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From: "Doug & Pat Frykberg" <>
Subject: Re: off list
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 05:45:05 +1200

In my memory it was a common expression usually "Ag sies". I too would love
to know where it came from.
Another is the use of the word "shame", used even now by some new ex-pats
thus. Looking at a charming new baby the friend said 'Ag shame.." How my
memories went back!
And I'm not at all sure that this is an off list subject. These phrases are
customs and part of the flesh we put on the bones of ancestors.
Pat
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From: Ann Duncan <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, 3 August 2000 01:39 AM
Subject: off list


>Hello listers,
>
>Reading a magazine the other day I suddenly came across an expression I`ve
not heard for many, many years. If any of my brothers or sisters were doing
something that my mother disapproved of she would admonish then with the
expression `Sies, don`t do that.`
>
>Would someone tell me, please, if `Sies` is still in use today, and does
anyone know it`s origins?
>
>Regards,
>
>Ann Duncan
>Lincolnshire UK
>
>
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