I think I know I am a wuz. At least I am not the guy to go to the wall for little point. I might have made it into the lifeboats of the Titanic, maybe I would have found a way to avoid the draft...well, maybe that is all a bit severe but at 8°C at 7:30 pm on a Friday, I found an ankle rolled a week ago too tender to play the second half of one of the last games of the Nuggets's season. The hard cores are still at it, the nutbars like me who actually like the idea of slide tackling someone across a frozen patch - or maybe just likes the recollection of having done it in high school, 23 years ago. The hard cores are also the most genial, the guys who clap for a good save for the other side, who learn the names of the guys on the other teams, who congratulate the guy who got by them. I am glad I was raised by a immigrant soccer player, glad I started playing soccer when it wasn't cool in 1979 on the invitation of Charlie Hunter in grade 11 because here I am 25 years later feeling like a bit of a schmo for not pushing it as hard as the other guys.
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Comments
Hans - October 25, 2004 10:19 AM
I think the word is: Wuss. dim.: Wussy, as in, rhymes with: Pussy.
Not that I'm making any accusations.
Alan - October 25, 2004 10:43 AM
I disagree. It has always been Wuz with a zed to me. The "u" is also pronounced in the Nova Scotian way as in half an umlaut. Lower jaw sticks out ever so slightly. Same sound as in "sook" and means roughly the same thing. Not "man as woman" but "man as child".
Hans - October 25, 2004 11:49 AM
chalk it up to regional dialectical differences, then, (if you'll pardon the pun) cuz in PEI its definitely wuss (not wuz). No doubt, they both derive from the same archaic gaelic/celtic thing.
Alan - October 25, 2004 12:04 PM
The location of the Maritime semi-umlaut (like the regional inhailed confirmation) is a delicate thing, indeed.
SayNay? - October 26, 2004 7:10 PM
Wuss: a person who is physically weak and ineffectual - go ahead, look it up. There ain't no "wuz". And Hans, feel free to make the accusations - if the camel toe fits...
Alan - October 26, 2004 7:11 PM
Then tell him it's "slippy", Hans.
Hans - October 27, 2004 10:44 AM
... well really, Al, have you ever "slippered" on the ice? I know on PEI we "slip" on the ice because ice is "slippy". I dunno, maybe you'se don't have slippy ice in Ontario. I'll have to go over across't some time and see.