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Glad today is a better day for you, Jazzy, but I expect you'll be up and down for a while....

Jazzy and Rusty- out of interest both check your Chambers - we've had discrepancies before, with mine being the ill-fated 13th edition .....

I've looked in the Concise Oxford and both dubbining and dubbing are given in there!
So we could ALL be right!

Well, Elle, I am not so unconvinced as I was.
My mind is open to coherent persuasion!
Possibly the "ladies who lunch" may have an argument on this one!
http://www.amazon.com/GO-TELL-AUNT-RHODY-Aliki/dp/0027004104
Let us hope this works!
You see, I have had another of my brainwaves and think you should buy this book.
You can tell the grandchildren all about the goose etc.
It will do wonders for your street cred!

Elle
I have just checked Chambers 12th. It shows only dubbing as a verb. Concise Oxford (1990 edition) shows both dubbing and dubbining. So take your pick !

There you go! We are all correct!
A pat on the back all round!

I have just remembered, I have Chambers Dictionary on Hudl as an app. Who knows!
I shall consult it... I may be some time...
As the man said!

Haas v Raonic at crucial stage .......back in a bit...

Rusty, I'm sure the grandkids would love to hear about the Old Grey Goose! - I shall look into that link- thanks. I'm just not sure whether the version will be old enough for the kids? One is only a board book- that will definitely be too young - not sure about the hard back?
I tried to 'open' it but only the board book could be 'seen'?

Sorry to disappear......there was a Crucial tie break...which Tommy Haas sadly lost - match gone to Raonic.
Had me on the edge of my seat!

I have always said the Concise Oxford is better than Chambers!!!
Just joking!
I have checked my app and it does not have dubbining.
So...
And, surprisingly to me, it does not have Dub, a native of Dublin?
In Dundee the word dub means a dirty puddle.
Comes from the Gaelic, dubh, meaning black.
Linn in Gaelic means a waterfall, or a pool at the foot of a waterfall.
So Dublin would translate as Blackpool.

Elle and rusty
I had not thought of doing this before but just now, I have been in my late husband's "den" as I remembered he had a book of American Folk Songs. I have found it!
(The Penguin Book of American Folk Songs) by Alan Lomax (dated 1964)
...and turning to page 95 I find "The old grey goose" with the music printed. Have just played it on my keyboard. I could attach a photo but it would mean taking a digital one, saving it, uploading it to site and then posting a link. Too hot !!! (and some may complain )
The words are actually shown as
"Go tell Aunt Rhody" etc.
It goes on "she died last Sunday with a tooth-ache in her head."
attributed to Jean-Jaques Roussea to whom it is said to have come in a dream.
A lullaby of the white pioneers etc. etc.
Laptop is overheating (probably the excitement) haha

I've been to one black pool but not the other!
Blackpool in Lancashire is not all that far from Fleetwood, where we used to spend our holidays when I was little!
I've never been to Dublin, although one of my friends came from Dundalk, which is quite near Dublin, isn't it Rusty? or has my Geography let me down again?