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Hulmerist

Did Morrissey make that up? A Hulmerist should be
one who endulges in hulming, but I didn't found
this anywhere except as proper name like Hulm
or Hulmer. Obsolete?

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[nq:1]Did Morrissey make that up? A Hulmerist should be one who endulges in hulming, but I didn't found this anywhere except as proper name like Hulm or Hulmer. E.

  • [nq:1]Did Morrissey make that up?
  • A Hulmerist should be one who endulges in hulming, but I didn't found this anywhere except as proper name like Hulm or Hulmer.
  • E.
  • ) (The only Morrissey I know is a American film actor.
  • ) Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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[nq:1]Did Morrissey make that up? A Hulmerist should be one who endulges in hulming, but I didn't found this anywhere except as proper name like Hulm or Hulmer. Obsolete?[/nq]
The English writer T.E. Hulme (1883-1917) used to
be quite famous (for right-wing aesthetics.) (The only Morrissey I know is a American film actor. You may need to provide more context.)

Don Phillipson
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[nq:1]Did Morrissey make that up? A Hulmerist should be one who endulges in hulming, but I didn't found this anywhere except as proper name like Hulm or Hulmer. Obsolete?[/nq]
Looks like a joke to me. Isn't the name "Hulme" commonly pronounced /hju:m/? This would give "hulmerist" the same pronunciation as "humo(u)rist" (for some people, anyway).
I don't understand your reference to Morriss
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[nq:2]Did Morrissey make that up? A Hulmerist should be one ... anywhere except as proper name like Hulm or Hulmer. Obsolete?[/nq]
[nq:1]Looks like a joke to me. Isn't the name "Hulme" commonly pronounced /hju:m/? This would give "hulmerist" the same pronunciation ... to Morrissey, though. That's a pop singer, isn't it? Does this mean that you heard, rather than read, the word?[/nq]
You pr
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[nq:2]Looks like a joke to me. Isn't the name "Hulme" ... this mean that you heard, rather than read, the word?[/nq]
[nq:1]You probably need a Manc to explain this. So, pending confirmation from T'Omrud and Jay Dee, here goes. Morrissey (the ... marginalisation challenges of inner-city Manchester. (Or at least it used to be; it may well have been gentrified now.)[/nq]
We may safely assume,
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John Dean had it:
[nq:2]You probably need a Manc to explain this. So, pending ... used to be; it may well have been gentrified now.)[/nq]
[nq:1]We may safely assume, without making an *** of you and me, that he wasn't referring to William Hulme's Grammar ... the time of the notorious "decks" - the John Nash, Charles Barry et al "crescents" which have now been demolished.[/nq]
I thought
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[nq:1]Hulme is now unrecognisable - I get lost driving around there as all the "old" (I.e. 60s) road layout has ... home of the True Boddingtons - the building is still there but it's now something other than a straightforward pub.[/nq]
Is the Aaben (sp?) Cinema still there? It was the only place in Manchester apart from the university film society that ever showed non-mainstream-Hollywood fil
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[nq:1]I lived in one of those crescents when I was a student - it was astonishingly good value and we could walk to the University.[/nq]
Which one?
[nq:1]There was the odd burglary but I wasn't aware of any violence, except for the day the Socialist Workers Party and the Workers Revolutionary Party were both marching against something-or-other and met in front of our block.[/nq]
They w
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Ross Howard had it:
[nq:2]Hulme is now unrecognisable - I get lost driving around ... there but it's now something other than a straightforward pub.[/nq]
[nq:1]Is the Aaben (sp?) Cinema still there? It was the only place in Manchester apart from the university film society that ever showed non-mainstream-Hollywood films WIWAL.[/nq]
I ran the University Film Soc for three years.
I'm
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Ida Goode-Johnson had it:
[nq:2]I lived in one of those crescents when I was a student - it was astonishingly good value and we could walk to the University.[/nq]
[nq:1]Which one?[/nq]
"The University" was Manchester University, known to inhabitants in those days as "Owens" to distinguish it from UMIST, known as "Tech". Owens and Tech were reunited last October to form "Manchester Univ
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[nq:1]Ida Goode-Johnson had it:[/nq]
[nq:2]Which one?[/nq]
[nq:1]"The University" was Manchester University, known to inhabitants in those days as "Owens" to distinguish it from UMIST, known as ... October to form "Manchester University". We knew about Salford University but never went there. Manchester Poly wasn't on our radar.[/nq]
My fault. I meant which crescent?!
Ida Goode-Joh

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