Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
 

those little marks you put on a page that show where to pause and where not too and where to stop and whether or not you are asking a question of giving a command or just running off at the mouth at a great pace and confusing people who are too drunked up of wasted to put in the natural pauses that seem to be implied by the meaning and the context of what is being said and there are also the big letters and the little ones that are sometimes called upper case and lower case which are terms that come from printing usually with hand compositing which was often done by compositors who were semi literate like the guy who composited merchant of venice but it doesn't matter if it is finnegan's wake;)

Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
 

Oops that should be "finnegans" and "doesnt".

Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
 

We sometimes get posts like that here. I tend to lose patience part way through reading them, and skip to the next post.
So if you want to make a point, please punctuate.

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Have a read at this Margaret. I posted it ages ago but you may not have seen it.

The Importance of Correct Punctuation
-unknown

Dear Garinda,
I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy--will you let me be yours?
Margaret

Dear Garinda,
I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?
Yours,
Margaret

Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
 

Dear Gary,
He or she wasn't quoting me. He was just illustrating a point. ;)

Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
 

There is an example from an oracular prediction given to a king going off to war.
The prediction: "Ibo redibus nunquam in bello peribis" (sorry my Latin is rough and rusty) which means something like "you will go you will return never in war will you perish." Depending on how you punctuate it, it can mean two entirely different things. The king interpreted it in a positve way; went off to war; was defeated and killed.

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The wife says it.:)

Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
 

My accent and dialect are almost completely gone ... I lived in Saskatchewan for about fifteen years, and Brits are as rare as trees in the prairies; so, I guess I just slipped into the lingo without noticing it. I can still make sense of dialect poetry, but some of the slang confuses me ... one thing I did discover tho' was why, in Lancashire, "who" is often substituted for "she".

Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
 

I remember having a chuckle whilst in Birmingham a few years ago, I was interested to hear someone say 'the neighbours are having it off again!' which, in Birmingham, of course means 'having a row/tiff'

Re: Our Father, who art in Heaven.
 

Just heard that google, with a small G, is now in the concisest English dictionary.

Re: Our Father, who art in Heaven.
 

Well the word has been around a long time,I remember a hit record in the 60's by the Nashville Teens called Google Eye.:theband:

Re: Ower Father, who art in Heaven.
 

Funny article in the Guardian today about Regional English.

A few words that they credited to Lancashire that I hadn't heard.

The G2 guide to regional English | UK news | The Guardian

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I commonly say "Stop fleckin'" if someone is scratching themselves. Someone I know from the Potteries area thought I'd made the word up!!

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Sounds like a load of Tethera-Bumpit to me Gayle:D

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Used to remember an old Irish bloke saying what the feck are you doing:rolleyes: