Re: Chatters/Chatties (was Re: introduction

On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 16:12, Roger Mills wrote:
> Elliott Lash wrote:
> >romilly@EGL.NET writes:
> >> That brings up another Brit thing-- addition of -er(s).  I've heard (TV
> >> shows, upper class context) "brekker" for breakfast, "champers" for
> >> Champagne. This, like the William > Wills thing, is
> >> entirely lacking in US
> >> speech AFAIK, except among those who aspire to upper-class
> >> Anglophilia.......;-))
> >
> >Hmm, My friends and I back in Georgetown University frequently do this,
> > and
>
> not one of us is British:
> >we have:
> >Mikers for Mike
> >Crunkers for Crunked (which means "Drunk")
> >although those are the two most used forms, any word could theoretically
>
> take the suffix.
>
> Are you now, or have you ever been, a reader of Evelyn Waugh,
> P.G.Wodehouse, Dorothy Sayers? Or been a fan of "Brideshead Revisited" or
> the Lord Peter Wimsey series on TV?  I suspect that's where I've heard it
> most recently...
>
> >Another suffix that is used sometimes is -ies:
> >
> >Dumpies for Dump(ed)
> >Lashies for Lash (my last Name)
> >Crunkies for Crunked (occasionally)
>
> LOL> Those are good! ;-)
> They bring to mind that odd (British) lady who used to have a dog training
> show on PBS---
> "All right, everyone--- walkies!!"  It was quite a catch-phrase for a
> while.
And I thought, horrors, that's what a walky-talky is - an instrument of
verbal diarrhoea!  next time you're rudely interrupted by a cell-phone rudely
ringing or a cell-phone ponce pulling out a cell-phone and ....

Wesley Parish

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