handed batter (and is distinct from an off break delivery)."

Hope that clarifies. 

It's a wrong-un, or a "Bosie" for our pals in Australia.

QuoteThen, now, and forever, haggis-eaters!


(actually, haggis is rather tasty....)

Tis tasty, and we eat very little of it.


It isn't easy to deep fry.

Thinking of other "factional titles".

"Ite" is a common suffix for the other lot.
"Kin" was common self description for religious communities.

Quote from: Perkunos on 08 July 2025, 12:36:10 PMThe Lance and Longbow Society have a few copies left of my small book on "Janos Hunyadi and the Turkish Invasions o Hungary in the 15th Century" which includes details of Jan Huss, Jan Zizk, Jan Jiskra of Brandsy and other who are part of the Hussite story.

And I can vouch for it being a very good book indeed 

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 08 July 2025, 02:33:59 PMIt's a wrong-un, or a "Bosie" for our pals in Australia.

According to adult comic magazine Viz a "wrong-un" is something else, entirely different 😉

QuoteAccording to adult comic magazine Viz a "wrong-un" is something else, entirely different 😉

There are several meanings for wrong-un.


Daily Mail editor 1946 "Who'd have guessed that Adolph was a wrong-un".


But in a cricketing context it's the Googly.

I feel as though I'm becoming the "Dictionary Corner" person.

Vegan and beautiful like Ms. Dent?

Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 09 July 2025, 10:28:25 AMVegan and beautiful like Ms. Dent?

Doubt either - I mean a vegan Scot....