Re: The "prison IS university" metaphor - a review

Pat Durkin wrote:
> tony cooper wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:54:30 +0000, {R} <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> In uk.culture.language.english on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:16:43 -0400,
>>> tony cooper <tony_cooper213@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> }On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:39:08 +0000, Molly Mockford
>>> }<nospamnobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> }
>>> }>At 05:04:23 on Sat, 15 Mar 2008, FCS <sipston_777@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote in
>>> }><2d398840-45d0-47f8-9e05-385f3e2fd9b0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>>> }> }>>tended to leave prison with a range of criminal skills
>>> enabling them to }>>hotwire vehicles, forge keys and pry 10 types of
>>> window jamb }>
>>> }>Excuse me, but although you may get away with that in aue, in ucle
>>> we }>speak UK English, and the word is "prise".  "Pry" means to
>>> intrude, to }>poke one's nose into somebody else's affairs;  "prise"
>>> means to jemmy. }
>>> }Then why do they sell "pry bars" in the UK?
>>> }http://www.powertooldirect.co.uk/estwing-m-67.html
>>> }
>>> }Are they used to swat an intruder's nose?
>>>
>>> Indeed, preferably a Yankee nose too, as they seem to be taking over
>>> our mother tongue :)
>>>
>> You are (cross) posting to a newsgroup where AmE, as well as BrE, is
>> spoken.  The correct term is "Yank".  Acceptable variations are
>> "Septic", "Merkin", or "Fat-assed, loud-mouth".
>>
>> "Yankee", however, is geography-specific term that identifies a
>> northerner in the U.S. or a person from one of the New England states.
>> It is not inclusive of Americans who live in the south, the South, and
>> the western states.  I'm sure you would not want to exclude them from
>> your swatting preferences.
>>
>> If you intend to observe the niceties of the difference between "pry
>> up" and "prise up", then please extend your discretion to the
>> difference between "Yankee" and "Yank".
> 
> Oh, so the "Yankee Go Home" campaigns were in reference to Down-Easters,

> and Midwesterners.  Right?

When heard in New Orleans , yes.

-- 
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada