The lingua franca

A certain Mr Bradshaw, occasionally of these parts, coined the term “welf” to describe our noble trade.

I just looked it up on Urban Dictionary and I think we’d best leave it! The term will never cross my lips again.

M’kay?

I don’t know, lots of words have different meanings in America.  A British welf can still be a practitioner of the noble art

You had me worried for a moment, the last two letters were making me nervous, while still being overwhelmingly curious about what the first two might mean.  But I was on the wrong track entirely!

The original perpetrator had probably tried to read the mixed age Move to UC regs.

I see that Mr Bradshaw has secured a well earned promotion and is now dining at the top table. Hope that you are still gonna be shaking your thang on the Clocktower dance floor next week with us plebs, Ryan?

My own research on ‘welf’ took me to Wikipedia, where I was fascinated to learn that The House of Welf is a European dynasty that has included many German and British monarchs from the 11th to 20th century and Emperor Ivan VI of Russia in the 18th century. The originally Franconian family from the Meuse-Moselle area was closely related to the imperial family of the Carolingians. Dontchaknow?