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Chris -- 2025-05-10
A rare beasty that pops up occassionally in the Merthyr Valley in South Wales, UK. Not actually in common usuage by the people of the area, but is used by the occassional person who, curiously enough, tends to be absolutely convinced that the correct word is ‘moral’ not ‘model’ no matter how you may try and correct them, or even asking them how somebody’s physical resemblance can be a moral of something else.
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Love this one! (And I love “rare beasties” too.)
The user obviously has never heard Gilbert & Sullivan’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General.” :-)
I can see how this might come about… The words are not that far apart, and someone who is moral is often a model citizen also. Is there anything in the Welsh dialect that could lead to this mixup?
Feeling quite combobulated.
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JonW719 wrote:
Love this one (And I love “rare beasties” too.)
The user obviously has never heard Gilbert & Sullivan’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General.” :-)
I can see how this might come about… The words are not that far apart, and someone who is moral is often a model citizen also. Is there anything in the Welsh dialect that could lead to this mixup?
Not as far as I’m aware. It could be something that got passed down a family line and, because families in the Valleys tend not to move to far from each other, has started to pop up through different people. My hope, it doesn’t meme and spread out into the general population. (shudder)
Last edited by Sakura No Seirei (2008-02-07 18:34:21)
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