Once we’ve reached the plains, we’ll board the support vehicle and continue our journey to Nha Trang. The descent is on wide sweeping roads and loses 1500m in vertical height over 30kms and is a real treat. What goes up, must come down and from here we continue on the bikes with a stunning downhill to the valley floor. The route this morning heads through some stunning scenery, and sees us riding deep in the Central Highlands through a mix of agricultural land, coffee plantations and lush tropical forest.Īlthough the route contains a number of climbs, the stunning scenery throughout will spur you along, as will the thoughts of another delicious lunch that will be taken at the top of the final climb. Time to head to the coast! Riding straight from the hotel, we’re soon climbing gently out of town. Whilst the French colonialists are long gone, Dalat still retains its colonial charm with a large number of magnificent villas reminding us of days gone by. This former French colonial hill station was founded over 100 years ago, as a resort town to escape the humidity of the coast. At the end of the ride we transfer up into the higher reaches of the Central Highlands and our overnight destination of Dalat.Īlong the way, we pass-by an abundance of coffee and tea plantations as well as flower gardens and pine forests. This rural route whilst remarkably quiet does have a few pre-lunch hills to test the legs.Īfter lunch at a small roadside café specialising in noodle soup, we’ll be back on our bikes and return to the quiet rural roads, that are fortunately flatter than those we encountered earlier in the day. It is more probable that “skedaddle” is rooted in the Irish word “sgedadol,” meaning “scattered,” or the Scots word “”skiddle,” meaning “to spill or scatter.” Given the Scots-Irish heritage of many of the states central to the Civil War, these both seem like reasonable bets to me.Starting from the hotel, our initial cycling sees us following the coastline before we turn inland into the foothills of the Central Highlands. There are theories that attempt to trace “skedaddle” to various Swedish or Danish words but fail on lack of evidence. The relatively sudden appearance of “skedaddle” as a fully-formed word, with no known ancestors in English, tends to argue for its importation from another language. There are a number of theories about the origin of “skedaddle,” but no definite answer to the puzzle. In military use there were definite overtones of cowardice under fire in “skedaddle,” but as the word quickly percolated into civilian usage, it came to mean simply “to leave quickly” or “to run away.”
“Skedaddle” first appeared in written accounts of battles in that war, used to mean “to retreat quickly to flee” (“As soon as the rebs saw our red breeches … coming through the woods they skedaddled,” 1862). There’s also the fact that the word in question is actually spelled “skedaddle,” and its spelling has been fairly constant since it came into use during the American Civil War. Too many people would have to simultaneously adopt that usage for it to make any sense to anyone. It’s just not the way the language works. But while some English words have been formed by combining other words (“motel” from “motor hotel,” for instance), I can’t think of an instance of an entire phrase (such as “Let’s get out of here”) being slurred into a single word. While you were reading that paragraph, I was softly repeating “scidattle” over and over to myself, and after awhile it did start to sound a bit like “let’s get out of here,” especially if you say it very quickly with a Brooklyn accent. But just last week I watched Pokie attack a tree that hadn’t moved in at least ten years and didn’t seem to be menacing anyone, so we may have to rethink that bargain.
We originally let these two freeloaders, Brownie and Pokie, live here on the assumption that they would provide some basic security.
#SKEDADDLE SOUND EFFECT PLUS#
By the way, “you guys” really doesn’t apply in this case, because it’s just me and a bunch of illiterate cats here, plus two dogs who are of no use at all unless your heart’s desire is to find the nearest dead possum. If my hypothesis is incorrect, can you guys find out where “scidattle” came from? Boy, I sure hope so. Dear Word Detective: I’m wondering if the slang word “scidattle,” as is “let’s scidattle” or “time to scidattle,” may originate from a shortened version of “let’s get out of here,” which, when said quickly, has a similar sound and meaning.
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