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9:50 pm
January 2, 2014
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Love this thread
Off now to see if I can find the offending word/s in my books! I had to look up ‘gralloch’ too!
But – I still loved Wolf Hall !!!! I’m allowed 
12:16 am
January 3, 2012
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Steve Callaghan said
True but I can’t find it – I’ve forgotten where it is, Bo.
Honestly Steve what we going to do with you? You dizzy eyed puttock 
Fancy forgetting where you put your ubilette. Oh well guess we’ll just have to chuck you out the window then.. LOL
Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod
12:20 am
May 3, 2013
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It’s ok, I landed on the thickest part of me – my head. I sprained my gralloch though.
12:47 am
January 3, 2012
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Steve You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!
Thou cream faced loon.
Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod
12:48 am
May 3, 2013
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10:30 am
January 2, 2014
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I’m learning such a lot of new words
11:51 am
October 28, 2011
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Boleyn said
Steve You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!
Thou cream faced loon.
You sound like a pirate Is there a word for chucking someone out a porthole then?
1:42 pm
January 2, 2014
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Olga said
Boleyn said
Steve You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!
Thou cream faced loon.You sound like a pirate
If there isn’t, there should be
2:04 pm
January 2, 2014
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“Defenestrate” is on pg 64 in my eBook version TudorFan, you might have to halve the page count for the paperback version. She also used the word “gralloch”. Pg 72. Maybe the Booker Prize goes to whoever can look up the fanciest words in their Thesaurus?
Found it! Page 33 in my hardbacked version. Not a word I would have recognised so I can’t understand why I didn’t look it up at the time I was reading the book. I think she was attempting a little joke? I don’t suppose you will give her the benefit of the doubt?!
Sorry, I’ve done something to the quote, it hasn’t posted properly.
2:57 pm
January 3, 2012
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TudorFan said
Olga said
Boleyn said
Steve You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!
Thou cream faced loon.You sound like a pirate
If there isn’t, there should be
LOL. Shakespeare has got a lot to answer for. In fact you can have a lot of fun with his oath’s and swearwords.
Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod
9:53 pm
October 28, 2011
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TudorFan said
Found it! Page 33 in my hardbacked version. Not a word I would have recognised so I can’t understand why I didn’t look it up at the time I was reading the book. I think she was attempting a little joke? I don’t suppose you will give her the benefit of the doubt?!
Craig told me what defenestrate meant But I had to look up gralloch.
If the whole book was a joke then I will give her a comedy prize myself. I just heard Louise’s scream of outrage from across the sea….
My favourite character in Bring up the Bollocks was Chapuys’ hat. I had some very warm feelings about that hat.
9:58 pm
November 18, 2010
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Shakespeare’s work is pull of underused words.
It's always bunnies.
10:10 pm
November 18, 2010
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Olga said
My favourite character in Bring up the Bollocks was Chapuys’ hat. I had some very warm feelings about that hat.
I can fore-see a load of intereasting new fanfic being written.
It's always bunnies.
10:33 pm
October 28, 2011
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Anyanka said
I can fore-see a load of intereasting new fanfic being written.
10:40 pm
May 3, 2013
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Wolf Hat, for a start.
10:15 am
April 9, 2011
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defenestrate: My new discipline method in the classroom. Do your work or I will defenestrate you. Thank you people for alerting me to this awesome teaching tool.
1:06 pm
January 2, 2014
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Bill1978 said
defenestrate: My new discipline method in the classroom. Do your work or I will defenestrate you. Thank you people for alerting me to this awesome teaching tool.
2:58 pm
January 3, 2012
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Bill how about this to bamboozle your students.
“Your abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.”
“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”
“There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.”
“Away, you mouldy rogue, away!”
“A fusty nut with no kernel.”
“Thou be a mewling dizzy-eyed giglet.”
Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod
5:28 pm
February 24, 2010
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Bill1978 said
defenestrate: My new discipline method in the classroom. Do your work or I will defenestrate you. Thank you people for alerting me to this awesome teaching tool.
Better to defenestrate rather than to gralloch!
8:16 pm
February 16, 2014
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I’ve just finished reading Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies and didn’t think they were all that bad! Sure, they may not be entirely accurate in terms of what actually happened, but it is historical fiction after all. The author may embellish where they wish to. If Hilary Mantel is going around saying that what she’s written is entirely accurate and true then that is a problem, though.
That aside, I’m really excited for the series to start! I adore Thomas Cromwell for reasons even I do not understand. Ever since I read Dissolution by C.J Sansom I’ve wanted to know more and more about him. The portrayal of him in the Tudors (TV series) broke my heart. I loved these books and accurate or not, I don’t think they were all that bad! I did find her way of writing extremely hard to follow though.. Three different men in a room having a conversation and you’re just meant to know who “He” is each time someone speaks. @__@
