[SOC] Harry Hewitt

[Chris Redding]

Hello Jan,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Clute" <JANCLUTE at peoplepc.com>
To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Harry Hewitt


"whilst," ...we use whilst because in most of Northern England 'while' means
'until'.
So..."don't put your fingers on the terminals while the power is switched
on" could mean a zapped Northerner, albeit a thick one.

 "amongst," ...You can be physically amongst friends, but be among the best
at something.

"whinge," ...over to you, Mr Purdie :-)

"lorry," ...a truck is the same as a trolley...something for moving pianos,
for example.

"flat," ...I live in one...it's all on one level, so it's flat.

"verti-comma" (sic?). ...never heard of this one.

>>>"Nil", for instance, does not exist in
> sports-Yank, but is near-universal in sports-Brit<<<<<.

If you support certain soccer teams, you only ever get to hear 'nil' when
they read out the results. When I was a child, the local teams were:
Manchester United, Manchester City and Everton Nil....I used to think that
was the name of the team.

>>>>............until I heard endless Cricket reporting on the BBC one
evening. The sound of my head smacking the table woke me from a refreshing
nap)<<<<.

Irony never made it across the Atlantic. The secret of successful cricket
commentary is to talk about everything else:  balloons blowing across the
field, passing buses, birds, clouds, aircraft....anything but cricket.  It's
like the SOC attitude to radio - it's just taken as read.  I don't expect
anybody to understand this at all.

It's just shocking what us Brits have done to the American language.

Chris G4PDJ



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