I put a spell on you...

[venta]

Gosh. It's ages since we've had one of these. Words I use which no one else knows...

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A perfectly respectable definition can be found here.

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Edit: supplementary question. If it didn't mean what you thought, what did you think it meant?

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Where, if you'll pardon me asking, are those parts? I don't recognise the bridge...

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Central Scotland. (The bridge is the Forth Bridge.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aha.

Are you a native of those parts? I'd always assumed you were from a more, er, penguiny sort of area.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

I recognised the bridge :) (I lived in Gateshead for a number of years, and occasionally ventured further north)

[venta.livejournal.com]

In that case you've lived far enough north to get spelks in your fingers!

Then again, maybe you started off so amazingly south that you'd take longer than usual to get acclimatised :)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Possibly so :)

Besides which, there were considerably more Southerners round the office than cleavable pieces of wood.