Can you help re-write The Oxford English Dictionary?

Heh, heh. OK, L.E. I won't ask. Of course they don't do chitlins now. No need. Do you recall pickled pig's feet? Another delicacy was pig's brains and scrambled eggs.

I know that in China, this is the year of the pig, and you Brits know Charles Lamb, right?

Heh, heh. OK, L.E. I won't ask. Of course they don't do chitlins now. No need. Do you recall pickled pig's feet? Another delicacy was pig's brains.........

Hmmm. L.E. and Steve. Here are buffalo wings, and I suppose pork wings are the same things and that would be red hot chicken wings. You know, the part that looks like a miniature drum stick?



Sorry, L.E. Don't know Ruby Murray, but I recognize the cockney rhyming.

Sorry to derail smorgs thread, but I was thinking of my Virginia family today.

Hi everyone!

I hope this is of interest to all A2K'ers and not just the Brit contingency.

The Oxford English dictionary and a respected programme (Balderdash & Piffle) on the BBC are looking for written evidence of the earliest known usage of certain phrases in the English language.

I submitted an written example of 'The Full Monty' to the last appeal, but they managed to find a much earlier text.

Some of the examples may be peculiar to Great Britain, but I'm sure you will all be familiar with most of them.

So let's get cracking - it would be great to see A2K acknowledge by the OED.

Note to Mods: I don't know how to make the link smaller, so sorry for the ugly long one.

http://www.oed.com/bbcwordhunt/


Clarey... this is right up your Street!

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