I've always called it a skelf ...
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that's a new one to me. i like it! (^_^)
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Why are you denying the Scots and Northern Irish their right to skelf-determination?
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Skelf says my wife from Hamilton... not even an option!
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Definitely 'skelf ' north of the border, as in the poem 'The Sair Finger' by Walter Wingate which we all had to learn at my school in the '70s
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the sair finger! love it. =P
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for all the skelfies out there! (^_^) (http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/sair-finger …)pic.twitter.com/38JbOzqvfe
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Did people in Ireland, Wales and Scotland not even have a word for that in the 1950s?
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no available data, i guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Data is prob from Survey of English Dialects? SED, led by Orton from 1950-61. My friend Rob worked on SED in the 70s & also did a Survey of Anglo-Welsh dialects. There was a Linguistic Survey of Scotland too (1948-the 80s). & Gregg’s Ulster Dialect Study in 1951
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I didn’t know there were other words for it.
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Yeah, who knew there were people who don't call them spelks?
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Sliver...that is all.
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yeah, i grew up in the midwest u.s. (chicago) and heard splinter mostly, but my irish mother always said sliver. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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We used both. I was wary of Long John Silver’s the first time because i thought it was Long John Sliver’s, and in fact i had contracted a sliver the previous time i ate seafood.
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Parent: “Why would there be a restaurant that gives you splinters?” Child: “Why do doctors give you candy after they stick you with a needle? I DON’T KNOW.”
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