Subject: Re: Subject: [Harp-L] Meatwhistle?! I got yer euphemism right here!

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

That does sound plausible, Brian. Nice to hear your perspective.
 
 
I'm interested because when we came to the States my father's accent was so 
 thick very few people could understand anything he said. They'd  politely 
pretend though, and he'd hold forth about the Celtics and  Rangers (that's 
pronounced SELtics, btw: Glasgow's football team --don't  dare try to tell 
him it was called soccer here) 'you kick the ball--it's  FOOTball; case 
closed!'
 
 
He was a delightful human being and when I began playing harmonica at  4 I 
didn't think much about what it was called but as I got to be a  young 
teenager and his hearing difficulties made his speech louder ....it  got to be an 
embarrassment to have my Dad announce at  full voice that his daughter 
played what for all the world sounded to  others like a 'moot-organ, och aye' 
and his 'gie us a tune there, wee  yin'. My humiliated wails of Da-a-ad never 
fazed him but the twinkle in his  eye told me he knew just exactly how his 
accent was colouring folks'  impressions, and their sighs of relief when I 
merely produced a small chromatic  harmonica.<G>
 
 
 
Elizabeth
PS: Hey, John: my Dad's Uncle lived in Rutherglen and we'd visit as often  
as practicable waay back when. It's a small world.
 
 
zen33569 writes:
 
"Could it be a derivative of the german  'mundharmonika'??
Brian"

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Subject: Re: Subject: [Harp-L] Meatwhistle?! I got yer  euphemism right 
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I am just now living in Rutherglen, South  Lanarkshire, Scotland, which is 
these days a suburb of Glasgow, (Just across  the river) and most everyone 
here calls the harmonica a "Moothie" as  Elizabeth says...

John "Whiteboy"  Walden