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A New Club for me as well then

Googled W.G.A.S. - could this be you???

http://www.youtube.com/user/Cristofer7

Thanks for all the great replies; the poll has been much closer than I thought. I half expected I might be on my own with this but currently honours are even.

Like Nick, I don’t like the use of xxxMOG to describe the regional MSCC centres (actually I’m not keen on “centre” either but we’ll bypass that for now). Peter’s belief that MOG stands for “Morgan Owners’ Group” is interesting … I don’t think that’s true but from now on I’ll pretend it is so that gets over one problem. I’m still not sure I like it as a magazine title though.

Which came first, Morris or Morgan? Sadly the OED doesn’t help; it only has cat and the now obsolete wench as definitions. It’s interesting that Easter cites a use of Mog by his father that predates the Morris Minor. I knew of the term for the Minor long before I heard it applied to Morgans so for me at least the prior usage applies. (By the same token I am always irritated whenever I hear someone talk of going to the “chippie” for lunch, why would you go to a carpenter for food?)

I like the idea, again from Peter, of calling the car “Monty”. OK, so it’s no shorter than “Morgan” but “driving the Monty down to Monte” certainly has the right ring to it.

As I said in the opening post, my main objection is that Mog is such a puny little word, “twee” as Nick describes it, that really doesn’t do the marque justice. I asked that someone convince me otherwise in this regard and I have to say that so far nobody has.

Jeremy Clarkson in his review of the three-wheeler said that after five minutes behind the wheel he started to believe he might be Kenneth More. Given the number of Morgan drivers I see with flying jackets I’d say he wasn’t alone, and I agree. A Morgan is for Spitfire pilots … leave the Mogs for district nurses!

Thanks all.

~iw

Mog number plates are just sooooooooooooo passe;
TOK numberplates for the discerning ! (!!!!)
living dangerously......

Just occurred to me that I refer to my tin top Mercedes as the Merc. That's always worked for me

Wouldn't Merc be "Mec"?

The first Morris Minor came in 1928. Morris were founded in 1910, but finding the first reference to Moggie or Mog will take quite some research - and not worth the effort unless you can stumble over it in a club magazine from way back.

Right then ... Tomorrow I shall go for a spin in the Morg

After all the talk, I remembered a friend used to call Morris Minors, 'Moggie Minors'. Did a google on that term and got heaps of them.

As said 'Mog', though returns Morgans.

My mother calls it "The Morg"...........

But then......

She named me David because it can't be shortened.

And that's a TM fact.

Just another slant for the topic


[b]Morgan meaning and name origin[/b]

Morgan \m(o)-rgan, mor-gan\ as a girl's name (also used as boy's name Morgan), is pronounced MOR-gen. It is of Welsh and Old English origin, and the meaning of Morgan is "circling sea or great brightness; bright or white sea dweller". The given meanings suggest the magical machinations of King Arthur's jealous sister, Morgan le Fay. Usage for girls increased during the 1980s, probably due to actress Morgan Fairchild. Morgaine and Morgayne are medieval Irish forms.

[b]Morgan has 10 variant forms: Morgaine, Morgana, Morgance, Morgane, Morganica, Morgann, Morganne, Morgayne, Morgen and Morgin.[/b]

Baby names that sound like Morgan are Margeen and Marghanita.

I vaguely know a boy called Morgan, I guess he's now about 12. If he's not lost it, I gave him a wearable Morgan badge as a baby (via his parents) and as it was a Clarrie Coombs article, now irreplacable.