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| Susan Hogarth |
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| Is it like 'books', or like 'ooze'? |
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| Susan Hogarth |
| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:48 pm |
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| Jill |
| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:25 pm |
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Susan Hogarth wrote:
Quote: Is it like 'books', or like 'ooze'?
The former
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Jill Bowis
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| Mary Fisher |
| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:26 pm |
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"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1167496725.062874.150160@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Quote: Is it like 'books', or like 'ooze'?
It's 'chickens'.
Mary
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| a_l_p |
| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:03 pm |
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Susan Hogarth wrote:
Quote: Is it like 'books', or like 'ooze'?
It's pronounced the way THEY say it - rhymes with book. In fact broody hens
often say the staccato Book!Book!Book! and then there's that contented drawl
which is more like Cha-a-awk...chaaawk...chalk.
Puh PAHk pukpukpuk!!! is any panic (including "a plastic bag just blew past our
wire netting!" That's in the New Zealand dialect of course :)
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| Farm1 |
| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:52 pm |
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"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
Quote: "Susan Hogarth" <hogarth@gmail.com> wrote in message
Is it like 'books', or like 'ooze'?
It's 'chickens'.
Wash your mouth out Mary! Chickens are wee small balls of yellow
fluff. Chooks are big feathered things. |
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| Farm1 |
| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:08 pm |
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"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth@gmail.com> wrote in message
As Jill says, "chook" rhymes with book, look, took etc.
And having looked up the cite you gave, I notice that it says that it
may have a connection with an old British word "chuck". The cite then
goes on to mention the use of "Chuck" as a name. I've only ever heard
of "Chuck" being used as a ame in the US so it must be a US site.
Anyway, I thought you might be amused by another Australian word
usage. Chuck is a word for vomiting in Australia as in "I was so sick
that I did a big chuck". |
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| Catherine Jemma |
| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:21 pm |
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Does anyone know for sure, is the "chook" word commonly used only within
Australia and New Zealand ?
Ah, Australia-and-New Zealand, 2 of the few countries where we'll happily
ride alongside the driver, in the front passenger seat of a taxi........so
I've heard it said
Mmm, a bit too hot here today, does anybody out there want me to email you a
few extra degrees ? But you'll have to be able to accept Celcius degrees at
your place. I guess that means I could email some to Canada but NOT the
United States of behind-the-times-es ! ;-)
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| Jill |
| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:39 am |
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Catherine Jemma wrote:
Quote: Does anyone know for sure, is the "chook" word commonly used only
within Australia and New Zealand ?
We use it here in the UK too
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Ah, Australia-and-New Zealand, 2 of the few countries where we'll
happily ride alongside the driver, in the front passenger seat of a
taxi........so I've heard it said
Mmm, a bit too hot here today, does anybody out there want me to
email you a few extra degrees ?
Yes please
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Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk |
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