Yer sayin’ it wrong!!

JaniceM said:
There are language translations in some search engines.. maybe they should come up with English -> English :oops:
What is a "peerie"?
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it's an old fashioned spinning top...:D

A peerie is a top with a cast-metal point, and you spin it by winding a string round it and then throwing it with a jerk. The best spinners held the top upside down while throwing.
 

hollydolly said:
it's an old fashioned spinning top...:D

A peerie is a top with a cast-metal point, and you spin it by winding a string round it and then throwing it with a jerk. The best spinners held the top upside down while throwing.
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And I thought it was Brit slang meaning someone from a peer group. Thanks
 
hollydolly said:
it's an old fashioned spinning top...:D

A peerie is a top with a cast-metal point, and you spin it by winding a string round it and then throwing it with a jerk. The best spinners held the top upside down while throwing.
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I didn't know that, hollydolly. I suspect it comes from the word 'pirouette'.
 
I really LOL'd while watching a case on "Judge Judy." The litigants were both black & sometimes they have their own words & phrases.
The guy testified about how angry his girlfriend was & he said "She was raising sand." Judge Judy asked the bailiff what that means while the audience roared.

Another litigant said, "We conversated about it." Judge Judy said, "Conversate is not a word in the English language."

On another court show - "People's Court," before Judge Milian, Ed Koch was the judge. A young litigant said, "I axed him." The judge said, "Young man, if you want people to respect you & think of you as intelligent, don't say "Axed," say "Asked."
 
win231 said:
I really LOL'd while watching a case on "Judge Judy." The litigants were both black & sometimes they have their own words & phrases.
The guy testified about how angry his girlfriend was & he said "She was raising sand." Judge Judy asked the bailiff what that means while the audience roared.

Another litigant said, "We conversated about it." Judge Judy said, "Conversate is not a word in the English language."

On another court show - "People's Court," before Judge Milian, Ed Koch was the judge. A young litigant said, "I axed him." The judge said, "Young man, if you want people to respect you & think of you as intelligent, don't say "Axed," say "Asked."
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This is the point....people judge you on how you speak. It says a great deal about who you are.
 
hollydolly said:
A peerie is a top with a cast-metal point, and you spin it by winding a string round it and then throwing it with a jerk. The best spinners held the top upside down while throwing.
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My grandfather used to say....

One, two, three O'Leary
Haud ma whip,
Tae a spin ma peerie
Oh a canna spin ma peerie
Wish a were a laddie.

And a snippit from TV..

Detective Sergeant Lewis:
Death would have been instant, would it not?

Chief Inspector Morse:
[Annoyed] "Occurred instantaneously", Lewis, or "was instantaneous" if you must. Coffee may be instant, death may not.
 
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win231 said:
I really LOL'd while watching a case on "Judge Judy." The litigants were both black & sometimes they have their own words & phrases.
The guy testified about how angry his girlfriend was & he said "She was raising sand." Judge Judy asked the bailiff what that means while the audience roared.

Another litigant said, "We conversated about it." Judge Judy said, "Conversate is not a word in the English language."

On another court show - "People's Court," before Judge Milian, Ed Koch was the judge. A young litigant said, "I axed him." The judge said, "Young man, if you want people to respect you & think of you as intelligent, don't say "Axed," say "Asked."
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Peole using axed instead of asked, is just ignorance... I hate that !!

BTW what does '' she was raising sand'' supposedly mean ?..I've never heard it before
 
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