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Mum: I need jam.
Me: Ok, what kind?
Mum: Peach.
Me: Peach?
Mum: Yes.
Me: Do you mean apricot?
Mum: Yes
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I was looking at notebooks.
Mum: That’s got a nice batter.
Me: Batter?
Mum: Aye, batter.
Me: Batter? What’s a batter?
Mum: Batter! It’s the batter! That bit there (pointing)
Me: Cover? DO you mean the cover?
Mum: Aye, that’s what I said, the cover.
Me: …
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This is very familiar. My Mother was upset yesterday because she had ‘a large loaf’. No clue.
LOL – priceless! We should introduce them!
Nettie,I’m going to stick up for your mum here as I knew exactly what she was talking about when she said the book had a nice batter as we used that word al lot when I was wee.It’s an old Scottish word for book cover. One nil to mum I think, ha ha.
Is it? Oh well, I stand corrected. On that one. ~;0)
It’s a long time since I heard it said. Used to put a new batter on our school books.
You know, now you mention it, that does sound familiar. I think that’s what we called it too!
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