Are Bakers Dozens Now A Measure From History?

[sandyRoe]

Have they joined the flagon and the firkin in obsolescence?

[Canary42]

... and the florin 😀

[Hopkirk]

Some kids today don't know what a dozen is.

[jourdain2]

Well then, it is up to society generally to keep these old terms going.  Otherwise a lot of older literature will become inaccessible.

[Canary42]

Quite a bit of old literature has been tainted by the queers taking over the word gay.

[Bazile]

How useful is the 'baker's dozen ' in everyday speech ?

[jno]

as we can no longer give Tesco's a horsewhipping in the town square for skimping on the flour and yeast, there's probably no longer much use for the phrase.

[douglas9401]

"Otherwise a lot of older literature will become inaccessible. "

Gadzooks! I'll warrant, sirrah, that such musings are beyond the pale, without merit.

Why just yestreen I sent a lad to buy a plug of shag so I could take a pipe in the gloaming.

Phshaw and fie.

[10ClarionSt]

The firkin?

Christmas comes but once a firkin.

And when it comes, we're firkin wirkin.

[Peter Pedant]

Quite a bit of old literature has been tainted by the queers taking over the word gay.

no we have had this before - but luckily no one reads my posts - often even before deleting them haw haw haw

gay has always had a louche meaning - When Gloriana called Drake a " gay dog" - she was not referring to his habit: " he whistleth all the live long day"

but.... something else

[douglas9401]

He was noted for bowling up to a jack right enough.

[ToraToraTora]

a firkin is still used for real ale.

[douglas9401]

Pssst, Sandy, somebody's taking this seriously. Just saying.