[lit-ideas] Re: Is this word really necessary?
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:18:47 -0700
On Aug 31, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Donal McEvoy wrote:
Confessing I don't think I understand this post, perhaps because I'm
over the border,
"Dreich" is a descriptive of miserable weather that goes on a long
time. The Scots have a lot of this, but my point was, so do other
people. The word needs to be dropped into the mouths of jolly weather
persons. "Good morning, personally I'm chipper, but I'm afraid your
weather news today is that it'll be dreich, so go get your pleasure
from some other fine source, a comedy record perhaps?"
If you heard in your head, as I did, Billy Connolly doing the voice--
he once performed a piece on "weatherpersons"--you'll be pleased to
know that you can now download Connolly's voice onto your GPS device,
"Make a U-turn. None of this would have been necessary had you been
listening a moment ago."
Looking for a YouTube ref to the weather skit (I found sound but no
video) I ran across one of his lines: "Bonnie Prince Charlie, the only
person to have been named after three sheepdogs."
If that doesn't make you smile, your weather must be as dreich as here.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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