[HPFGU-OTChatter] "Your Holeyness"

[Julie Borgmann]

Which part of the bike are you speaking of?  The only mechanical lug I think of are lug nuts which are the nuts that hold a motor vehicles wheels on.  I'm assuming you mean the sprocket of the bicycle the gear like item that the chain is attached to!
   
  Amazing how its all "English" yet we still need translations!  Then again here in the US we need translations from coast to coast and north the south!  

"P. Alexis Nguyen" <alexisnguyen at gmail.com> wrote:
          zanooda:
> I noticed that in chapter 8 ("The Wedding")Fred teases George
> differently in American and British editions. In Am.ed. it's "Your
> Holeyness", but in Br.ed. it's "Lugless". I'm not a native English
> speaker, and I was wondering why would Scholastic editors change this.
> Does "lugless" mean simply "earless" or is it something more? Thanks!

Lug is British slang for ear. See here: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/l.htm

By the way, for those who actually is in the UK, what would you call a
[mechanical] lug, then? Or do you not use a different term for that
bicycle part?

~Ali


         


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