Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian


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Unusual place names in USA3. – Celeryville

CELERYVILLE,  Huron County, Ohio

Settled by Dutch folk

named for the celery farms

around the town site.


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Obscure words explained 89. – force majeure

FORCE MAJEURE

Disruptive event

Happens unexpectedly

A  legalese term


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Obscure words explained 88. – chyron

CHYRON

A text based graphic

Like the crawl of a newscast

on televion


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Unusual place names in USA 2 – Lac qui Parle

LAC QUI PARLE, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

French priest translated

Dakota name, lake that Speaks

Into his own tongue

Note: Dakota is a native American nation consisting primarily of Sioux living in South Western Minnesota. the tribal elders took guidance from the voices they heard from the lake.

A late edit: I should have explained that the voices heard were created by the wind across the lake which is situated in a unique geologic formation. And for sports people it’s also considered the best walleye-pike fishing lake in Minnesota.

 


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Obscure words explained 87. – perigree

PERIGREE

Point in the orbit

of a heavenly body

which is nearest earth


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Obscure words explained 86. – jabberwocky

JABBERWOCKY

Some writing or speech

containing meaningless words

Trump is it’s master


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A bit of Americal – Unusual place names in Ohio1. – Knockemstiff

Change of gears. Who remembers Alistair Cook’s “Letter from America” well here’ s Bristolians version in A bit of Americal. I have started with a previous theme of unusual place names. We have plenty of these in the USA.

KNOCKEMSTIFF,  Ross county, Ohio

Slang term for Moonshine

illegal liquor from maize

distilled in secret


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Obscure words explained 85. – assiduity

ASSIDUITY

Workers in the hive

apply a constant effort

when making honey


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Krek waiters peak bristle

Another departure:  Some (many) years ago  a book was written, I’ll find the author’ s name one of these days. which spoke about the way people from Bristol speak.

One of the curiosities of the Bristol dialect is the propensity of Bristolians to add an “l” to a final “a” in place of a glottal stop. This curious fact has led me to this post in light of the pandemic now about us;  Has anybody from Bristol  heard the word Coronavirus pronounced “coronalvirus?

Note: The title of this post is the aforementioned title of the book. It translates as, The correct way to speak  Bristol.