Hussites - or maybe Huskin?

[Elliesdad]

On BBC4 tonight (Monday 2 September) there was an episode of Call My Bluff from the 1970's.
One of the words defined was HUSKIN which one of the players described as followers of John/Jan Hus/Huss - Bohemian 15th century anti-papists. Imagine my surprise when the definition was declared as the True answer.
I've always thought called these people Hussites and I've never heard the word Huskin before. An online search, however, points me towards the OED which says that Huskin was first used in the mid 1500's.
Oh well, that's new fact for me today.

[Orcs]

Interesting, we have considered listening to Call my Bluff again, but thought it might be a little dated.

[Steve J]

Ah, Call My Bluff, now that takes me back many decades !

[fsn]

I 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. 

[FierceKitty]

The Czechs themselves call them Hussites, and I think I'll recognise their authority in this. 

[Last Hussar]

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

The search engine, however, takes its name from 'googol', which is 10^100.

[d_Guy]

Hope that clarifies. 

   uh - no 

[Raider4]

. . .never heard the word Huskin before. An online search, however, points me towards the OED which says that Huskin was first used in the mid 1500's.

First and only usage, as far as I can find.


250 years ago people from Scotland were known as 'Scotch'. Before that they were 'Scots'. Now they're 'Scottish'. Languages evolve.

If you read My Secret Life - not recommended - you'll repeatedly find some women described as 'gay'. Means a prostitute, as far as I can gather.

[FierceKitty]

First and only usage, as far as I can find.


250 years ago people from Scotland were known as 'Scotch'. Before that they were 'Scots'. Now they're 'Scottish'. Languages evolve.

Then, now, and forever, haggis-eaters!


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

[fsn]

The search engine, however, takes its name from 'googol', which is 10^100.

Yes, I know. It was just a little jarring to hear the word "google" coming from a 1972 recording, and rather gratifying to find it was a cricketing term, rather than a mathematical one.

  uh - no 

Ah! https://adrianarnold.medium.com/explaining-cricket-to-an-american-63001a44d5cf

[Orcs]

Then, now, and forever, haggis-eaters!


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

And what's wrong with Haggis?

[FierceKitty]

And what's wrong with Haggis?

Ye havenae read me entire post, laddie.

[Orcs]

Ye havenae read me entire post, laddie.

Correct , I just took a wee look.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

And what's wrong with Haggis?

Ye everr et er ?

[d_Guy]

@fsn Ta, bookmarked for later.

@orcs i skipped the look but took the wee

[fred.]

Ye everr et er ?

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

[Orcs]

Do 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.

[Perkunos]

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.

[steve_holmes_11]

I 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.

[steve_holmes_11]

Then, 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.