30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
6:48 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:36:26 +0000, Jules Richardson
<julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:51 +1000, Huw Davies wrote:
> On 30/03/2005, at 6:01 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> > Doubtless from the Scots word
"cludgie", meaning outside toilet.
> > Since we don't have those any more, it refers to any rather squalid
> > toilet - think about the bookmaker scene in Trainspotting.
> You mean you actually understand the dialog in
Trainspotting - my
> housekeeper who originally comes from Glasgow admits she can't
> understand much of the dialog :-)
Back on topic, does the correct pronunciation of
kludge contain the 'd',
or is it silent? 98% of people here in the UK seem to pronounce the d,
but I've heard a few who don't. Mind you, 'bodge' is an equivalent and
more commonly heard over here than kludge.
Two separate words with different pronunciation, as per the jargon
file and earlier discussion here. Kludge (kl-uh-j) and Kluge
(kl-oo-j). I was surprised to find that a) I was wrong in assuming
they were net-variants of the same term, and b) anyone would care to
differentiate.
-dhbarr.