That’s interesting

puzzles THAT’S INTERESTING...

Each month ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD, former researcher from ‘QI’ and author of The Meaning of Tingo, poses a vocabulary quiz from our local Wiltshire dialect.

CAN YOU GUESS THE CORRECT DEFINITION?

1. LAVE a) the swamp surface of a wet ploughed field b) the second swarm of bees in the same season c) of a candle, to gutter down

2. RINNICK a) a tree bare of leaves or twigs b) the smallest and worst pig of a litter c) a turnstile

3. ROWETTY a) unsettled weather b) of grass, rough and coarse c) a tree bare of leaves or twigs

4. PETH a) a breadcrumb b) a small cavity in a rock c) the number five in shepherds’ counting

TWITTERING Mobile phones have thrown up some interesting usages. In the first wave of the language of texting came the shortened versions of much-used phrases: AFAIK - As far as I know

T+ - Think positive BCNU - Be seeing you DUR - Do you remember CID - Consider it done KIT - Keep in touch

When people switched to predictive text, they discovered the phenomenon of the phone’s software coming up with the wrong word; most famously ‘book’ for ‘cool’ (so teenagers started describing their hipper friends as ‘book’). Other textonyms with some service providers include:

Lips for kiss Shag for rich Poisoned for Smirnoff “Do you want to in out some time?” for “Do you want to go out some time”? ANSWERS 1C, 2B, 3B, 4A

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