Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[peter w]

I would have walked out in disgust after buying some.

[Brian Taylor]

Cob: Aristocrat to a horse to a pipe

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cob

'Cob on mite'.

[Mortimer's Bear]

I have until now imagined that I had a fairly decent understanding of the English language.

Tell us what a "cob" is and we'll believe you. Also, if I offer you a "piece" what would you do with it? ;-)

Now you're just being mean :-) I said that I believed I had a fairly decent understanding of the English language, not that I had mastered every nuance, dialect or any kind cockney rhyming slang...

The first thing that comes to my mind when someone says 'cob' to me is maize - corn cobs. It could be a building material, and also a short-legged horse.

A 'piece' is to me a gun, or a graffiti artwork. If you offered me a piece of chocolate, I'd accept it :-) or possibly a piece of land...

I'm absolutely certain I've missed out on several other meanings, but so be it.

Surely a piece is a sandwich?

[in exile]

I have until now imagined that I had a fairly decent understanding of the English language.

Tell us what a "cob" is and we'll believe you. Also, if I offer you a "piece" what would you do with it? ;-)

Now you're just being mean :-) I said that I believed I had a fairly decent understanding of the English language, not that I had mastered every nuance, dialect or any kind cockney rhyming slang...

The first thing that comes to my mind when someone says 'cob' to me is maize - corn cobs. It could be a building material, and also a short-legged horse.

A 'piece' is to me a gun, or a graffiti artwork. If you offered me a piece of chocolate, I'd accept it :-) or possibly a piece of land...

I'm absolutely certain I've missed out on several other meanings, but so be it.

Surely a piece is a sandwich?

I thought a piece was just a slice of bread

[ChicagoLion]

Also a Cob is a bad mood, He got a bit of a Cob on.

[in exile]

Also a Cob is a bad mood, He got a bit of a Cob on.

Who has?

[itbrvilla]

Also a Cob is a bad mood, He got a bit of a Cob on.

Not to be confused with got a lob on.

[Risso]

So Remi thinks that Gestede played well against Southampton. Must have found Sherwood's "Fucking Idiot" tablets.

[andyh]

Sandwich is far to posh a reference for a 'piece'.
A piece consisted of a single slice of bread spread with, butter/marge/jam or meat or fish paste.

[TB]

Big relief to know that I have not upset you TB.  I thought you were a Brummie. Good job I did not launch into Volume 2 of Brummie Loyk It Wam which explores the sub patois of posh pronunciation wherein words are gentrified - kettle becomes kekkul, bottle becomes bokkul, album becomes albun (see Peaky Blinders) and mangle the word that started this prance around the mulberry bush was pronounced mandle by aspirational guttersnipes like those from whom I am descended.

Brian, no worries. I have to agree, though: I think your Volume 2 would have left me utterly bewildered - even more than your family in-joke did. If you want any additional conversation-starters comparing English and Norwegian etymology just let me know - but hopefully there's a better place than the Rémi Garde thread for that on this site? I feel I have taken this thread too much off topic already (with the help of others, obviously).

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Sandwich is far to posh a reference for a 'piece'.
A piece consisted of a single slice of bread spread with, butter/marge/jam or meat or fish paste.

Or dipped healthily in hot bacon fat.

[Jimbo]

So Remi thinks that Gestede played well against Southampton. Must have found Sherwood's "Fucking Idiot" tablets.

He did play well, for the back end of a pantomime horse. I'm sure the festive season will help Remi brush up on this vital English phrase.

[Brend'Watkins]

Sandwich is far to posh a reference for a 'piece'.
A piece consisted of a single slice of bread spread with, butter/marge/jam or meat or fish paste.

Or even dry bread.  I've never heard of a piece being referred to as a sandwich.

[Risso]

A piece in our house was a slice of bread with dripping. Usually with loads of salt on top. Healthy.

[avfcdale]

A piece in our house was a slice of bread with dripping. Usually with loads of salt on top. Healthy.

Agree

it was either beef dripping or condensed milk