I’m watching one of my infamous court shows. I just saw a black judge ask somebody why she welshed on an agreement.
It’s racist. Just like saying you feel ‘gypped’ or someone ‘jewed’ you down on the price.
There is a lot of anti-Welsh sentiment in Britain. Even if you weren’t aware of it before, now that you are please stop saying that someone who didn’t honor their word ‘Welshed’.
Oh, I am so glad that someone besides me gets upset by that.
I actually just called the producer and complained. Too much time on these arthritic hands.
Wait… it’s welshed? So it has nothing to do with grape juice then? Boy I had that wrong.
Alot of times people just don’t even realize what they’re saying. I pointed it out to my mother once after hearing her use the phrase “jew you down.” She had never even stopped to consider the origins of the phrase or that it had anything to do with jewish folks at all. She doesn’t use it now.
dolphin?
You comin up in here with a secret blog and undercover identity?
Actually , Casey, I think that folks up in Michigan and northern Indiana do SAY ‘welched’. That’s what everyone I know back home says. It wasn’t until I read the phrase in a book that I realized what it actually was and meant.
For what it’s worth, ‘welch’ is just another word for Welsh and in the case of the grape juice people it’s a surname meaning ‘from Wales’ in the same vein as the surnames ‘Scot’ and ‘Eyre’ (from Ireland)
hehe, well, my mom reads my other blog. I’m not sure I’m wanting her to know about the topic of my new one until I know for sure that it’s going somewhere longterm. She’s handling her son having one boyfriend pretty well these days. two might not be as easy for her to deal with though. I figured that I’d eventually comment on another wordpress blog signed in under the wrong name though.
Ooooh, Kat, doesn’t “Eyre” (also?) come from the Anglo-Norman legal term “in eyre” (which comes ultimately from the Latin eo, ire = to go)? Under Henry II, the institution of justices in eyre (judges who traveled around hearing cases, rather than forcing people to show up where the king was for legal matters) was crucial in establishing the Common Law (and in making royal courts cheaper, fairer, and more popular than baronial or ecclesiastical courts). And I thought that Eyre was a surname indicating (a claim of) descent from lawyers and judges on those circuits.
And 1of3, is it wrong of me, as a result of your screen name, to picture you with metal plates here and there?
Okay now I’m intrigued. I didn’t know you were doing a multiple partners thing. I’m curious as to how that’s working. I’ll admit that when I saw the URL for the blog I assumed it was about having multiple CATS.
Well, I am a fool. I just looked it up and apparently the Eyre people have some derivation for the name–something to do with Harriers and Heraldy and other stuff that’s too arcane for me.
I am seriously doubting my IU professor now, because I understood the “Eyre” last name in Jane Eyre to be Irish (“Eire”) from her. She literally (ha! pun!) spent several full classes talking about the book as a pro-Irish treatise and an indictment of anti-Irish prejudice in the British Isles.
Ever since then I’ve just “known” that “Eyre”=Irish. But my knowledge was in error. Can I get that tuition money back?
hehe nm, “resistance is futile”
Kat, hate to have totally derailed your post here, but you did ask so I figure you don’t mind me answering. I can’t really say how it’s going just yet because it’s just starting. We’re all proceeding cautiously at the moment, and I started the new blog to document the whole thing (mainly because the internet is practically void of information on such a thing).
And if it were about having three cats, I’d probably have titled it, “Three IS a crowd.” lol
Paddy Wagon.
Don’t get your irish up.
Put some irish on the ball.
I could go on.
And here I thought Jane Eyre was Jane Eyre because of her many journeys.
I didn’t even know that was a word…I will try my best not to use it in the future.