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2007-07-23, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Bollux/Bollox/Bollocks?
Hey everyone- This post is a question for all the UK GitPers out there. Is there a correct spelling of bollox/bollux/bollocks/etc? I've seen it a couple of different ways, so maybe it varies? (It's for dialogue in a book for a character who's Welsh. I knew someone from Wales who, if memory serves, spelled it bollox, but I'm not entirely sure anymore.)
Thanks!Last edited by Muz; 2007-07-23 at 12:36 PM.
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2007-07-23, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Bollux/Bollox/Bollocks?
I'm not from the UK, but I'd spell it "bollocks".
LEO agrees with this.Last edited by LCR; 2007-07-23 at 12:29 PM.
I think the phrase rhymes with 'clucking bell'.
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2007-07-23, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Bollux/Bollox/Bollocks?
It is definately Bollocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollocks
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2007-07-23, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Bollux/Bollox/Bollocks?
In before lock *eyeroll*
What purpose does this thread serve that a Google search wouldn't have answered better?
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2007-07-23, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, Wikipedia. One of these days I'll remember that it holds the answers to all life's questions. Thanks! (I might go with "bollox," though, as that's mentioned in there as a useage designed to make it seem less vulgar, as it fits in better with the character.)
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2007-07-23, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Bollux/Bollox/Bollocks?
Agreed.
The UK also has an incredible number of words both medical, physiological and just slang for testicles. Don't neglect them! ;)---------------------------------------------------
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2007-07-23, 12:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thanks for the friendly reply. If you figure the thread's a waste of your time, why bother to reply at all?
The reason I figured I'd ask here is because I'd rather get it from someone who's a part of the culture it comes from rather than look it up on a Google search, especially as I've seen it in multiple variants. (I'd rather look out the window and see the weather directly than look up the weather on Yahoo, for example.)Author of Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure, a comedic fantasy novel set in a version of our world where reality TV show heroes slay actual monsters and the Greek gods have their own Twitter feeds!
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Well I'm still open to input. My threads usually don't garner much response, so I figured that's all I'd get.
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2007-07-23, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Bollux/Bollox/Bollocks?
It's spelt "bollocks".
FYI, most anything spelled with an X at the end is probably an informal misspelling of a word that sounds like that.
And I could say something similar about the U you put there, but actually they are used as weak vowels in some words (though for the sake of spelling something as you hear it, it could be written with almost any vowel).
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2007-07-23, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Box! Fox! Mix! This pagex!
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2007-07-23, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Bollocks. (I'm from South Africa, but we learn the Queen's English here )
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BOLLOCKS!
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i usually use the -ux because it sounds sooooo cool.
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I believe this thread has served it's purpose, we are now all educated in spelling bollocks
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