Today's Englist lesson. Okay class, conjugate the verb "twit".
Twit, Twat, Twot Twitten, Twatten, Twotten, I am a twit, You are a twat,
They
are all Twots.
Class dismissed
Joe Curry (without tenure...or anything else)
GuyotLeonF wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998
> RICHARD.JACKSON@NENE.AC.UK wrote:
> Subject: Re: Web page of various Spitfire carbs
>
> >> >Did you misspell "twit"???? Or did you mean to say "twat"?
> >>
> >> Nope, I mean't to say twat, although I have an idea it means something
> >> different over there!!! Ooops, did I offend anyone?
> >>
> >> Rich
>
> > Rich,
> >Over here it loosely referrs to the female Sex Organ. What does it Mean over
> there.
> >I never heard that term in the 19 months I was in England in the early '70s.
> Speaking
> >of "twat", I just saw a commercial for weight reduction, featuring Sarah
> Ferguson.
>
> Hmmm, well basically how I use it is to refer to someone as an idiot or being
> stupid, as in what a twat, or what a twatty thing to do, etc etc. :-)
>
> In the 28 years I've lived here, I've heard and used it on quite a few
> occassions, usually to describe concourse competitors!!!! :-) ;-) Now I'm in
> trouble.
>
> Hi Rich,Firstly I'm a 'little' surprised to read of your apparent concern
> about offending someone? It's never stopped you before :-)
> Secondly,I expect some of our concours (note spelling) entrants,might possibly
> think the same of you?
> (Although,even I agree that some of them occassionally earn the description
> you used,but we have room for all types in our Triumph clubs? Don't we?)
> Lastly,I've checked my lexicon,(sic),and it states that "twat" has more than
> one meaning! ie: twat/twot is a noun meaning
> 1.The female genitals,
> 2.(British for),an unpleasant or despicable person,in vulgar useage,origin
> unknown.
> (well I never knew that either!)
> OTOH: "twit" as a (British) noun meaning: an absurd or silly person [probably
> an alternative of "twat".
> There you go!
> At my place of (just) gainful employment,the guys on my section have taken to
> calling our boss "fopdoodle" a quaint 17th Century word,now fallen into
> disuse, meaning "man of little consequence" c/w "doodle" meaning
> simpleton,from the Low German word "dudeltopf" He never did find out what we
> were talking about! :-)
> Leon
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