In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tamara P. Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >DH will sometimes - jocularly - say: "carry on, Mac Duff",
>Bev says her mother used the phrase "get going" to: "hurry us along"... When I was little, Mom used to say "carry on McDuff" (she's 82 now - whether of any relevance, her mother was Wardrobe Mistress for Sir Frank Benson's Royal Shakespeare Touring Company - based at Stratford, and one of Mom's uncles was Stage Carpenter at Stratford around 1900), usually when we were about to leave the house to go anywhere - I can't remember her pronouncing the 'a' of Mac, though. Having just phoned and asked her, it is Mc (Scots) not Mac (Irish), and Grandma used to say it to them - she says because Grandma was in the theatre and it comes from McBeth. She used it as a hurrying along phrase - my eldest sister was known for her "in a minute". -- Jane Partridge -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.0 - Release Date: 02/03/2005 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
