OneGuyFromBarlick

What's left of English after Brexit?

Depends where you are facing.......
Lish..... I found this, somehow I don't think they are into dialect....
"Lish is also a good rescue tool. The console provides out-of-band access to your Linode, which means you can use Lish to access your Linode even when you are unable to connect directly via SSH. This is useful if firewall settings or a bad network configuration prevent you from accessing your Linode using SSH."

I've never heard of it, but seems to be English and means nimble or lithe.
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Now here's a gem from NASA. Intended or not?

": A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.

PS - presumably formed by the same process as the rocks at Ilkley?

Am I missing something? It's normal to describe icebergs as calving from an ice shelf or a glacier and this meaning is in the Collins dictionary. I know in the original usage it would be incorrect to say a baby cow calved from its mother because it's the mother that does the calving. But in the case of icebergs it's usually the berg that's said to calve.

Tizer wrote: ↑23 Oct 2018, 14:54 Am I missing something?

Obviously not - it's me that's wrong - I'm not big into icebergs and I've never known that they give birth to little icebergs - I just thought it was a mistake and they had meant carved.
We live and learn

Acting in my role as resident pedant.... Whilst bergs can break into smaller lumps, the calving is when they leave the ice shelf or glacier.

Here's an alternative take on the Iceberg

I didn't know it until I looked it up that there is a standard definition for icebergs plus bergy bits and growlers. icebergs

Why do clouds 'scud' across the face of the moon? Where did that one come from.

One suggestion is that it's from a Dutch word meaning the same as we use scud. Another that it's from a rabbit's scut (tail).

Here's more information about the word Scud than any human being needs to know.

Scud

Bet no one knew it meant Irn Bru in Glasgow.

From Tripp's link....Etymology Perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to throw, to shoot”).

During the cold war the Russian missile was called the Scud. Scud.

Amazing.......

Amphiboly or Amphibology, If you think some of my posts are misleading please have a word with me.

Later.... I've just used a word that some might not know. 'Podger bar', a tapered drift used to line holes up. Many would call it a 'drift' but to me that's slightly different. Podger bars are always long enough to act as a lever and not be simply driven in.

Every home should have one.

plaques wrote: ↑26 Oct 2018, 11:40 Amphiboly or Amphibology, If you think some of my posts are misleading please have a word with me.

The following comes from this American web site: LINK
Amphiboly often leads to humorous misunderstandings and confusions. Newspaper headlines are one common source of amphiboly. Here are a few examples: 'Prostitutes Appeal to Pope' -- 'Farmer Bill Dies in House' -- 'Dr. Ruth to Talk About Sex With Newspaper Editors' -- 'Burglar Gets Nine Months in Violin Case' -- 'Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant' -- 'Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge' -- 'Marijuana Issues Sent to a Joint Committee' -- 'Two Convicts Evade Noose: Jury Hung.'

"President Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while travelling on the back of an envelope"

I was a little drowsy, but I swear I heard an American professor use the word 'visibilise' on the wireless early this morning. I made no comment when Uncle Bob used 'memorialise' recently, but I think that's a probably step too far. Of course the spell checker says I should use a z (that'll be zee rather than zed), instead of an s, but I refuse.

Same here David.....

Heard the saying 'milling about', to me it means standing around, seemingly doing not much.
Can only find - 'Grist to the mill', grinding oats etc.

That's a good one Cathy, we use words without thought. I shall have a furtle...
I fond this Cathy.... ""to keep moving round and round in a mass," 1874 (implied in milling), originally of cattle, from mill (n.1) on resemblance to the action of a mill wheel. Related: Milled." So you are right, it's because of the movement of grain when it is milled. I always associate it most with purposeless movement rather than organised activity.

Here's what the word means to me. Mercifully I only did it once - and to my amazement - I won. My opponent was even less inclined to participate than I was.

Milling

Good grief, do we really still allow that sort of thing to go on in our military training? It belongs in medieval times, not the 21st Century, even if they are provided with head-guards, gumshields and 18oz boxing gloves.

I agree, it's a medieval mind set and I note that women will be paired with men. I am appalled, if this is the attitude in training young people is it any wonder that things like the tragedies at Deepcut occur?
The only time anything vaguely approaching this level of violence happened to me was in my first year at a very old-fashioned grammar school that acted on 'public school' lines. It was deeply shocking to me to be forced to be violent towards another human being and I have never forgotten it. In later years on the tramp and in the army I mixed with a wide variety of characters, some of them quite frightening but I never encountered anything like Milling!
Funny thing is that despite the lack of this 'flagship moment in training' I came out of National Service as a full corporal (vanishingly rare) and was accounted a 'good soldier'.