[HPforGrownups] Re: Wordplay in HP

[Cait Hunter]

No: HPFGUIDX 18746

>From: rcraigharman at hotmail.com
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Wordplay in HP
>Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:27:57 -0000
>
>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> >
> > *sigh*
> >
> > Well, I just added it to Strictly British. And I don't think I'll
> > take it back off, since "tripe" was already on there, so it fits
> > naturally. But I, solidly Midwestern American that I am, have never
> > heard of the word "tripe" used that way. That dictionary might very
> > well be including a meaning more commonly used in Britain. It's
> > not a specifically American dictionary, despite the title.
>
>No, Briticisms are marked as "Chiefly British" in the dictionary,
>and this is not the case for "tripe".  Moreover, Merriam-Webster
>Online concurs.  They mark Briticisms with "British" or "Chiefly
>British"--the former is used for "kerb", the latter is used for
>"lift" meaning elevator.  "Tripe" is not marked as such.
>
>Rest assured, on the East Coast, we are familiar with tripe in both
>its meanings.  It is most definitely not British only and doesn't
>belong in the Strictly British section.

I'd also add that I've not only heard it used (fairly frequently, I had a 
creative writing teacher who refered to my fantasy writing as tripe, I hated 
it at the time, but looking back he was quite right!) as a negative 
descriptor of junk, but I've EATEN it and my grandma threatens to make it 
every once in a while, along with boiled okra- apparently my dad's two least 
favorite foods. She's lived in central Texas her whole life. (Falls County 
now (near Waco) and she grew up in Rosebud, TX...)


Cait and corgis, who met a famous relative corgi yesterday.

>
>....Craig
>

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