Comments on: Financial Times 12730 / by Quark http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:19:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: petebiddlecombe http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18275 petebiddlecombe Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:46:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18275 In popular tradition, "My old Dutch" = "my wife" for a Cockney = 'Arry. Apparently rhyming <del>slag</del> slang from "Duchess of Fife", as reported at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Chevalier - A C had a song 'My Old Dutch'. Please don't ask where the ludicrous middle names came from! In popular tradition, “My old Dutch” = “my wife” for a Cockney = ‘Arry. Apparently rhyming slag slang from “Duchess of Fife”, as reported at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Chevalier - A C had a song ‘My Old Dutch’. Please don’t ask where the ludicrous middle names came from!

]]> By: C G Rishikesh http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18267 C G Rishikesh Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:28:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18267 What I meant was "Is Arry's missus a character etc. etc." What I meant was “Is Arry’s missus a character etc. etc.”

]]> By: C G Rishikesh http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18266 C G Rishikesh Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18266 "Dutch courage", as we know, is "artificial courage induced by drinking alcohol". Is it, in any British TV show, a character that drinks perpetually? “Dutch courage”, as we know, is “artificial courage induced by drinking alcohol”. Is it, in any British TV show, a character that drinks perpetually?

]]> By: diagacht http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18265 diagacht Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18265 Thanks, I should have looked it up. Thanks, I should have looked it up.

]]> By: C G Rishikesh http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18263 C G Rishikesh Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:16:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18263 Thanks for your anno. for 20ac. I have always known "ere long" as two words. After your query I looked up Chambers, which records it as "ere long or erelong". As for reasoning for the answer to 28ac, I am still thinking! Maybe someone else can help! Thanks for your anno. for 20ac.

I have always known “ere long” as two words. After your query I looked up Chambers, which records it as “ere long or erelong”.

As for reasoning for the answer to 28ac, I am still thinking! Maybe someone else can help!

]]> By: diagacht http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18262 diagacht Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:33:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/01/financial-times-12730-quark/#comment-18262 20ac is NEGOTIATOR = GOT I in NEAT OR I can't see why 28ac is DUTCH COURAGE - what was your reasoning? Also 26ac is surely ERELONG but is this not one word rather than the two indicated? 20ac is NEGOTIATOR = GOT I in NEAT OR

I can’t see why 28ac is DUTCH COURAGE - what was your reasoning?

Also 26ac is surely ERELONG but is this not one word rather than the two indicated?

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