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water runs/flows. Wolf (over)= flow.

wolf backwards.

Thanks chaps! I never thought of putting a wolf into reverse, that's a howling success. I've also checked that this site doesn't send you an e-mail when you post to your own thread. Clever, innit?

Well, now you've upset me. This site has never sent me an email since I joined. Could it be the Cabernet or perhaps the cocoa that's to blame?

John, You are a little out of the way up there. Are you sure that you are actually connected to the internet and not hallucinating all this? Never mind the Cabernet, it could be a severe case of Dewar's flu.
(Don't worry, I don't understand this either).

Terry

You say that in every day language pent is not often used without up? I would say that that pent with or without up is not often used in every day language.

Bees

Begs = asks rather than raises

Bees and John from A

Since joining the forum I seem to have received many more E_Mails but not from the forum but from a multitude of other sources, mostly inviting me to spend. Co-incdence?

Cynical JimB makes a re-visit (Hi Campo)

JimB,
With one notable exception I would agree that "pent" (with or without up) is rarely if ever heard. The exception is "pent up anger".

The shepherd who keeps his sheep on the field behind our house is from a long standing Arran family and uses 'pent' rather than 'penned' when the sheep are in the enclosure. This Scots dictionary might help:

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/

John from A

When you say \"the shepherd who keeps his sheep on the field behind your house is from a long standing Arran family and uses \'pent\' rather than \'penned\' when the sheep are in the enclosure\". Is he speaking to you or writing to you? If speaking, how do you know?

JimB

P.S. Farmer, field, sheep, behind our house,... dump your computer and let go!!

The phrase 'pent-up emotions' springs to mind...