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Hannah

I have enjoyed your recent postings. Are you in Australia?

Hannah, thanks for your posts. I didn't pay much attention to the verses, I'm afraid - once a day, event, is over, I lose interest!
I didn't mind your gran's 'dreckly', that's just a regional/pronunciation thing - nothing to concern pedants unduly.

Jigjag, the only soap I watch is 'Coronation Street', so I knew Shona (as a character). I haven't watched EastEnders for at least a decade, but I had vague memories of Dr Legg.

On the subject of words somehow meaning their opposite (dreckly), I had a visitor who, when I asked if she wanted tea/coffee, replied 'just now'. So I hurried off to make it, but on receiving it she said she wanted it later. My interpretation of 'just now' was 'right now', given that just and right are synonymous. But her meaning was 'not just now'. Help!

That's a strange one, SteveA … are you sure you didn't just mishear her?

SteveA6000 Was your friend from South Africa.
In Jo'Burg, 'just now' means ' in a little while; very soon.

Cerasus - very interesting! That's the something new I've learned today.

Similarly: “I’ll do it now in a minute.” A Welsh thing, I think.

I like that one, cloverjo!

Hi!
In County Durham, in my youth, "just now" meant "a short time in the future".
At school, I had a Scottish French Teacher (!) and she would set our work task and say, "Do that just now" meaning "immediately" then she would shout at us because the whole class sat there doing nothing.

Hi pedagogue
You've reminded me. I, a Devon lad, was taught French by a diminutive Glaswegian lady called Miss Hamilton. Us Devon lads couldn't understand her when she was supposedly speaking English!