The Caving Alphabet

[Laurie]

Down, Descent, Draught (as in beer or otherwise), Dangle, Dread(ful), Danger(ous)...

 

[andys]

Drinking!

 

[pwhole]

Dope 

 

[langcliffe]

Dodgy bolts.

 

[Graigwen]

Dig; Digging; Diggers.

 

[Fishes]

Desperate, deviation

 

[Ian P]

Deep. Dark, Damp, Dismal, Dirty,

 

[skimble]

duck, dive, drill, decorations, Derbyshire key

 

[Fishes]

Disto, draught

 

[ZombieCake]

Dank

 

[Fishes]

Why does damp sometimes mean a duck, or something involving diving gear?

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Doline, dripstone, dolomite, Devonian.

 

[Fulk]

dripstone

 

[Inferus]

Decorated. Divers. Depth. Disto. Descent. Different.

 

[ZombieCake]

Diggy Diggy Hole 

 

[Duncan Price]

There is already: https://youtu.be/r2sqyG9mB1c

Here's the words which I found on my computer.  We used to sing it in the '80s at Birmingham Uni SS.

The caver's alphabet song.

A?s for the Aven, so high and so wide,
B?s for the Belay to which we are tied,
C?s for the C-links which the ladder is set
and D?s for the Duck that is long and so wet.

Singing, merrily...merrily...so merrily cave we!
No mor-tal on Earth like a caver can be!
Climb-away, crawl-away all the day long:
For a caver and his Mars Bar there?s nothing goes wrong.

E?s for the Exit, that?s so far away,
F?s for the F*cker who dropped the belay,
G?s for the Gour pools we wash ourselves in
and H is for the Helectites we love to kick in.

chorus

I?s for the Eye-bolt, that?s set in the wall,
J?s for the Jerk when some poor bugger falls,
K?s for the Krabs on which we depend,
and L?s for the Ladder on which we descend.

chorus

M?s for the Mud, of which there?s too much,
N?s for the Neoprene, that splits at the crutch,
O?s for the Orifice through we do piss,
and P?s for the Piss which comes through the orifice.

chorus

Q?s for the Queue at the foot of the climb,
R?s for the Rift where we spent so much time,
S?s for the Sump which comes at the end,
and T?s for the Tackle on which we depend.

chorus

U?s for the Underground for which we do crave,
V?s for the Vandals who muck up our caves,
W?s for the Women of whom there are some,
and X Y & Z you can stick up your bum!

chorus

 

[Pegasus]

Diggy Diggy Hole

 

[yrammy]

Down Down Deeper and Down da da da da

 

[Caver Keith]

What an imaginative lot you are!

For me yesterday's favourites have got to be Dank and Down Down Deeper and Down. The day before it was Cake of course.

Today's letter is E.
E is for ...

 

[mikem]

Eeyore (one of our diggers who's good on the haul)