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#25 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 09:31:28 am
Popular local phrase, in the villages around the southern edge of Dartmoor, and a favourite of my Grandmother; was “San Fairy Ann”.

Interesting origin but not sure it's that local, my gran lived in Birmingham and she used to say it. Maybe it came back from the war?

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#26 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 09:43:46 am
Curiously its acronym would be SFA.

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#27 Re: Eggcorns
November 18, 2018, 10:26:03 am
Popular local phrase, in the villages around the southern edge of Dartmoor, and a favourite of my Grandmother; was “San Fairy Ann”.

Interesting origin but not sure it's that local, my gran lived in Birmingham and she used to say it. Maybe it came back from the war?

I’m told it originates either from the Norman era (I think unlikely, as an opinion) or from the “Onion Johnnies”, mainly Bretons, who exploited the early days of cross channel ferries and the rationing in the UK post war; to cycle around selling “stuff”, often in the Breton striped jersey and with a string of onions around their necks.
Google says the phrase crops up in Cycling circles too, but I found references to it in Kent as well.
Possibly most common within easy cycling distance of a channel port?
WW1 and 2 import from trenches or Continental combatants (or refugees)?

Still, I know most of the old folk that used it, didn’t know what it was.

Edit.

My Dad says, they probably weren’t onions, it was likely garlic; but as a kid, he and his friends didn’t know what garlic was, so they called them onions.

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#28 Re: Eggcorns
November 19, 2018, 11:01:36 am
Popular local phrase, in the villages around the southern edge of Dartmoor, and a favourite of my Grandmother; was “San Fairy Ann”.

Interesting origin but not sure it's that local, my gran lived in Birmingham and she used to say it. Maybe it came back from the war?

Popular with my Mother too, a Lancastrian. I do like the adoption of foreign phrases, raisin and mayday from the french etc.

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#29 Re: Eggcorns
November 19, 2018, 11:27:21 am
Americans say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less" - I don't know why, but it really does my head in. I want to explain why its wrong every time I hear it.

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#30 Re: Eggcorns
November 19, 2018, 01:47:49 pm
I like all the mute points being made here.

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#31 Re: Eggcorns
November 19, 2018, 04:37:37 pm
Oh! Oh!

Don’t forget THE most irritating of all:

Expresso.

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#32 Re: Eggcorns
November 19, 2018, 06:24:25 pm
If you are mentioning Expresso, i’m afraid I have to re-post this:


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#33 Re: Eggcorns
November 19, 2018, 06:43:42 pm
All this sounds like an idea for a bbc2 / dave tv show. The host being a chimera of Stephen Fry and Will

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November 19, 2018, 07:24:58 pm

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#35 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 09:36:47 am
Not forgetting

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#36 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 02:03:52 pm
All this sounds like an idea for a bbc2 / dave tv show. The host being a chimera of Stephen Fry and Will

Dave Gorman did an episode of "Modern Life" on them.

Ones i can remember are;

"Like a bowl in a china shop"
"On this from the gecko"

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#37 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 02:27:28 pm
I’ve been going over these with a fine toothcomb.

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#38 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 03:45:49 pm
"On tenderhooks."

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#39 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 03:57:55 pm
"Wet my appetite".

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#40 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 04:18:46 pm
"Wet my appetite".

Oh, yes. Thank you! This is a favourite.

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#41 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 04:20:39 pm
This thread is a total damp squid.

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#42 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 04:23:49 pm
Peaked/ peeked my interest.

Someone at work used the term "Get shut on 'im" yesterday which I think is an eggcorn of "Get shot of him" with a bit of language-mangling local dialect thrown in.

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#43 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 04:24:36 pm
This thread is a total damp squid.

You're right, it just doesn't pass mustard.

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#44 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 04:39:12 pm
"Wet my appetite".

Oh, yes. Thank you! This is a favourite.

Though only really committed when written.

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#45 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 05:20:52 pm
A propos good grammar...


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#46 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 06:20:45 pm
"It's the Laura Average"

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#47 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 07:42:53 pm
"It's the Laura Average"

Still, she has a nice personality.

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#48 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 08:08:56 pm
Laura Norder is often missing on Merseyside.

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#49 Re: Eggcorns
November 20, 2018, 08:15:06 pm
Pretty good double whammy spotted today whilst browsing tools on screwfix, written by a negative reviewer:
"To change belts you'll need a size 1 and size 2 pozi screwdriver, a hex key and oddles of patients"

 

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