[SOC] Harry Hewitt

[Jan Clute]

Indeed, indeed! (I like your last line.) My father's mother was from
Sheffield. I suspect I would have great difficulty talking to the lady, but
she was gone before I was born and my father's last vestiges of the dialect
were beaten out of him on the playgrounds of Delano and Watsonville, CA. (so
he names me "Jan" so I can have the same experience he had at school
defending his dialect! Is that what "pass it forward" really means?)

The other sports commentators that cracked me up was the Australian rules
football that some satellite feed sports channel used to carry at odd hours
of the night when they didn't think anyone would be watching. The Aussie
commentators were as hard to listen to as ours often are, and the
ballet-like moves of the fellow in the white hat and robe/duster/overcoat
(chief referee?) that no one ever explained were as interesting as the
obscure terminology, which was as alien to me as the cricket-talk (were
there just some big play-offs in or near India or Pakistan? I could go down
to the local convenience store (or motel) almost anywhere in the US and ask
someone from there, but it is more challenging this way! 73 Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Redding" <chris.redding at g4pdj.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Harry Hewitt


> 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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