M & D Deep Duck Motrix

[Becky Lindroos]

On Jan 12, 2015, at 4:17 PM, David Mugmon <dmugmon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a question re the text in the current section that I've never been able to decipher.  Mason asks Dixon, "Come, Sir - What's the first thing they'll ask when you get back to County Durham? Eh?  'Did ye see them rahde the Eeahr at Taahburn?' (Pg. 15)
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> Taahburn = Tyburn?
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> I just can't cut thru Mason's mock Durham dialect.  I've read it out loud, asked others and I can't make sense of it.  What in the hell will they ask Dixon when he returns home?

Now me: 

'Did ye see them rahde the Eeahr at Taahburn?' (Pg. 15)

Also mentioned on page 8 - 
The Rev’d, producing a scared old Note-book, cover’d in cheap Leather, begins to read.  “Had I been the first churchman of modern times to be swung from Tyburn Tree, - had I been then taken for dead whilst in fact …”  

So Page 15 sounds like: 
“Did you see them ride the air at Tyburn?”  
and likely means: 
"Did you see them hanging from the tree at the  public hangings at Tyburn?”
 
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_a_ride_to_Tyburn

Bek








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> On Jan 11, 2015, at 3:48 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Maybe 'vis motrix' (Newton's force acting upon a body "proportional to the motion which it produces in a given time"; or motivating force), but omitting the 'vis' (maybe redundant, not as neat?...)?  I read it as meaning something like his eyes weren't participating in his smile.
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>> On Jan 11, 2015, at 12:14 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> https://books.google.com/books?id=_yPWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=vis+motrix+definition&source=bl&ots=mQ4yVNu4Pz&sig=OULbkV51vtYiTNMuqWu8cPSkDWs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kgWzVN6VCo61ogTxgoLwBw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=vis%20motrix%20definition&f=false
>>> p. 15. All:  define and riff on 'the Motrix of Mirth'
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