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Mourne Kransky
22:39 / 24.02.06
Maven? I have assumed it means something like expert, fanatic, enthusiast, aficionado?

Ouster? Why the -er when we would say Ousting, which seems more cromulent, grammatically.

And since you say rout for route, do you still say rout for to defeat or to cause to flee?
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
22:57 / 24.02.06
[blatant lie]

Strewth means "God's Truth".

OR STRONG TRUTH!

[/blatant lie]

Ahem. Also sometimes heard as "Cor strewth".

See also Cor/Gor Blimey ([May the]Good Lord blind me), often shortened to Cor!

Blimey is a personal favourite - it trips gently off the tongue at moments of surprise, like suddenly being in an Ealing comedy-drama...
 
 
grant
02:47 / 25.02.06
Yes on the "rout," maven is generally less fan and more enthusiastic expert (and almost always in the sense of "the person to talk to about this subject is this person; this person has the last word or defining opinion about this"), and I'm just as baffled by "ouster" as you.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:56 / 25.02.06
See also Cor/Gor Blimey ([May the]Good Lord blind me), often shortened to Cor!

Or weirdened to Gordon Bennett.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
07:58 / 25.02.06
And yet weirder to Cor Luvaduck.

Let's hope "Gordon Bennett!" never becomes "Gordon Brown!" instead.
 
 
Isadore
09:22 / 25.02.06
Query: Do British folk actually say 'Zounds!' sometimes?

Some answers: As to breakfast, I tend towards either oatmeal, muffins, sourdough pancakes with eggs and syrup on top, or hash browns topped with eggs, with coffee or tea to drink depending on how much sleep I got the night before.

Also, I always understood 'maven' to be the feminine version of 'master' (since 'mistress' has nasty connotations), as in 'webmaven'.
 
 
Spaniel
09:29 / 25.02.06
"Zounds"?

No.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:31 / 25.02.06
"Maven" just means" somebody who knows stuff - gender neutral, as far I know. Hebrew root.

"Zounds" - no. Not generally. Unless we're stretching the credulity of Americans...
 
 
Spaniel
09:33 / 25.02.06
And, please, could someone not come along and say "but I use the word all the time". You might, the rest of us don't.

I quite like it though.
 
 
Isadore
09:36 / 25.02.06
That's a pity; it's quite a fun expletive (how often does one get to refer to God's wound's in a normal day, after all). ... I may have to start using it, just to confuse people.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:17 / 25.02.06
We do, however, say "gadzooks" all the time. All of us.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
12:04 / 25.02.06
Gadzooks' sirrah, indeed we do utter "zounds" upon a time or two, mayhap in reference to the punk-rock minstrels of that name, perchance?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:40 / 25.02.06


On the Crass label they were, and everything.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
13:19 / 25.02.06
If Zounds is a non-blaspheming way to say God's Wounds, surely Gadzooks is a variant of God Sucks?

I read elsewhere that it's actually a corruption of God's Hooks (for the nails that were driven into the Cross) and that these were also popular in the 17th and 18th centuries: Gadsbobs,
Gadsnigs,
Gadsbudlikins,
Gadsokers,
Gadsprecious, and
Gadswookers.

By Golly and, even, By Gosh.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:33 / 25.02.06
Od's bodkins, Mistress Meaker!
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
14:58 / 25.02.06
I'm going to start saying gadswookers any day now. I know it.

Gadsprecious has a certain, um, ring to it too.
 
 
Saltation
15:47 / 25.02.06
"it's not my zound already, is it? how many's that?"
 
 
Olulabelle
18:53 / 25.02.06
I'm sure I'd probably get punched in the face if I used any of those Gads words. But then people laugh at me for pronoucing the word sandwich 'sand-witch' instead of 'samwidge'.
 
 
Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
18:57 / 25.02.06
I'm going to start saying gadswookers any day now. I know it.

The new Barbelith callsign is now "gadswookers"!

Heh. It DOES have a ring to it.
 
 
Jub
10:01 / 06.03.06
How is the word Oxymoron supposed to be pronounced? I've heard it both by US/UK people saying Och-si-more-ron, but I remember my old English teacher (in UK) telling me it was pronounced Ox-im-or-ron.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
10:04 / 06.03.06
I don't know about the UK, but I've never heard it like
Ox-im-or-ron.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
12:24 / 06.03.06
Scans with Roxy Music.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
20:38 / 06.03.06
I've heard and said it both ways (it would be nice to be able to do both at the same time of course)
 
  

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