Peevs woz ere!

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 103451

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wrote:

Adi:
> Hi,
>   Well, I looked at the door too and there were some things that 
> caught my eye. There is this writing in the mirror, saying 'peeves 
> woz ere!' and there is a half-crescent moon visible through the 
> window.
>   Note it doesn't say that Peeves was here but Peeves was ere. 
Well, 
> what can it mean? Any theories?


Geoff:
As one or two posters have commented, it's Cockney. It used to be 
quite the thing to write "Kilroy woz 'ere" or "Kilroy wos 'ere". It 
rather like my elder son who often jokingly says that he speaks with 
a "Sarf Lunnon" (South London) accent. Now, the mantle has shifted to 
Peeves. It is just the phonetic spelling of the way in which it is 
said.