Words I Have Never Used

[bainbrig]

Just pondering what ‘modern’ words I never use, and never would.

1) Hi.
Hello, I’ll say, or good morning, good day, pleased to meet you, etc, but never “Hi”.

2) Poo (or Poop)
I might have used the word when I was in Primary School, but not since. I’ll use the ‘old’ terms, and if talking to a medic might say faeces or defecate, but never, ever Poo.

3) Wow.
No, I did use it once when the alternative might have needed asterisks, but it’s not part of my everyday speech.

4) Oh My God (or OMG, or Oh My Days, or any other soft non-religious euphemism).
Among friends, I might use some Anglo-Saxon term instead.

5) Awesome.
No further comment necessary.

I imagine you can add many to my list.

BB

[gness]

Awwww......bless......

e.g...... Gness...how's your Mum?

Getting worse by the day.

Awww...bless.....


Grrrrrr...... :-)

[bainbrig]

It’s not ‘hi’ that is so offensive, it’s the fact that people often use NO other greeting. They never say ‘Hello’, ‘Good morning’, ‘Pleased to see you’, et cetera, and it strikes me they haven’t engaged their brains, just click-whirr-‘Hi’.

I want people to think before speaking, all the time!

[bainbrig]

And even ‘poo’ has its place - in the school playground. But not between grown-ups.

[Denton]

Laters,pees me off.

[bainbrig]

Americans saying “I was ***” meaning ***-off, not drunk.

[bainbrig]

Blimey, nanny, leave it out.

Americans saying “I was p1$$ed” meaning “p1$$ed-off”, not drunk. (Let’s see if this gets through).

[retrocop]

There was a wonderful word that an ABer posted in the good old days before this site was vandalised to the state it is now.. It was in 'Phrases and Sayings'
It was ,I think, a word like mug swogglers or something equally as stupid. To do with politics similar to jerrymandering me thinks.

[Muntin]

So many horrors. Antidisistablishment came to the Anglican Church in Wales about 1926, had been decided earlier but was delayed due to other larger events. And there was a fuss about the transfer of investments. I am sure so many of you wanted to know that.
The difference between 'sow', [for seeds] and 'plant' [for plants] seems to be breaking down [composting?]. I have heard people who surely know better talk about 'planting seeds'.
And 'poo'. We know a woman who thinks of herself as a farmer talking about 'sheep poo'.

[Peter Pedant]

// Antidisistablishment came to the Anglican Church in Wales about 1926, //

er isnt that Disestablishment ?
and the twenty year gap would be due to antidisestablishmentarianism - they lost

and at the time wasnt it called the Church of Wales? which is kinda why we didnt really understand it.....

[Peter Pedant]

// 'sow', [for seeds] and 'plant' [for plants] seems to be breaking down [composting?]. I have heard people who surely know better talk about 'planting seeds'.

oh I thought sow was just throwing the stuff on the ground - like Marianne ( the sower ) does on earlier French stamps - throw it wide and it is called - - - broadcasting.

and if you sudduv bent down and put it in the ground ( coffee beans spring to mind) than it is planted - um not in the drug sense

[AuntLydia]

Nobody I know says 'brew' or 'butty' and if I got any more north I
would be in Scotland. These northern caricatures are so last season. They may say it in Coronation street but they are soft southerners to us folk up here lol!

[Mamyalynne]

That will be the reason then, I grew up in a strip cartoon and am still surrounded by those caricatures.

Still, all is tasty and quenching whatever we call it.

[Muntin]

P P is right of course. Now known as The Church in Wales.

[Eve]

I'm in the north and hear brew all the time. More barms than butties here though. Can't beat a bacon barm and a brew!

[tonyav]

Bacon butty and brew are common words where I live, especially around breakfast time.

[Mamyalynne]

Bread terms really do tell folk where you are from, always struggle on holiday and have had howls of laughter asking for barm cakes or oven bottoms when they wanted to sell me baps or rolls.

[pastafreak]

bainbrig...regarding how Americans might use language...
// The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. //
It is what it is...maybe "get over it". ;-)). Is it that big a deal?

[AuntLydia]

You seem to have a bee in't bonnet mammylynne. ;-D

Interested to know where 'up north' is to some of you darn sarfers. Also not everyone who lives in the north is common.

[pastafreak]

And then there are the English..."barm and brew"...??? WHAT??

[AuntLydia]

My favorite North American word is 'Fanny Pack' mainly as its said with no knowledge what so ever of the meaning in the UK. Also I had a friend that would call all children affectionately you little 'bug++r until I told her what it meant lol!