Re: 'Niss' or 'Nis'

John Briggs wrote:


A little searching shows that the set contains PDF of original scripts - please confirm that you have checked those first.


Obviously, I have checked those that relate to the episodes which I have watched, bearing in mind the set of scripts is incomplete. In most cases, the word and the phrase in which it was uttered are not mentioned. There is no full script for the episode which contains my original quote of 'you niss!'. Certain handwritten documents are not in a hand that I can read.

A direct quote from episode three however has 'The poor old niss.' when referring to someone he considers to be beneath him. That reference appears in the rehearsal script but not in the performance script. Both versions are not available for every episode.

As stated elsewhere, the scripts would show spellings and I offered two options in the subject line.

But this does not help with my enquiry into the origins, and meanings, of the word 'niss' or 'nis' unless as I suggested previously, it was a word devised to represent something akin to '***' without the need to swear on television. That would seem overly squeamish given the acid incident in episode one.

I am following up the suggestion by PD for the moment.


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