Just realised bork is not spelled bork

[merryhouse]

Meandering mind suddenly put two threads together.

The word "balk", frequently encountered in my reading, which indicates a feeling of revulsion is not pronounced like a slightly-mangled "bulk" but actually rhymes with walk and talk.

The word "bork" which I have heard in various places is not, as I had assumed, dialectal and is not actually spelled that way.

I've been reading for 48 years

Boak is retching
Baulk is gobsmacked/ repulsed

That’s what I think anyway?

Icelandic singer with weird buns?

In my accent baulk. Rhymes with both walk and talk. in none of them is the l pronounced in full its, more half at between an I and an r. Bit I can't say owl with birds more owul. It's regional not a speech impediment

Smol puppers do borks

Our family have long called when you start to talk and a burp comes out a " bork".

Not wanting to out you, goose - but is this one of your home videos?

Isn't it what the Swedish Chef says?

Bork is broken, but borken - you bork something, you break it IYSWIM. It's like an autological typo. Or so I always thought, anyway!

Extract from the Oxford Dictionary.

Bork bork.

I’d use baulk/balk as hesitating or resisting something, and bork as the noise a good boi pupper makes (sorry) or if something is broken eg “I baulked at paying so much for something that is clearly borked - oh look a puppy bork bork”

@TrollTheRespawnJeremy

A bork is the noise a small dog makes yes?

Yes I think that “the code/computer is borked” derives from the assumption that the code/computer is broken so fundamentally that even the spelling and grammar of the word “broken” itself is broken.

Judge Bork’s shenanigans also come into the mix.

Balk/baulk (meaning to resist or refuse) have an L sound in my pronounciation, unlike walk and talk which are indistinguishable from w-or-k and t-or-k when I say them.

Auto correct is making this thread even more confusing than it already might have been.

I initially thought you'd confused the spelling of Bjork, the Icelandic singer.

😕

I find that English people often insert random Rs in to words.

No idea why.

I thought it was baulk and it's pronounced more like bolk or as PP said better ball-k.

He baulked at the idea.

I imagine a wretch or grimace goes with it.

Balk rhymes with walk and talk and it means to refuse something, or stop suddenly, like a horse refusing a jump or someone being led astray suddenly finding their conscience and saying no to something that crosses the line.

Then there's baulk which sounds the same and means a massive piece of timber - or it can mean what balk means!

Balk does not rhyme with walk and talk.

@WhereverIGoddamnLike

Balk does not rhyme with walk and talk.

I agree. I dont sound the 'l' in walk and talk but I do in balk

@WhereverIGoddamnLike Is your name an homage to Chrisjen?

This is a confusing thread.
Balk is a verb. It means refuse to do something.
Boak means 'ugh' to the extent it makes you feel sick
I've never heard of bork except as a recent, silly internet word for a cute bark from a little dog.

I might baulk at a price and a horse might baulk at a jump.
But I doubt that anybody over the age of 15 either boaks/borks.

Smol puppers do borks

^ I met a "smol pupper". I misheard and called it Porky for ages. It was called Borky, because, well, you can guess the rest.

Bork is slang for something broken