Timeline for What does this Peter Sellers sentence mean?
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| Oct 5, 2023 at 11:10 | comment | added | Greybeard | The OED shows “bahn” to be from “bound (v)”, which is “A variant or alteration of boun (v). -- OED boun v 3. intransitive. To betake oneself to (a place), set out, go. (obsolete) -- c1400 Barounes at þe sidebordes bounet ay where. Cleanness l. 1398 -- c1448 Bot bownis out of babulone with all obediens. Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie, Maitland Folio Manuscript (1919) vol. I. 176 -- 1805 Till Lord Dacre's band Were bowning back to Cumberland. W. Scott, Lay of Last Minstrel v. xxx. 154 | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 8:35 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @TinfoilHat - in Yorkshire the 'respect' aspect isn't the norm. It's merely 'listen'. | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 8:33 | vote | accept | yglodt | ||
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| Oct 3, 2023 at 3:18 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | bend down? Or maybe barn down = put on my farm clothes...? (Also, hearken means to give respectful attention) | |
| Oct 2, 2023 at 22:41 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | Well attempted, since the accent and word choice are at heart the setup for the joke, that the Dad went on from cathedral to fancy-pants though bawdy show business. | |
| Oct 2, 2023 at 21:32 | history | edited | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 21:04 | history | edited | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 20:58 | history | edited | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 20:37 | history | edited | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 20:25 | history | answered | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |