Dear Malvary
Laceandbits wrote: And bags: I would say that the meaning is a bit
stronger than choose, more I saw it first and it's mine. Not negotiable.
Or at least, that was how my elder sister interpreted it!
Quite correct - sounds like Canada might use it the same way as we do in
Laceandbits wrote: And bags: I would say that the meaning is a bit
stronger than choose, more I saw it first and it's mine. Not negotiable.
Or at least, that was how my elder sister interpreted it!
And that was how I learned it from our brother, so I'd had 9 years to learn
to be first. I
Thank you, David! I always love picking up a new term I've never
heard of. Bags I'd never heard in Ohio or Michigan - Dibs for
sure; or sometimes (especially for a piece of food) I spit on this
- especially if accompanied by actually spitting on the piece of
food, it's pretty effective in
In Edinburgh in the 40s to the 60s we used bags and bagsy: I bags the
front seat in the bus, or bagsy I the cake with the pink icing. Never
dibs.
As for gammon it sounds very dated to me - maybe Dickens or Lewis Carrol
vintage - and in my mind it means, as David suggests, bullsh*t - someone's
Answers to two threads.
First bugs: I would also query the parental example theory of terror of bugs
(and other creepy crawlies) as I am fairly immune to most and can quite
happily pick up in my hands (bearing in mind that none of the UK ones are
poisonous) spiders, beetles, worms, frogs and
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Answers to two threads.
First bugs: I would also query the parental example theory of terror of bugs
(and other creepy crawlies) as I am fairly immune to most and can quite
happily pick up in my hands
But two of my three children (one
