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Just found a transitive verb I'd never heard before ... "thole" ... though I gather some from Up North might be familiar with it. I had a vague notion of its noun form ... an oar-pivot pin ... but not as a verb.

It's in a book by an Australian poetess that I'm reviewing for a future Australian Poetry Project ... I always read them cover-to-cover first before launch ... and I must admit, it stumped me.

Here is the definition: Verb ( transitive) 1. to put up with; bear. 2. an archaic word for suffer.

"Do you think that you could thole it, Australian born and free,
Where the call of many rivers finds an echo in the sea?
Do you think that you could bear to feel the chain that girds you round?
'Midst the chitter of the bell-birds in your happy hunting ground..."



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SonOfTheExiles wrote: February 24th, 2021, 7:23 pm Just found a transitive verb I'd never heard before ... "thole" ... though I gather some from Up North might be familiar with it. I had a vague notion of its noun form ... an oar-pivot pin ... but not as a verb.

It's in a book by an Australian poetess that I'm reviewing for a future Australian Poetry Project ... I always read them cover-to-cover first before launch ... and I must admit, it stumped me.

Here is the definition: Verb ( transitive) 1. to put up with; bear. 2. an archaic word for suffer.


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Chris
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As an emigrant from "up North" I immediately thought of that well-known phrase ," put wood in 'thole"..ie Shut the door"! 😃 Anne
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I majored in Linguistics for crying out loud, and this morning I just learned of the word prolixity.
Imagine my chagrin. :chagrin emoji:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/prolix
etymologically "poured out," from pro "forth" (see pro-) + base of liquere "to flow" (see liquid (adj.)).

Of persons, "long-winded, prone to indulge in lengthy discourse," 1520s.
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I just ran across the word aposiopesis in Sam In The Suburbs by P. G. Wodehouse. It seems like a word that may be useful to know someday, but it was a bit daunting to pronounce and took a few tries.
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I have one. From reading The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car by Laura Lee Hope.

tonneau

It's the open tray, or passenger seat [less common] part of a car or truck. There's also a tonneau cover that covers the tray to keep weather or wind off. I hadn't heard of this word. It's not used a lot these days. I asked people in my family. My folks had an open MG sports car in the 60's and they used a tonneau cover over the front passenger seat to keep wind turbulence off.

I chose to say it like a Parisian French person a bit like "toonoo". My lack of IPA knowledge shows. Slaps self.
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lightcrystal wrote: November 25th, 2021, 10:19 am I have one. From reading The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car by Laura Lee Hope.

tonneau

It's the open tray, or passenger seat [less common] part of a car or truck. There's also a tonneau cover that covers the tray to keep weather or wind off. I hadn't heard of this word. It's not used a lot these days. I asked people in my family. My folks had an open MG sports car in the 60's and they used a tonneau cover over the front passenger seat to keep wind turbulence off.

I chose to say it like a Parisian French person a bit like "toonoo". My lack of IPA knowledge shows. Slaps self.
I've heard this (the cover, anyway) as being the cover on pickup truck beds. :)
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TriciaG wrote: November 25th, 2021, 10:41 am

I've heard this (the cover, anyway) as being the cover on pickup truck beds. :)
That's what I hear it used for nowadays too. It seems to refer (if I am not mistaken) to the soft covers that are made of some kind of fake leather-like material and sort of fold up toward the cab when a larger object is to be carried in the bed. I'm not sure if it is also used for the hard flat covers that come up at the tailgate end, but I think not.
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Susquehanna.
It's a huge river with a name to match.
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I grew up near Susquehanna Township, so it was one I learned to pronounce (and spell!) very early on. Those Algonquin names in Pennsylvania can be challenging -- my cousins lived near Conshohocken and Manayunk. I also had no idea how unmusical they sound until a boyfriend, who grew up in California with all the flowing Spanish town names, would literally make a face when I said such names.

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I had certainly heard the word "insensible" before, but had no idea how much it was used in descriptions in 19th and early 20th century fiction and non-fiction. Maybe it's that I'm more aware of it now, but I'd swear I hear it at least once in almost every book I listen to! I was most familiar with the connotation of unconsciousness, as in the hero is knocked insensible when discovered by the henchman, but authors back then LOVED to use it in the sense of someone being unaware of some fact or not perceiving some underlying vibe in the room.

I also always thought the absolute ban on adverbs, as famously cited by Stephen King, was overblown. I like a good adverb to enhance description, especially when describing ways that people look or say something. But I can see where it came from because DAY-UMMM fiction authors from the turn of the century love them some adverbs, and really pointless ones. Like, "'Hows the weather?' he asked, interrogatively." pointless. Maybe because I became aware of current writing "rules" during the age of adverb hatred that they leap out at me every time, but I can see what led to the next generations of writers deciding that no adverbs are preferable to drowning in them. Or "drowning flounderingly" I should say.
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ColleenMc wrote: December 12th, 2021, 11:48 am ...but authors back then LOVED to use it...
...and really pointless ones.
...what led to the next generations of writers...
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Haver. (pronounced "hay-ver")
No, it's not the Scottish "haver" that means "foolish talk" (nor the Scottish "to haver," meaning to talk foolishly).
It's the Scottish "haver" that means "oat" -- as in, a field of havers.
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"gyve/ gyves" same pronunciation but not a fast dance ...."handcuffs" ....why do authors use such archaic words? Up with it I cannot thole!😁 Anne F
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"Gormandizing".
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