Jobbly Jock

Alarm itself goes back to the italian ala arme to arms, because it was a cry to rouse soldiers and tell them that they needed quickly to arm themselves. Another thing that might wake you up is a jobbly jock, which is a lovely old dialect word. I live in london, and therefore on the towards heathrow airport, and it's the aeroplanes that wake me up from six a m. If you're having lunch with the queen and an aeroplane goes over, she can tell you, oh, yes, that's a seven, four seven. Thatis amusing. And does it as a kind of apiece.

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