origins of 'kludge'

[gordonjcp at gjcp.net]

>
> On 30/03/2005, at 6:01 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
>> Doubtless from the Scots word "cludgie", meaning outside toilet.
>> Since we don't have those any more, it refers to any rather squalid
>> toilet - think about the bookmaker scene in Trainspotting.
>
> You mean you actually understand the dialog in Trainspotting - my
> housekeeper who originally comes from  Glasgow admits she can't
> understand much of the dialog :-)

The film is set in Edinburgh, and most of the actors are from Edinburgh. 
The people from the, uhm, less salubrious parts of Edinburgh (most of it,
really) have a particularly impenetrable accent.

Where I come from, up the far north-west, there isn't really an accent at
all.  Everyone thinks I was either a BBC newsreader or I went to a posh
school (I did neither).

The bit in the club where it was subtitles was because they were almost
inaudible over the music *and* talking in a heavy dialect.

Gordon.