Dreaded Lurgy!

Chicken Pox strikesWell, we’ve been waiting for it to happen as nearly every other child in Glenview nursery has had it. Morgan has got chicken pox! Typical really as we;ve got James and Donna’s wedding this weekend in the Lake District so fingers crossed he’s not too spotty for the photos and not feeling to ill. So far he seems OK although the spots are coming think and fast so we’ll have to wait and see how bad it gets. He’s not sleeping to well either and last night I ended up in his toddler bed with him!…..not a lots of room but at least someone got a bit of sleep (Al probably!).

Hope you’re feeling better soon Morgan xxx

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  1. Avatar forComment Author Alan says:

    Where did the term Dreaded Lurgy come from??

    Well it came from an episode the 1950s radio show the Goon Show and it looks as though the phrase was made up by Spike Milligan. Some think that it is a corruption of the word “allergy” but this is not supported by the use of the hard ‘g’ in Lurgy (rhyming with Fergie), as allergy has a softer ‘g’ sound.

    There is also a theory that it is based on the Northern English dialectic phrase “fever-lurgy” meaning lazy or idle, but no one seems to know for sure where the word came from, just that it was first heard in the Goon Show.

    The episode in 1954 entitled ‘Lurgi Strikes Britain’ was about a highly infectious disease called the Dreaded Lurgi, one of the symptoms of which was an uncontrollable urge to shout ‘EEEEE-Yackaboo!’ without realising it. It turned out that the diseases was actually fictitious and a ruse invented by the criminals in order to sell brass band instruments.

    The popularity of the show meant that the phrase ‘Dreaded Lurgy’ soon caught on and is now used as slang for any unspecified contagious disease

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