Congratulations on the book! I agree with all the positive comments. I look at my surroundings with a different eye these days as a result of the book as well as the newsletter. Hmm, looks like I need to go back and check out all the endnotes, I glanced over them but definitely need to do more investigation!
My first thought was that the Ned in question must be Dutch Ned, the sawdust-laden character to whom David introduced my wife and me in the Too High and Too Steep class at the Burke Museum that accompanied the release of the book of the same name a few years ago. I wonder which came first, the saying or the famous Dutch Ned from Seattle?
Yob: more often used in the form yobbo. It definitely has the connotation of semi-delinquent, aggressive, unruly young man. The sort who tumbles out of the pub at closing time ready to start a fight at the slightest provocation, or none at all! In the UK, Country Bumpkin connotes a more mellow, slow-talking type.
Congratulations on the book! I agree with all the positive comments. I look at my surroundings with a different eye these days as a result of the book as well as the newsletter. Hmm, looks like I need to go back and check out all the endnotes, I glanced over them but definitely need to do more investigation!
My first thought was that the Ned in question must be Dutch Ned, the sawdust-laden character to whom David introduced my wife and me in the Too High and Too Steep class at the Burke Museum that accompanied the release of the book of the same name a few years ago. I wonder which came first, the saying or the famous Dutch Ned from Seattle?
Congratulations on the book anniversary!
Yob: more often used in the form yobbo. It definitely has the connotation of semi-delinquent, aggressive, unruly young man. The sort who tumbles out of the pub at closing time ready to start a fight at the slightest provocation, or none at all! In the UK, Country Bumpkin connotes a more mellow, slow-talking type.