Kent & East Sussex Railway

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That definition is also supported by the OED.

 

I thought it was only North Wales that had slated trains?

Tom

 

I think Chamberlain may have said something like that in 1938 and look what happened next.

 

I'm sure it is.

Yes but World War and a financial crisis are too different things entirely.

 

I seem to remember there is a war going on now that is causing much of the financial pain.

 

This neo-Crimean war you speak of is also giving me an earache but, hey ho, life goes on.
I cannot stop you being who you wish to be but, I will choose to be positive and ignore all the doom and gloom.

 

Not a usage with which I am familiar - so didn't understand.

 

I’ve always understood ‘slated’ as coming from the idea of something written on a piece of slate or, later, a blackboard. Commonly found on the wall of many a workshop. For many decades small framed slates were used daily by just about every child, at school, to practice writing at a time when paper would’ve been very expensive so ‘slated’ is a term which’d easily’ve made sense to many past generations and hasn’t yet died out.

 

I find this conversation interesting in that it's a term I can't remember not knowing in this context, is not one whose etymology I'd expect to make me especially aware of, but is obviously far from common knowledge.

 

I too was surprised at it was a term frequently used at work and I thought on the TV and in the print media as well.

 

As far as I can see - it is more common in AM english - I think in the UK we would say Schedule or Roster. Susie Dent had an interesting chat about Roster on Countdown about a week ago. It is related to Roast - meat was roasted on a metal frame which left a pattern of lines on the meat similar to the lines on a roster.

 

My OED begs to differ, which is why I find the question of experience so interesting

 

Taw Valley as well then according to that post!

 

It had to happen, the KESR has caught a doze of Bigchufferitus, there is no cure, you have to let it take its course, i would recommend an 9f, followed by a Castle, and if its not cleared up, an A1

 

Oh no, 1st Spa Valley, now KESR? What next? East Kent??
Can I just be the 1st to say that, this is going to play hell with the trackwork.

 

Someone’s done what @Steve has mentioned before about someone getting their last 2 digits mixed up…

 

"Bullied" !!!

 

Playground name calling - it's feeling a bit sore about being called a big chuffer ...

Tom