tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post2266975864133462402..comments2024-01-12T00:24:35.544+01:00Comments on St Bloggie de Riviere: Trouble at t'millSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-75379511555104573142007-07-07T18:39:00.000+02:002007-07-07T18:39:00.000+02:00Ah, but you don't know, expat, from whence said l...Ah, but you don't know, expat, from whence said literary lady came in her 19th century first-generation Chelsea tractor. <BR/><BR/>Maybe she had the <I>de luxe </I>version whose coal bunker allowed her to commute between Chelsea and north of Potters Bar. <BR/><BR/>Maybe she acquired, or more likely affected, an out-of-London vernacular to signal she was a true daughter of the soil. <BR/><BR/>In that sense she was a prototype for Tony Blair, estuary-English glottal stops an' all.<BR/><BR/> There, you've got me doing it now.sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-50672238154596410412007-07-07T17:14:00.000+02:002007-07-07T17:14:00.000+02:00Mrs. Gaskell was born in Chelsea so it certainly d...Mrs. Gaskell was born in Chelsea so it certainly didn't come naturally to her...expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-11388320821894252052007-07-07T11:46:00.000+02:002007-07-07T11:46:00.000+02:00Funny. I'd always imagined "at t'mill " was an acq...Funny. I'd always imagined "at t'mill " was an acquired speech disorder, one that starts just north of Potters Bar, and gets progressively worse as you head up the A1/M1/M6. <BR/><BR/>PS: only 1 Scot (so far) was injured in the making of this comment.sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-52348999138816921882007-07-07T00:49:00.000+02:002007-07-07T00:49:00.000+02:00By way of illustrating that Google and wikipedia b...By way of illustrating that Google and wikipedia between them can find anything, I can report that the original quote "Tha's trouble oop at t'mill" comes from Elizabeth Gaskell's 1854 novel <I>North and South</I>, a kind of exposé of the misery of life in the industrial north, originally serialised in the magazine <I>Household Words</I>. Bet you didn't know that, I sure didn't although I've used it as a cliché of social drama many times myself.expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.com