grockels and emmits

Dewi2 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:12 pm

Hello there my lovers

Had a stroll along Plymouth hoe [even had a tub of icecream with clotted cream mmmm]

Now I've lived in the south west for 27 years so what I want to know is .....am I a grockel, an emmit or something else :?:

Dewi

Dave G · **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2011 2:23 pm

That entirerly depands on where you live/where exactly - most of us Devonians use grockle for an outsider, but those in north Devon, around Exmoor, use the term Emmits (refering to the apprent appearance of all those people swarming over Exmoor looking likfe ants from a distance).

The Cornish use Emmit too - and swear blind it is a Cornish word, but it;s been used in North Devon for a lot, lot longer, and there's even an arguement to be had that it was first used in Whiltshire.

Dave xxx

Dewi2 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2011 4:12 pm

Thanks Dave

I've lived in Plymouth for 27 years but will I remain a grockel until the day I die :shock:

or can I get citizenship after a certain amount of time [and if so where do I apply :?:

Exeter

]

Dewi

Dave G · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:29 am

Citizenship granted after about 30 or 40 years.....

.....if you're lucky...??!

Dave xxx

axle · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:47 am

Dewi2 wrote:

Now I've lived in the south west for 27 years so what I want to know is .....am I a grockel, an emmit or something else :?:

Something else :!:

Dave G · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:22 pm

A combination of the two.....

.....a gromitt...??!

Dave xxx

PS Yes, I know that was a very cheesy one....! Pass the Wendslydale Wallace!

Dewi2 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:48 pm

Only 3 more years and I can consider myself a local ......wow

I'll send off to Exeter for the citizenship forms [will I need a passport :?:

] so I'm ready for the off.

And Dave you're forgiven as I happen to like cheese

Dewi

Dave G · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:23 am

Only 3 more years....you must be starting to develop some nice mutations so that you'll fit right in round these parts and look like a true local...??!

Dave xxx

Dewi2 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:48 pm

Oh Dave I can call all women 'my maid' and naturally use the term 'my lover' and I'm just gettiting used to the way towns are spelt one way and yet pronounced a completely different way :shock:

I've learnt not to chat with people at bus stops (not that I'm ever there these days :roll: