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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.06.15 (01) [DE-EN]<br></span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Arial"><br>
>From Heather Rendall <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></font>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ron/Reinhard wrote:Â So, "ish" <i>has</i> become
a word, at least in casual speech in a certain region! I think it was
merely a matter of time. I have occasionally resisted the urge of
saying "ish" myself while making a hand movement like that. It seems so
natural and tempting!</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â Another 'joke' reply, such as 'ish', which has become entirely
accepted without a glance back to its colloquial origins is 'when' </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As in when someone is pouring a drink and they ask the person for
whom it is being poured : "Say when" i.e. when I should stop pouring.
And that person replies 'When!"</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I remember back in the 50s people laughing at this as a joke reply : now it is the accepted reply!</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In the same league when someone said " I 'm hungry ( or thirsty or
tired etc) "Â one replied "Oh really I thought you were Pauline ( or
Robert or Fred whatever name they had).</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I think 'ish' is pretty widespread now. You can hear it on TV and
radio without need for any reaction or lack of comprehension to be
written into the script. One person who uses it a lot is Stephen Fry on
QI and that would be reason enough for it to be spread and accepted.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It even gets used where there is no original adjective to have added 'ish' to!</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"Are you feeling better?" "Ish" where it clearly means "Not entirely"</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Heather</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Worcester UK</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">whose roses took a battering from a hail storm last night and whose
house was flooded ( a bit) by the rising waters of the flash flood that
followed!</p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span>sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>><br>
Subject: Etymology<br><br>Hi, Heather!<br><br>Thanks for the update on "ish".<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
"Are you feeling better?" "Ish" where it clearly means "Not entirely"<br></div>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This confirms the development I tried to predict.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
The "when" thing is current all over the English-speaking world, by the way.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhad/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br><br>P.S.: I hope you'll soon have dry feet again. We're in for some rain here later this week, after a long spell of splendid summer weather.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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