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Quote Willo at 27 Aug 2015 4.08pm
Keep hearing the word "Cool" and it certainly wasn't referring to the weather. Everything appears to be "Cool" these days. "Cool" this, "Cool" that, "Cool" the other ! Clearly a modern fad. Edited by Willo (27 Aug 2015 4.09pm) I heartily concur with your sentiments. I'm absolutely flabbergasted 'piffle', 'hogwash' and 'brickbats' are not in common usage among our youth.
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Quote Part Time James at 27 Aug 2015 4.13pm
Quote Willo at 27 Aug 2015 4.08pm
Keep hearing the word "Cool" and it certainly wasn't referring to the weather. Everything appears to be "Cool" these days. "Cool" this, "Cool" that, "Cool" the other ! Clearly a modern fad. Edited by Willo (27 Aug 2015 4.09pm) "Radical" as well. Not just in terms of Muslin clerics either. Sometimes people say the new skateboard they bought is "totally radical".
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Quote fledgling at 28 Aug 2015 1.31pm
Quote Willo at 27 Aug 2015 4.08pm
Keep hearing the word "Cool" and it certainly wasn't referring to the weather. Everything appears to be "Cool" these days. "Cool" this, "Cool" that, "Cool" the other ! Clearly a modern fad. Edited by Willo (27 Aug 2015 4.09pm) I heartily concur with your sentiments. I'm absolutely flabbergasted 'piffle', 'hogwash' and 'brickbats' are not in common usage among our youth.
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Quote Mapletree at 28 Aug 2015 1.45pm
Quote fledgling at 28 Aug 2015 1.31pm
Quote Willo at 27 Aug 2015 4.08pm
Keep hearing the word "Cool" and it certainly wasn't referring to the weather. Everything appears to be "Cool" these days. "Cool" this, "Cool" that, "Cool" the other ! Clearly a modern fad. Edited by Willo (27 Aug 2015 4.09pm) I heartily concur with your sentiments. I'm absolutely flabbergasted 'piffle', 'hogwash' and 'brickbats' are not in common usage among our youth.
mongs surely
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Quote Mapletree at 28 Aug 2015 1.45pm
Quote fledgling at 28 Aug 2015 1.31pm
Quote Willo at 27 Aug 2015 4.08pm
Keep hearing the word "Cool" and it certainly wasn't referring to the weather. Everything appears to be "Cool" these days. "Cool" this, "Cool" that, "Cool" the other ! Clearly a modern fad. Edited by Willo (27 Aug 2015 4.09pm) I heartily concur with your sentiments. I'm absolutely flabbergasted 'piffle', 'hogwash' and 'brickbats' are not in common usage among our youth.
I wanted to keep in character and go with the more archaic version... ‘Among’ or ‘amongst’? Among is the earlier word of this pair: according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it first appeared in Old English. The variant form, amongst, is a later development, coming along in the Middle English period. With regard to their meanings, there’s no difference between among and amongst.
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Quote martin2412 at 28 Aug 2015 1.54pm
Quote Mapletree at 28 Aug 2015 1.45pm
Quote fledgling at 28 Aug 2015 1.31pm
Quote Willo at 27 Aug 2015 4.08pm
Keep hearing the word "Cool" and it certainly wasn't referring to the weather. Everything appears to be "Cool" these days. "Cool" this, "Cool" that, "Cool" the other ! Clearly a modern fad. Edited by Willo (27 Aug 2015 4.09pm) I heartily concur with your sentiments. I'm absolutely flabbergasted 'piffle', 'hogwash' and 'brickbats' are not in common usage among our youth.
mongs surely
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Quote Superfly at 27 Aug 2015 5.27pm
Quote Part Time James at 27 Aug 2015 4.13pm
Quote Willo at 27 Aug 2015 4.08pm
Keep hearing the word "Cool" and it certainly wasn't referring to the weather. Everything appears to be "Cool" these days. "Cool" this, "Cool" that, "Cool" the other ! Clearly a modern fad. Edited by Willo (27 Aug 2015 4.09pm) "Radical" as well. Not just in terms of Muslin clerics either. Sometimes people say the new skateboard they bought is "totally radical".
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Quote fledgling at 28 Aug 2015 2.16pm
Quote Mapletree at 28 Aug 2015 1.45pm
Quote fledgling at 28 Aug 2015 1.31pm
Quote Willo at 27 Aug 2015 4.08pm
Keep hearing the word "Cool" and it certainly wasn't referring to the weather. Everything appears to be "Cool" these days. "Cool" this, "Cool" that, "Cool" the other ! Clearly a modern fad. Edited by Willo (27 Aug 2015 4.09pm) I heartily concur with your sentiments. I'm absolutely flabbergasted 'piffle', 'hogwash' and 'brickbats' are not in common usage among our youth.
I wanted to keep in character and go with the more archaic version... ‘Among’ or ‘amongst’? Among is the earlier word of this pair: according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it first appeared in Old English. The variant form, amongst, is a later development, coming along in the Middle English period. With regard to their meanings, there’s no difference between among and amongst.
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There's plenty of misuse of existing words. 'Infer' and 'imply' seem to be interchangeable these days. And 'decimate' means a 10% reduction, not 'total destruction' as its usage now appears to be.
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Quote Cucking Funt at 30 Aug 2015 11.24am
There's plenty of misuse of existing words. 'Infer' and 'imply' seem to be interchangeable these days. And 'decimate' means a 10% reduction, not 'total destruction' as its usage now appears to be.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold... |
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The word "Awesome". I thought its overuse was just a Yank linguistic disease, but it's crept over into UK parlance.
When the time comes, I want die just like my Dad - at peace and asleep. |
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The other day I heard a chap, probably around my age, use the word "Smashing" in terms of being excellent, very good etc. Don't often hear this word in such a context. When I was younger I used to hear the words "Drawing room" to describe what is now a "Lounge".
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