h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Definitely coffee for me, please! (Or should that be coffie?)

As for rooves, it just isn't there. Looked in my very big Random House dictionary (one of the few things I treasure from my native USA), and only found roofs.

But we could add 'rooves', thus enriching the English language, and perhaps putting a gratified smile on the face of Trillian's child.

Who do we lobby to get it recognised?

The Oxford Enlish Dictionary Sub-Committee (I think)
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Do we stand outside their offices waving placards, shouting "we demand rooves"?

They'll probably say we already have it. It's to do with rivets (plaguesville 2 days ago).
As with most words in the dictionary, the reason they are there is because they have been in common usage at some point. So the answer is that we all have to start saying "rooves" as an alternative to "roofs", and eventually the dictionary might change!

Or just kick the dictionary into touch with our hoofs (or is that hooves)?!?!?!


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Rooves, rooves, rooves, rooves, rooves,...


(Is that enough to get it in?)

Works for me...

dogs bollocks are considered good because they are always licking them so they have got taste or a least look really good.

if you had to eat dog food you'd probably lick your bollocks too. anything to get rid of the taste!

Hi, there, Researcher 146649.
On behalf of this forum, Welcome.
How flattering that you should choose this for your first posting.
I trust that you are not shocked by the sudden lowering of the tone. It's (OK?) all the fault of a certain colonial who must remain nameless but her name begins with a "K" and ends with "aeori".
(Sorry for the public greeting but you have not set up your home page so I couldn't post there.)

I remember having a very long conversation in another forum (or was it even this one?) on the subject of milk first or last. Or were you trying to provoke me?

It might have been "Tea Stirring". I remember promising someone a recipe for scones. And everyone's mouth was watering at the description of an English tea in a summer garden. Maybe I shall revive it in a couple of weeks if we have an Indian summer. Better still, seeings as this is cyberworld, we could have a garden party at Christmas with scones and strawberry jam. To cheer us up when the weather is miserable.

As long as we don't have it on the roof!

plaguesville:

Well, thanks a heap! How was I to know that "it's the dog's" referred to its testicles? I've been agog at some of the stuff that's emerged in this thread! Always interesting, I have to say.

At the risk of inciting civil war amongst the Brits, as the subject of 'scones' has been raised, why do some of you pronounce it 'scons', instead of 'scones' (rhyming with 'stones')? Is it something to do with its Scottish origins?

Almonds? - Aremonnds/Olmonds?
Nougat? - Nougar/Nugget?
:-p

Almonds? - Aremonds/Olmonds?
Nougat? - Nougar/Nugget?
:-p

(RickD - try an upper case 'P' for the smiley)

Is that a recipe, or a controversy?

Amonds, Nougar, Scons, every time.
I remember a great Goodies thing about Scon(e)s during a hunt for a Devon Cream mine. I suppose it don't matter, as long as you don't say skoons.

Yet another fragment dredged from the bottom of what passes nowadays for my mind:
I asked the girl in dulcet tone
To bring to me a buttered scone.
The silly child has been and gone
And brought for me a buttered scone

(and Armund noogah for me )

As someone who is currently living in Devon, even the locals can't decide on the pronunciation of scon(e), so your guess is as good as mine.

I thought the Goodies sketch was about mining rich veins of clotted cream and (raspberry?) jam in Cornwall? Might be wrong though...

Mmmm, this thread is making me hungry!

Would this be the place to ask about Middle English, or is there a more appropriate area of h2g2?

You mean the type of English as used by Geoffrey Chaucer, etc in the 14th Century?