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Thread #47513   Message #710722
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
14-May-02 - 01:37 AM
Thread Name: folklore: Phrase:'If I Had My D'ruthers'...origin?
Subject: RE: BS: Phrase:'If I Had My D'ruthers'...origin?
G'Day and thanks, Bob. $9 US or thereabouts ain't bad.
More thread creep- do you have the word "bumpf" or "bumf" there? I first heard it about 1960 when I was on an extended trip with a Canadian with British parents and a New Zealander. They applied it to a sheaf of government regulations. I had never heard it (from the US). I couldn't find it in the Oxford; they added it in the 1987 supplement with a history going back to the 19th C. It's a useful word for government papers full of gobbledegook. Still not in Webster's.
Genie, I have spent a lot of time in Texas (UT) and never heard sweet tea or sweet milk (Guest's list). We did drink gallons of properly made iced tea, well-sugared.