Something unexpected

[nq:1]It's been awhile since anyone here posted the lead-up to the Spanish Inquisition sketch, but you can bet that the ... gone out askew on t' treadle" (1) That is a mishearing; it should be "out o' skew", not "out askew".[/nq]
True, but "skew w(h)iff" would probably have been even more authentic.
[nq:1]This has been a Public Service Announcement. (1) Not "treddle", which is a gobbet of

[nq:1]It's been awhile since anyone here posted the lead-up to the Spanish Inquisition sketch[/nq]
Six days.

Subject: Re: We All Deseve to Die View
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
Date: 2004-06-02 03:11:47 PST

Best - Donna Richoux

[nq:2]It's been awhile since anyone here posted the lead-up to ... "treddle", which is a gobbet of sheep or goat ***.[/nq]
[nq:1]Really? I thought that was a "winnet".[/nq]
Interesting my intuition tells me that "winnet" is the sort of word which flourishes west of the Pennines, whilst "treddle" prefers the harsher conditions found on the eastern flanks.
On this subject, though, Ramsbo

[nq:2]Really? I thought that was a "winnet".[/nq]
[nq:1]Interesting my intuition tells me that "winnet" is the sort of word which flourishes west of the Pennines, whilst "treddle" prefers the harsher conditions found on the eastern flanks. On this subject, though, Ramsbottom must have the last word. Matti[/nq]
'Fraid not. Winnets Pass ( ) leads down from the High Peak into the Derbyshire

[nq:1]It's been awhile since anyone here posted the lead-up to the Spanish Inquisition sketch, but you can bet that the ... askew". This has been a Public Service Announcement. (1) Not "treddle", which is a gobbet of sheep or goat ***.[/nq]
Why would it be a mishearing? The point of the phrase is that it's intended to be meaningless - a parody of the archetypal 'trouble at t' mill' speech. The

[nq:2]It's been awhile[/nq]
a while
[nq:2]since anyone here posted the lead-up to the Spanish Inquisition ... "treddle", which is a gobbet of sheep or goat ***.[/nq]
[nq:1]Why would it be a mishearing? The point of the phrase is that it's intended to be meaningless -[/nq]
Pas du tout. It may be nonsense but it's not a random collection of words. "Out o' skew" it should be. No-one w

"Adrian Bailey" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:1]a while[/nq]
[nq:2]Why would it be a mishearing? The point of the phrase is that it's intended to be meaningless -[/nq]
[nq:1]Pas du tout. It may be nonsense but it's not a random collection of words. "Out o' skew" it should ... and "treddle" but that seems beyond the realms of punctuatability. One on t' crossbeams' gone out

[nq:2]One on t' crossbeams' gone out o' skew on treddle.[/nq]
[nq:1]Oh puhleeze. We're talking about a bunch of Oxbridge graduates attemptingto sound like working-class Yorkshiremen, and maybe they said "askew" because they didn't know better.[/nq]
Nonsense. They said "out o' skew". The problem is with the transcription.

Adrian

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[nq:2]sound like working-class Yorkshiremen, and maybe they said "askew"because they didn't know better.[/nq]
[nq:1]Nonsense. They said "out o' skew". The problem is with the transcription.[/nq]
Look, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
(Someone had to say it.)

[nq:2]Interesting my intuition tells me that "winnet" is the ... On this subject, though, Ramsbottom must have the last word.[/nq]
[nq:1]'Fraid not. Winnets Pass ( http://tinyurl.com/2lx3h ) leads down fromthe High Peak into the Derbyshire lowlands. I've always assumed this wasthe route the sheep *** was delivered down into