You pay extra for ‘named meat’
Quite the newfangled usage, then ;- )
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If you buy “meat” in Queen’s Market Newham, it’s goat.
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Compared to the Norman conquest, which I assumed Joe was thinking of, yes, it’s quite a while later.
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It was the ‘only’ that tickled me.
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What’s a couple of hundred years between friends?
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(wistful memories)
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I am fascinated by the amount of English is Germanic despite the Romans and the Norman eff
Here we have Gaelic influences as well
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romanes eunt domus!
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Romani ite domum, says I.
Morning, all.
Soo xx
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Germanic, or even more northern, was what held the country between the Romans and the Normans; we had Anglo-Saxon and then Danish kings, after all.
The Gaels on the edges were rather defeated, and the Saxons didn’t borrow words from them much as a result. It’s actually quite interesting how few Welsh words made their way into the commonly-spoken language even where the two peoples did march together. They are mostly peculiar to the Marches or even to the English-speaking Welsh; there are exceptions like “flannel”, “coombe” (probable not certain, that one, because there’s a Germanic word very similar), “gull”, “mither” (or “moither”, which is Yorkshire and has no business descending from the Welsh say I); “tor” is one which is fairly widespread, and rivers called “Avon”.
Not a lot, in a language with a million or so words!
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A lot of place names here have Gaelic origins
We live in the meadow of the big stones if we translated it
The next townland is the grave of Tumper
Our nearest village is The church of St Michael
Our nearest town is Ross’s church
The beach I like is in the village calling itself the little castle - complete with crumbling castle guarding a river mouth
All great fun to translate
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Funny, that ;- )
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Yes really funny as the English spent about 800 years not allowing folk their language their religion property or education
This house we live in was seized from an absentee landlord in 1922 and sold to the tenants by the state
The house is first recorded in 1650 to land registry and refers to an existing dwelling on the site
That is a hell of a lot of rent paid to someone they never saw
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Funnily enough, the same is true of the vast majority of houses in England as well. And most people in England were not either landowners or nobility.
(I do get bored with being told that “I” oppressed this that or the other lot of people. For one thing I wasn’t alive, and for another if I had been alive the chances are I would not have been in a position to oppress anyone.)
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The divide between the Haves and Havenots is always a thorny topic of conversation
I will divert it with a true tale about our snowboy leopard
Despite having big blue eyes that see very well he was caught half an hou ago making off with my fancy magnifying with a light tool to help me see magazines knitting patterns etc that the Blind charity got for me along with a white indicator cane
It is definitely not a cat toy whatever he thinks
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You foolish human. He wants to play with it just now. He is a cat. ergo and by definition it is a Cat Toy.
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Gus dearheart
I try to ensure that the spotty horror is aware of the boss in this house
ME and what I say is the rools
Cats that steal tools are NOT fed
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You are not the boss of him; you are merely a Useful Ape.
Cat-think, that is.
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I have opposable thumbs so I can open tins of cat fud
He can’t so I win
He is now on my lap purring sweetly
What is he plotting?
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If it comforts you, go on thinking that…
The usual sort of thing - world domination with extra mice and catnip, at a guess. Thin crust.
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