Thread: Hey bob10

Originally Posted by Hogarthde

So that then leads me to think the Great Australian Bight was named as such because the cartographer saw the similarity to the bight in a rope .

dave

I may be able to help with that. From the " Oxford companion to ships and the sea"

Bight 1 . The name by which a loop of a rope is known when it is folded or any part of a rope between its two ends when it lies, or hangs, in a curve or loop.

Bight 2. The area of sea lying between two promontories, being in general wider than a gulf and larger than a bay is also known as a bight.

Which brings us as to who named it.

The Great Australian Bight was first encountered by European explorers in 1627 when a Dutch navigator François Thijssen sailed along its western margins. The coast was later first accurately charted by the English navigator Matthew Flinders in 1802, during his circumnavigation of the Australian continent.

I just asked my Adelaide educated little woman “what is a sarny? “

She doesn’t know, so that makes two of us ...Des old bean.

Originally Posted by Hogarthde

I just asked my Adelaide educated little woman “what is a sarny? “

She doesn’t know, so that makes two of us ...Des old bean.

Shirley you must have heard the word on UK tv Progs?


Soz, I did spell it incorrectly me old china.

SARNIE slang [Probably from sarn-, representing colloquial or (northern dialect) pronunciation of initial element of sandwich. ... A bacon sarnie is a bacon sandwich that's a guilty pleasure throughout the British Isles. Some people call it a sarnie, some call it a butty.Feb 11, 2020

BTW Soz is a North UK word for Sorry.


China is Cockney rhyming slang for China Plate Mate. Then again it is abbreviated to China. Everyone knows what a China is, don't they?


Who said I was never brunged up properlike? AULRO the Learning Forum.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Shirley you must have heard the word on UK tv Progs?


Soz, I did spell it incorrectly me old china.




BTW Soz is a North UK word for Sorry.


China is Cockney rhyming slang for China Plate Mate.


Who said I was never brunged up properlike? AULRO the Learning Forum.

More English than the English , What about a chip butty?

Chip butty. A chip butty is a sandwich made with chips (i.e., French fried potatoes) on buttered white bread or a bread roll, often with an added condiment, such as brown sauce, mayonnaise, or malt vinegar. The chip butty can be found in fish and chip shops and other casual dining establishments in the United Kingdom.

Originally Posted by Hogarthde

I just asked my Adelaide educated little woman “what is a sarny? “



She doesn’t know, so that makes two of us ...Des old bean.

I have a mate who is English but bought up in Northern Ireland because his dad was posted there with the Brit. SAS. He uses Sarny all the time, don't know if it is English, Irish, or he's just pullin' his pud.

Sarnie is very English, meaning sandwich. What has me scratching my head is, why is it a bacon sarnie, chip butty or vegimite sanger?

Originally Posted by bob10

I have a mate who is English but bought up in Northern Ireland because his dad was posted there with the Brit. SAS. He uses Sarny all the time, don't know if it is English, Irish, or he's just pullin' his pud.

A Pud Sarnie? That'd be different.