Roly Beevor on mon 22 may 06
Joyce
Now here at last I can help you. A ha-ha is a sunken fence. When you have
a park around a house you don't want the view spoiled by a fence or wall,
and you dont want the prize gurnseys getting in and eating the herbaceous
border. In effect a deep ditch with a vertical face. Of course if you walk
down the garden in the fog you are likely come a cropper over the ha-ha, and
the joke is on you.
Courgette is the French word for zucchini, a small marrow, don't blame us
for that. A lorry is a truck, the drivers call them waggons. A lift
elevates you. A lollipop is an old fashioned sweet on a stick and an ice
lolly same made with ice. Knackered means tired out, fit to go to the
knackers, the abbatoir where horses are dispatched, knackers incidentally is
a term for dangly bits, we wont go there.
A gurnsey I should have said is a type of cow, originating in the eponymous
Channel Island, not a woollen garment in this case.
"Red lorry, yellow lorry" is a tongue twister, also "a little yellow lorry
with a little yellow roof". Don't let your Japanese neighbours try it.
Roly
-----Original Message-----
From: "JOYCE LEE"
To:
Date: 22 May 2006 15:47
Subject: Cranks
Allyson said:
"just thought it was another of those strange little British words I didn't
understand like courgette, lory, lift, icelollie, nackered,....
Peace,
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Thanks for the reminder, Allyson. A local bookclub is reading an
English mystery novel wherein the protagonist refers to a
"haha," apparently as if it were the name for a kind of place.
Any UKers have any idea what it is?
Joyce
In the Mojave Desert of California USA
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