And there I thought one usually read through what one was writing in reply to another post before clicking on “reply”…
I am quite impressed that Word knew about Loki’s daughter the goddess of death and the underworld; most people nowadays spell her Hell and give her a majuscule initial, though.
It would certainly explain it being a codeine departure.
What with sending for this duck and departing from hens soddenly, this is beginning to feel like the Poultry Report.
Not everyone is sufficiently confident about spelling and grammar to question the correction, so might not be aware of the malapropism even if they did read it over.
Well, this might be another example: “[He and his sister] then became enthralled in a financial battle over their inheritance.”
It does leave one wondering what word the writer intended to use, doesn’t it? Maybe “embroiled”?
Entangled?
Soo xx
Several recent sightings suggest that “brassic” is gaining traction (owstoppitsoz).
The perpetrators could perhaps be punished by being shut up with only Lewis Goracic Gibbon for company.
Meaning skint? It’s been around in that meaning all century, and I met it in Norf Lunnon as long ago as the seventies, it being rhyming slang they nicked off the transpontines and all.
But not spelt ‘brassic’, surely?
And no, meaning ‘of calm and equable temperament’, as in Lake Boracic;- )
That’s definitely a new one on me. You’ve been reading Mumsnet again? Might it be a misunderstanding of passive/pacific or something of the sort?
Brassic, spelled brassic, may have come from boracic lint back when that still existed (I haven’t heard of it for many years), but it’s entirely in keeping with the beast that it got shortened almost immediately in order to confuse people more.
Up North I think brassic is sometimes used to mean freezing, as in the balls off a brass monkey.
Oh. Turns out Brassic was a successful comedy drama and people do indeed spell it that way. I have always found it slightly tricky since, try as I might, my first association is with acid, not lint.
The Northerners are just wrong, or possibly trying to be funny. Need suppressed, if you ask me.
Well, the people who wrote the programme do seem to have been going along with the rhyming slang explanation.
Where does the calm equable temperament come in?
Having the nature of a cabbage?
Boracic acid, placid.
And I wasn’t querying the meaning, just the spelling. And it seems I am decades too late on that and have evidently not been paying attention.
I dunno abaht vat, Sparrer, some greens can be dahnright cruciferous…
Boracic Lint = Brassic= Skint here.
See also ‘he was on the bones of his arse’.
Baltic is more commonly used these days to express extreme cold, although I still say that it is Brass Monkey weather, as do many of my generation.
Carinthia. xx
Baltic w#rks for me. as does brass monkeys (as phrases, not conditions).
I must remember to adopt a whippet.
Soo xx
Have you thought that through, though, Soo? It doesn’t stop at the whippet: next there’s the flat cap, and before you know it it’s wall-to-wall racing pigeons and gravy on yer chips…
Aye - and strange Northern sayings! I’ll think on, Dear.
Soo xx
See, it’s not all bad.