BumPer Stickers?

hoomin_erra · Post by **hoomin_erra** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:12 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Give-Blood-Bowl-d ... dZViewItem

Ithilkir · Post by **Ithilkir** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:26 pm

A 'bumber' sticker?

Personally I'd prefer a bumPer sticker... Aint no stickers going near my bum

hoomin_erra · Post by **hoomin_erra** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:32 pm

Happy now? Bloody pedantic skirt wearing haggis munching sasenach!!!

Ithilkir · Post by **Ithilkir** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:40 pm

You love us really

And it's sassanach... which is the Scots word for an English person (well the polite one).

hoomin_erra · Post by **hoomin_erra** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:47 pm

Don't blame me, blame my dyslexic keyboard!!

Gorbad · Post by **Gorbad** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:51 pm

Ithilkir wrote:You love us really

And it's sassanach... which is the Scots word for an English person (well the polite one).

And here I was thinking it meant Lowland Scotsman... which I still do actually.

hoomin_erra · Post by **hoomin_erra** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:54 pm

Thats Low AND scotsman!!!!

Gorbad · Post by **Gorbad** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:58 pm

Though with some online research.. turns out I am wrong, and Ithilkir just might be a bit more into the right direction....

From Encarta:

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Writers from the Mediterranean world in the 6th and 7th centuries referred to the Anglo-Saxons as Angles. So when the Bishop of Rome sent a letter to Ethelbert of Kent, he addressed him as king of the Angles. By contrast, commentators from the Frankish kingdoms closer to Britain usually referred to them as Saxons. Their Celtic-speaking neighbours also preferred to call them Saxons (Sais, in Welsh, and Sassanach, in Gaelic). In time, the term Angle tended to dominate and it changed to become â€œEnglishâ€

Ithilkir · Post by **Ithilkir** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:07 pm

From the Scots dictionary

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 SASSENACH, adj., n. Also Sassanoch, -enagh, Sasennach, -unnach; the form in the 1706 quot. represents the Gael.pl. Sasunnaich. English, English-speaking, formerly also applied to the Lowlanders of Scotland; as a n., an Englishman or -woman. The word was orig. put in the mouths only of Highlanders but is now in somewhat jocular use throughout Scotland. [ËˆsÉ‘sÉ™nÉ™x]
    *Sc. 1706 Letters from E.C. to E.W. Concerning the Union 6:
    We call them Sassanich, in Latin Saxi or Saxoni.
    *Sc. 1737 J. Drummond Memoirs Locheill (1842) 113:
    The English (or â€œSassanochâ€

Gorbad · Post by **Gorbad** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:24 pm

Ithilkir wrote:From the Scots dictionary

[SNIP 8< Dictionary entry]

So we're both right

Great link! (well had to google it first...)

PS.. Funny thing:

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GOOGLE, v. To deceive (Slg. 1916 T.S.D.C. II.), to hoodwink. [gu:gl]
    *Gall. 1901 Trotter Gall. Gossip 195:
    He ey made an awfu fuss ower young widdas, . . . an gat mony a dram an mony a drink oâ€™ milk wi the googlin tongue an face oâ€™ him.
    *Abd. 1922 Swatches oâ€™ Hamespun 66:
    â€œGey beinâ€™ bonnie anâ€™ weel likit,â€

Ithilkir · Post by **Ithilkir** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:44 pm

Hehe aye, always brought a chuckle when Google first started getting popular and I knew the Scots for Google