Posts by Tom Beard
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See, I like twatcock (rhymes with stopwatch)
Not that I want to return to the pronunciation debate, but I heard it as rhyming with "hatblock" when I wrote it. That may just be because I'm English, but the UK sense of the word "twat" (as a general insult somewhere on the offensiveness scale between "twit" and "wanker', rather than specifically genital in reference) also seemed about right for the context.
But we should defer to Stephen Judd for the pronunciation, since his was the "twat" in question. So to speak.
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Can I change my vote to "ambipudendral"?
On reflection, that should be "ambipudendal": the "r" crept in by analogy to "ambidextrous", but it really doesn't belong in pudenda. So to speak.
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the return-to-feudalism of the Greens
Funny, I don't really get that impression of a party that's pushing for investment in high-quality public transport.
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with even the stories of the early Moriori occupation that our generation was taught in school having almost disappeared
But when, oh when, will she investigate the even more sinisterly politically-correct disappearance of phlogiston and Lamarckian evolution from our curricula?!?!
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Amy Brooke's annual Summer Sounds Symposium
That link should come with a Papyrus warning. Which at least shows they're not "clowns", since clowns would obviously use Comic Sans.
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I shall refrain from commenting on the Coastal Coalition and NZCPR, lest I be accused of blatantly promoting the word "twatcock".
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to JackElder,
Out of interest, how many people are familiar with the slang verb usage of ‘twat’, meaning ‘to hit’? As in, “Get the nail in position, then twat it wiv yer ‘ammer.” To be honest, in day-to-day conversation, that’s how I’d use ’twat’ most of the time.
My most vivid memory of the use of the word "twat" was when a colleague in London said "If I punched [Manager X] in the face, would that mean I'd twatted a twat?"
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to David Hood,
I can also advise on how to pronounce Icelandic volcanoes
Twåtcøck?
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I think that’s true enough, most usages south of the equator I’ve heard have not been insults but actual references to female genitalia.
And it's the former that I intended. I didn't actually mean to say that Paul Henry was the literal combination of male and female pudenda: that would be far too insulting to said organs.
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Most of English is of British origin, but I think at least in NZ and Australia, Twot would be the more common pronunciation. So, are we claiming this word?
It just seems more common as an insult in England, so I associate it with my time there and with British comedy. Also, it's used as a verb there, and I haven't heard that here. There's no definitive pronunciation: that's just how I heard it when I wrote it.