LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.06.13 (03) [E]

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From: Gavin.Falconer at gmx.net
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.06.13 (02) [E]

I suspect that "hump" in this sense is a misspelling of "humph".  People
who
are hunch-backed are described as "humphy-backit" too.

I remember hearing a few years ago that, when the BBC sold 'Eastenders'
to
the US, the Cockney expression "to have the hump" (like a bad-tempered
camel?)
was to be bleeped out.

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Language varieties"

> From:  "Bori rieger" <boririeger at yahoo.com>
> Subject: question
> To: sassisch at yahoo.com
>
> Dear Sir,
> I am an English majoy in Hungary, and I am taking a seminar on
> Traditional Dialects.
> I am writing to ask, whether the words : buggers (meanning chaps), to
> hump (meaning to carry) and afore for before are present in the lowland
> Scottish dialect. If not could you please tell me which dialect they are
> in?
> Thank you very much for your help.

"bugger" meaning a person, usually a man, is found generally
in Scots and generally in British English.

"afore" meaning before is found generally in Scots and also
in the south-western dialects of English.

"hump" meaning carry is "humph" /hVmf/ in Scots - it's not
used in the "rude" sense that Ron mentions in Scots, though
"hump" in British English can be used this way.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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