This is not so much grammar as a local expression. In Somerset, instead of
saying Where is it? or Where's mum gone? they say Where's it to? and
Where's mum to?
When I first heard it I thought they were saying Where is it going to?,
but they weren't.
Jean in Poole
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Dear Noelene,
Re Friar's Balsam
Highly recommended, but whatever you do, DON'T throw the stuff
out down the kitchen/bathroom sink - when cold, it will block the drains!
It is a healing compound, and was once also used for healing cuts and
wounds.
Quite true. It will heal any small crack or cut
I grew up in the fifties with practical parents -- a Mother, God love her,
who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was
the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it...
A Father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones.
Their marriage was
TEN PUBLIC SERVANTS
(A cautionary poem for our times)
Ten Public Servants standing in a line
One of them was downsized
then there were nine.
Nine Public Servants who must negotiate,
One joined the union
then there were eight.
Eight Public Servants thought they were in heaven,
'til one of them
Jean
That is very similar to South Wales where they say Where to are you going?.
My favourite, said around '73, '74, '75 in response, I think, to my talking
about some event I was about to attend: Where to is it at then? As you can
see, I have never forgotten it.
Patricia in Wales
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Clay,
sorry to upset you on this but bling bling means expensive and over the top.
If you wear all your expsenive jewllery at once and then some you are bling
bling.
Of if you put on all your designer labels at once and your jewllery then you
are bling bling.
Of course - this would require you
Hi Liz !
Thank you SO much for straightening me out before I made a
complete idiot of myself in public (like Arachne isn't
public...) But I only heard a tiny bit of what he was
saying, and that's what I got out of it... Goes to show!
I'm awfully glad I haven't used that expression out loud
Clay,
Ah, but I have the advantage of having a hip and trendy DJ only feet from me
whilst on night shift who is up on all these words.
I only recognised it as there has been an awful lot on tv over here in the
UK about bling bling and how there are two main types who do it. Those who
have more
The last verse of David's rhyme:
The last Public Servant agreed to relocate,
Replaced by 10 consultants at twice the hourly rate.
is similar, yet quite different, to what happened to my younger brother.
He worked for BP oil as an executive engineer, on a very nice salary, thank
you very much,
