tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post7253143234701632694..comments2024-03-28T16:11:36.465+00:00Comments on Separated by a Common Language: cricket out of contextlynneguisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10171345732985610861noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-82064684874628451102023-07-09T22:42:12.894+01:002023-07-09T22:42:12.894+01:00I'm... not familiar with "hooker" in...I'm... not familiar with "hooker" in a sports context. I can't help but think of it in a more... suggestive context. ='D;Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-45714556672767795562006-11-25T23:14:00.000+00:002006-11-25T23:14:00.000+00:00Cricket is a mystery to me too, though there is th...Cricket is a mystery to me too, though there is the tale of how two radio-commentators found it hard to continue describing the match after one had said that Mr Ian Botham, a player of the game, "didn't quite get his leg over", referred to <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_wicket>here</a>. That's about it from me for cricket, though, if I may stray into another sport, it is said that, one evening, a radio-announcer had to read out the following football (soccer) score: Forfar 5 Fife 4. This brings us into the vast and intriguing linguistic sphere of <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemanballs>Colemanballs</a>, worth an <a href=http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/index.aspx>ESRC</a>-funded research-centre on its own.Paul Danonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04816761952837296368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-55558908302622333252006-11-24T16:26:00.000+00:002006-11-24T16:26:00.000+00:00Thanks for the plug, Christopher! Scouse has been...Thanks for the plug, Christopher! Scouse has been known to be raised on this blog, as it seems like half the people I know are from Liverpool. (Ok, so it's three friends and their extended families/friends, but that's three more than I know from Manchester.)<br /><br />Rebecca, AmE speakers typically wouldn't know who Holding and Willey were, so they wouldn't get that it's a pun, but they'd still recogni{s/z}e the tee-hee factor.<br /><br />Straw, you're not going to understand cricket any better after I explain it to you.lynneguisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171345732985610861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-21063930748364946752006-11-24T11:36:00.000+00:002006-11-24T11:36:00.000+00:00Have you ever seen the explanation of cricket whic...Have you ever seen the explanation of cricket which goes on about 'The team that's in goes out, and the team that's out goes in.' etc etc. My mother has it on a tea towel, IIRC.<br /><br />Oh, and PLEASE include 'The batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willy' because to an American, that wouldn't be in the least bit funny, would it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-26113737725947015332006-11-24T10:34:00.000+00:002006-11-24T10:34:00.000+00:00Hello Lynne
I came across your very interesting b...Hello Lynne<br /><br />I came across your very interesting blog in trying to verify the George Bernard Shaw quote (I had thought Sir Winston Churchill; elsewhere it's been attributed to Mark Twain). I have given your blog a plug on the YoLiverpool.com forum so you might be getting some more hits -- I am myself British (Liverpool)-born but live in the United States and I and some of the other North American scousers were explaining Thanksgiving to those still in the UK in a "Happy holiday" thread.<br /><br />ChrisChristopher T. Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15101693208817631514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28787909.post-46381960045412176992006-11-24T09:20:00.000+00:002006-11-24T09:20:00.000+00:00I don't understand cricket. If you do get round to...I don't understand cricket. If you do get round to explaining its mysterious metaphors, do you think anyone will believe me when I say "I didn't understand cricket until it was explained to me by an American"?<br /><br />You could also have a look at the metaphors of rugby, which, as we all know, is (like American football) a game played by men with odd-shaped balls. I believe they have hookers in that game too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com