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Topic: Do you call it a  (pencil )  parer or topper ??
FearDubh
(524 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 15:10
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Some cork friends of mine refuse to acknowledge parer and maintain it is called a topper !! langers!!
C'monbridge
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Posted: 09-May-2008 15:11
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Its called a sharpener in this neck of the woods.
zafonic_10
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Posted: 09-May-2008 15:12
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well i`m the same

always have and always will i`d say call it a "topper"
count of monte cristo
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Posted: 09-May-2008 15:25
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i have at one time or another heard it referred to as all of the above.

and as for refusing to acknowledge anything else, typical langers
Kinder Cormac
(184 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 15:29
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Heard it called a pointer aswell but thats just posh.
abadref
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Posted: 09-May-2008 15:32
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Stanley knife
Dig Dagga Dave
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Posted: 09-May-2008 15:40
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Never heard of a "Topper" - was always called a pencil parer ... or sometimes a sharpener.
OneLeggedDancer
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Posted: 09-May-2008 15:40
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Bread knife!
JHume
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Posted: 09-May-2008 15:42
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Sharpener.
Hurling Mad
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Posted: 09-May-2008 15:42
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Topper!!!!

calling it a pearer is like calling a biro a pen!!
who does that like??
BearGrylls
(69 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 16:00
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I`d say this argument has been goin on since they were still using real lead in pencils

Quick survey of the office and everyone agrees its a topper
South east people questioned only in fairness

i think sharpner is acceptable  but only if a teacher or someone in authority used it
pearer and pointer are very pompus sounding especially pearer
mexican
(591 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 16:04
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Always referred to as topper where I`m from  (West of Ireland ) 
scrubber
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Posted: 09-May-2008 16:13
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Will always be a topper to me!

You wouldn`t belive the confusion I caused the day after starting a job in Australia when requestion a Pencil, a Topper and Rubber. They had to clarify what the latter 2 were and that I did not need contraception!
paddy in london
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Posted: 09-May-2008 16:13
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Im a teacher in England and I`ve been calling it a topper - the children think its great craic - they never heard of it.

They never heard of a press either  (as in "Get the books out of the press" )  - its a cupboard here ??
two course duffer
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Posted: 09-May-2008 16:45
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Originally posted by paddy in london:
Im a teacher in England and I`ve been calling it a topper - the children think its great craic - they never heard of it.

They never heard of a press either   (as in "Get the books out of the press"  )   - its a cupboard here ??


was always a pointer in my day at the auld hedge schools of north kerry
Yup-outta-that
(684 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 16:48
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A Topper of course.

Anything else is just stupid. They probably call rubbers "erasers".
J New
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Posted: 09-May-2008 17:11
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Originally posted by paddy in london:
Im a teacher in England and I`ve been calling it a topper - the children think its great craic - they never heard of it.

They never heard of a press either  (as in "Get the books out of the press"  )  - its a cupboard here ??


Paddy, Another term that will confuse an English person is: "Take it handy"
The Cats Meow
(570 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 17:15
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This is weird.

My daughter was doing some homework the other evening and the top of the pencil broke. I asked her "where is your topper?" and I got laughed at. I`ll convert her yet, then her class, then her school. Bring back the topper I say.
JoNinety
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Posted: 09-May-2008 17:17
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Ye`re some lot of West Brits. We called it a bioróir.
FearDubh
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Posted: 09-May-2008 17:41
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Originally posted by J New:


Paddy, Another term that will confuse an English person is: "Take it handy"

Yeah, have puzzled a few brits with that , or "Go Handy" !!
beaugosse
(637 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 17:43
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Originally posted by Dig Dagga Dave:
Never heard of a "Topper" - was always called a pencil parer ... or sometimes a sharpener.


Agreed!
The Brewery Horse
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Posted: 09-May-2008 18:21
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Topper.

END OF.

D`ye hear me yis fookers?

Yaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh
Finty
(1,218 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 18:25
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Parer to me and i`m a Cork Man
About a Bicycle
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Posted: 09-May-2008 20:11
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Originally posted by scrubber:
Will always be a topper to me!

You wouldn`t belive the confusion I caused the day after starting a job in Australia when requestion a Pencil, a Topper and Rubber. They had to clarify what the latter 2 were and that I did not need contraception!

I take it, given your requests, there was no mouse-mat going and you didn`t need to get the security ID photo taken.

I`d be a topper man myself.

When it comes to pencils.

And, I suppose I have to add, seeing as the `topper` word is up in AFR lights at the moment, my late mother, in moments of obvious weakness, would call me `a pure topper`.

She was a Clare woman, but I don`t know if that was a Clare expression or not.
googley eye
(464 Posts)
Posted: 09-May-2008 22:15
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Its definitely a topper in Waterford anyway

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