[LRflex] Re: Feeling "Chuffed"

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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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA

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Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt




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