Who knew?

[Yenn]

I only knew one, No 5. Now I know what a tittle is, but I still don't know a tattle, which normally goes with it.

[facthunter]

 A titter ran through the crowd. Nev

[red750]

6 minutes ago, Yenn said:

but I still don't know a tattle, which normally goes with it.

Is that the ring they put through it?

[old man emu]

59 minutes ago, facthunter said:

 A titter ran through the crowd. Nev

[old man emu]

"tittle": a tiny amount or part of something.

"tattle": gossip; idle talk

 

Tittle tattle: a little bit of gossip.

[facthunter]

I'd call that more of a shakedown.. The original refers to something like light suppressed laughter. It's English derived. relevant  to about 100 years ago.  Nev

[Marty_d]

I thought number 13 is when someone walks in on you when you're having sex.

[facthunter]

Put Vasoline on the doorknob.. Nev

[Marty_d]

You can call it what you want, Nev.  I must be a lesser man.

[pmccarthy]

Last week we stayed at a caravan park in Tossell Street, Moonta. My wife wondered why I was laughing.

[Yenn]

There used to be an English magazine covering society gossip called the Tattler and By stander, I suppose that was Tattle.

[onetrack]

Unfortunately, Tossell is a common surname. But it could be worse, Tosser is also a surname - but I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of people had changed their surname from Tosser, to something else. Just like a number of people I know who have changed their name from Handcock to something else. One Handcock I knew insisted his name was pronounced "Hand-Co".

 

https://forebears.io/surnames/tossell

 

https://forebears.io/surnames/tosser

[pmccarthy]

Cockburn is pronounced coburn.

[facthunter]

Less Painful?  Nev

[old man emu]

Who's Les Payne?

[Marty_d]

I think he's related to Justin Case and Sue Ridge.

[onetrack]

There used to be a local nursery/garden centre called Teresa Green.

[red750]

The English word "helicopter" comes from the French word "hélicoptère" which was a combination of the Greek "helix" meaning "a spiral, whirl, convolution" & "pteron" meaning "wing".

[facthunter]

Helicopters are referred to as "Rotary Wing". with control by cyclic and collective pitch, and with an anti torque tail rotor. with controllable direction of thrust. (L-R). Nev.

[Yenn]

What about NOTAR or twin helicopters? Are they not helicopters?

[facthunter]

f course but I'm trying to keep it simple and related to rotary WING.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

And parasol is French for guard against the sun. They also have paraplui for guard against the rain, which is a waterproof parasol we call an umbrella. Umbra was Latin for shade. Isn't language wonderful.

[willedoo]

4 hours ago, red750 said:

The English word "helicopter" comes from the French word "hélicoptère" which was a combination of the Greek "helix" meaning "a spiral, whirl, convolution" & "pteron" meaning "wing".

I wonder why so many languages adopted Froggie words and didn't come up with their own words. Even the Ukrainians use helicopter; they pronounce it helicopter like we do, but spell it gelicopter as they don't have a letter H. They also use vertolet which is the same as the Russian word for helicopter. The vert part is self explanatory, and the let part means fly, flight, flying etc..

[facthunter]

Vol is flight in french. French is latin based as is italian and spanish but the pronunciation of french is hard to get right.. Poms who migrate there reckon it takes about 2 years to be reasonable in the language, but the accent varies across the country. I could never pick the difference, myself and I spent most of my time in Toulouse. If I went through Paris the Hotel people reckoned I had a "southern" accent.   Nev

[pmccarthy]

Two years to loose the accent and a lifetime Toulouse Lautrec.