[LRflex] Re: Feeling "Chuffed"

That's wonderful. I can even improve my English, here! Great!
I hope to give support for Italian language as well. :-)
Flavio


On 29/03/07, Philippe Amard <phamard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks David,
> I knew you would never let down a Leicafriend in need (he winks).
> I have heaps of dictionaries but my pronouncing dictonaries (Daniel
> Jones's 12th, 17th, and the  last editions on CD-rom only give "chuff"
> and chuffs", hence my question.
> I had hoped it would be chuffed as in religious blessed - sounded more
> like it in terms of dialect, and if not gothic or mediaval, at least
> Shakespearian, but I'll take it as the Romans would.
>
> It is for me such a pleasure for me to be on this list of learned (as in
> David this time -wink) people..
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Philippe
>
>
> David Young wrote:
>
> >At 29/03/2007, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Dear M. David Chuffed Young,
> >>
> >>Alice and I share your elation and are pleased of such an opportunity to
> >>congratulate you on this highly deserved success :-) .
> >>In short, well done David!
> >>
> >>BTW: As a non-native speaker of English, I'm curious to know if this
> >>dialectal "chuffed" is pronounced as a rhyme for "David" or for "craft"
> >>. Unfortunately none of my pronouncing dictionaries provided me with a
> >>clue...
> >>
> >>Thanks in anticipation.
> >>Phil...x
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi Philippe!
> >
> >Thanks to you, and Alice, for your congratulations.
> >
> >Chuffed, is pronounced with the "Ch" as in "Chew", and the "uffed",
> >pronounced as in "Fluffed", or "Puffed".
> >
> >It's a word from the olde English, and is only found in rather large
> >dictionaries.  I have 3 dictionaries, and the smallest does not list
> >the word.  The middle sized one, in two volumes, lists the "main"
> >meaning.... "a coarse, churlish fellow".  Only my large, unabridged.
> >2055 page, 8 kilo, dictionary lists the British Dialect meaning...
> >(Proud, Elated, Swollen with pride) which was, until I looked, the
> >only one I knew!
> >
> >Your chuffed friend (in both senses of the word),
> >
> >David.
> >
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> >
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