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19th January 07, 02:02 AM
#1
Unmentionables
Amonst the thoughtful gifts I received this Christmas was a day by day calendar from my son. This one features obscure and archaic English words - my son knows I am a language buff.
I was having a browse through it today and the entry for 26th Jan ( that's Jan 26 for our US buddies  ) caught my eye:
"Inexpressibles, Unmentionables"
Trousers or breeches... an article of dress not to be mentioned in polite circles. -- William Whitney's Century Dictionary 1889
Yes, that sums it up for me!
Slainte!
Kilted in Great Britain
Barry Talendor
"In Cruce Salus"
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19th January 07, 05:24 AM
#2
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19th January 07, 05:32 AM
#3
Thats good 
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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19th January 07, 05:50 AM
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 Originally Posted by Barry
Amonst the thoughtful gifts I received this Christmas was a day by day calendar from my son. This one features obscure and archaic English words - my son knows I am a language buff.
I was having a browse through it today and the entry for 26th Jan ( that's Jan 26 for our US buddies ) caught my eye:
" Inexpressibles, Unmentionables"
Trousers or breeches... an article of dress not to be mentioned in polite circles. -- William Whitney's Century Dictionary 1889
Yes, that sums it up for me!
Slainte!
Nor to be mentioned amongst the raucous rabble!!
Gentleman of Substance
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19th January 07, 05:56 AM
#5
Wow, where are you from? Our calendar is on the 19th of January and we have another week to go before we hit the 26th. Don't you know the "rule" of day by day calendars - Don't peek ahead and don't tear off the top glue part, see if you can go the whole year without it coming off. haha That is mine and my son's rule for these calendars!
Keep us informed if you run into any words relating to kilts.
DALE.
You don't have to be Scottish to be comfortable!
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19th January 07, 05:58 AM
#6
Enough said . . .
MacWage, "Dark Lord of the Box Pleat!"/ "Box Pleat Militant" Laird of Glenmoor (Carolina)
CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!)
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19th January 07, 06:21 AM
#7
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.” -C.S. Lewis
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19th January 07, 06:48 AM
#8
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
This is a polite forum. We don't speak of such things here.
Cheers
-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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19th January 07, 06:50 AM
#9
I wonder who decided to pull that from current dictionaries. I still believe trousers need not be mentioned!
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19th January 07, 07:54 AM
#10
Originally Posted by Barry
... entry for 26th Jan ( that's Jan 26 for our US buddies [unbearably cute smilie deleted]) ... Slainte!
Ah ha! An opportunity to get on my soap box:
<soapbox rant>
As this world gets smaller and smaller we need to eliminate misunderstandings amonst those of us who "... are separated by a common language" (George Bernard Shaw).
When we specify a time of day we always do it in hours-minutes[-seconds] format (coarsest to finest resolution). Why do we not do the same with dates? There is an international date and time standard, ISO 8601, that, in brief, states that the date format shall be YYYY-MM-DD which is unabiguous.
Anytime I write the date whether it's by hand or not, I now use the ISO 8601 format and encourage everyone else to do the same. This web site could easily be upgraded (mike1) to use the international format - after all we are an international group.
</soapbox rant>
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