Re: hypocorism
- From: "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:05:48 +0100
Andrew Taylor wrote:
On Aug 30, 9:16 pm, "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Nick Spalding wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote, in <46d6c63d$0$13538$88260...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:22:05 +0100:
Adrian Bailey wrote:
Just heard "tilly room" on one o' tham thar TV property shows. :)
Has it made it into the OED?
Not meaning "little", which I think is a coinage by Stella Gibbons
in CCF. The old man who did the washing up was so taken with the
"tilly mop" Flora gave him that, IIRC, he put it in a jar on the
windowsill to look at, and continued doing the dishes with, I
don't know, a handful of gorse or something.
Wasn't that "liddy"?
[...]
Gosh, I don't know, now that you cast doubt! That isn't in OED at
all. Anybody got a copy of /Cold Comfort Farm/ handy?
That nice Mr Google has one:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P-OJmeJEGFkC
Adam used a "thorn twig" to cletter the dishes instead of Flora's
"liddle mop" - the relevant section is on pages 109 and 110.
Ah, thank you. Another Pernicious Error bites the dust. I wonder where I
got "tilly" from. In this new sense of "utility" as in room, it's
another one of these stinky-pooh baby-talks I weelly weelly hate, and I
hope it dies out forthwith.
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Mike.
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