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[avva]

Незнакомое английское слово - druthers. Услышал сегодня в аудио-лекции Роберта Гринберга о музыке 18 века, в форме "If I had my druthers...". Сначала вообще не понял, о чем речь -- из контекста ясен смысл, но слово совершенно незнакомое, и вместе с тем вроде бы вполне отчетливо произнесено. Через пол-минуты дошло - это игра слов на "I'd rather". Мило!

The phrase originated in the late 19th century, говорит нам электрическая сеть интернет - а я подумал было сразу, что это недавний каламбур. Мое чувство языка меня в данном случае откровенно подвело.

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[zhenyach.livejournal.com]

Когда у меня появится Round Tuit...

[avva.livejournal.com]

Это я знаю, да :)

[tacente.livejournal.com]

А я не знаю, что это?

[zhenyach.livejournal.com]

Round tuit. Пример применения: "I just needed a Round Tuit to get started, and I got one…"

[tacente.livejournal.com]

Понятно, спасибо.

[ygam.livejournal.com]

У Марка Твена это слово встречается в романе Tom Sawyer, Detective.

[lestp.livejournal.com]

а у группы Primus в песне DMV

Чарльз Дарвин, "Путешествие на фрегате 'Бигль'"

[ygam.livejournal.com]

My host, the superintendent of the mine, was a shrewd but rather ignorant Cornish miner. He had married a Spanish woman, and did not mean to return home; but his admiration for the mines of Cornwall remained unbounded. Amongst many other questions, he asked me, “Now that George Rex is dead, how many more of the family of Rexes are yet alive?” This Rex certainly must be a relation of the great author Finis, who wrote all books!

из той же серии

[itman.livejournal.com]

ifs and buts, не путать последнее с butt :-)

[(Anonymous)]

абиссиния

[l-hat.livejournal.com]

It's a great word, isn't it? Here's the OED entry:

druther

U.S. dialectal alteration of (I, you, etc.) would rather. Hence druther(s), ruther(s), a choice, preference.
1876 [see DERN a.]. 1895 Dialect Notes I. 388 Bein's I caint have my druthers an' set still, I cal'late I'd better pearten up an' go 'long. 1896 ‘MARK TWAIN’ Tom Sawyer, Detective ix. 74 ‘Any way you druther have it, that is the way I druther have it. He--- .’ ‘There ain't any druthers about it, Huck Finn; nobody said anything about druthers.’ 1941 W. A. PERCY Lanterns on Levee (1948) xxii. 292 ‘Your ruthers is my ruthers' (what you would rather is what I would rather). Certainly the most amiable and appeasing phrase in any language, the language used being not English but deep Southern.

[l-hat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to mention: I can't find what they're trying to point the reader to with that "see DERN a." Dern is an archaic adjective meaning 'secret; dark; dreary,' and there are no citaions later than 1856 ("The awful, twilight dern and dun").

Дружба победит =)

[dr-kur-patov.livejournal.com]

Френдз?

[shultz-flory.livejournal.com]

А кто-нибудь знает, как на русский переводится meest?

[commist.livejournal.com]

Сенька-бери-мяч.