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. > > > >--- > > > >David Young, > >Logan Lake, CANADA > > > >Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ > >Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt > > > > > > > > > >------ > >Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > >Archives are at: > > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > > > > > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > -- FLAVIO GORI http://www.LoScrittoio.it Edizioni in Rete http://flaviogori.googlepages.com/home ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/