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Related: About this forumOyez, Oyez, Oyez!
Came across this Town Crier in Camden Town today. Gotta love the juxtaposition of a centuries old tradition in an modern urban landscape. Wishing passers-by a Happy New Year. Thought I would pass it on!
Ring Bell...''Oyez, Oyez, Oyez! Happy New Year!''
(PS - if you are interested the word "Oyez" means "hear ye," which is a call for silence and attention. Oyez is from an Anglo-Norman word for listen.)
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Oyez, Oyez, Oyez! (Original Post)
Soph0571
Dec 2021
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Love the red coat! I'm curious, is the Town Crier a paid or honorary position?
Ziggysmom
Jan 2022
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gab13by13
(21,349 posts)1. Here Here!
I worked with a bloke from Birmingham in Santiago, Chile. I couldn't understand a lot of what he said, I understood the Chileans better and I know little Spanish. Love the language though, so descriptive. When we told him to speak English he told us that England had the language first, Americans effed it up.
Happy New Year.
StarryNite
(9,446 posts)2. That's cute!
Callalily
(14,889 posts)3. I would LOVE this job!
And thanks for the explanations, very interesting
ShazzieB
(16,411 posts)4. This Camden Town?
That Camden town
Ziggysmom
(3,407 posts)5. Love the red coat! I'm curious, is the Town Crier a paid or honorary position?
What a great tradition.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)7. I think they are paid per appearance n/t
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,168 posts)8. In Spanish it would be Oye!
Forgive me, but I got the punctuation wrong. There would be an upside down exclamation point at the beginning.