Posted by davy12342 on June 30, 2009, 9:38 pm
Posted by TOG@Toil on July 1, 2009, 4:21 am
> Campingwww.spammer.com
Sod off.
Posted by Sean_Q_ on July 3, 2009, 9:53 am
Bob Mann wrote:
> When sod huts were being used in the region of Romford (if they ever were),
> English wasn't a language yet.
I don't know exactly when the sodding serfs of Romford were busy
inventing rude phrases for TOG's use, but Old English was spoken during
the Early Middle Ages and it evolved into Middle English by Chaucer's
time in the Later Middle Ages. That's when the Wife of Bath told her
pesky husband to sod off.
SQ
Posted by Turby on July 3, 2009, 10:36 am
>... That's when the Wife of Bath told her
>pesky husband to sod off.
OED, I presume.
--
Turby the Turbosurfer
Posted by Sean_Q_ on July 3, 2009, 11:48 am
Doug Payne wrote:
> OTOH it doesn't seem to mention the Wife of Bath telling the old man to
> get lost.
I didn't mean it all that literally. Actually, she socked him in the
face and knocked him into the fireplace.
SQ
788 And whan I saugh he wolde nevere fyne
And when I saw he would never cease
789 To reden on this cursed book al nyght,
Reading on this cursed book all night,
790 Al sodeynly thre leves have I plyght
All suddenly have I plucked three leaves
791 Out of his book, right as he radde, and eke
Out of his book, right as he read, and also
792 I with my fest so took hym on the cheke
I with my fist so hit him on the cheek
793 That in oure fyr he fil bakward adoun.
That in our fire he fell down backwards.
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/wbt-par.htm
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