What makes me cringe is the middle class or the posh trying to get down with the natives and attempting the glottal stop ( or should I say glo'al stop). Tony Blair was a perfectly cringeworthy example. He'd be as well attempting Dahalo..
Ope is an odd one @raisingirl. Is it to do with opening or similar? Maybe we should have a daft thread about different names/words from different parts of the country. Far too jolly for this thread...
The jury's out whether it's from 'opening' or from a Kernewek word
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I saw Penny Morduant on TV earlier today seemingly trying to us the glottal stop and then forgetting. Needs more practice. Slight variation but my wife used to work with Anna and with Hannah. Unfortunately my wife also has the annoying habit of dropping 'H's and got annoyed with me when I didn't realise she was referring to Hannah.
To be honest B3 I was wondering what pansyface does at weekends that needs a full page per day. My week to view has equal spaces. Come on fess up missus.
No, that's the power of Covid. Shipping was stuffed - container pricing went up through the roof as containers were in the wrong locations. Ports that handled containers couldn't take more in and then had/have massive issues getting containers back where they should be.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary,JAG is a rocky outcrop,or something uneven and projects outwards. I say vaccination or Vax, only cos the meanies stopped us having "little pricks"!!! Someone was complaining on another site,that "older people" use abbreviations in texts, apparently "no-one" under 30 has this annoying habit. Well,I cannot stand it when people on this very site,say something is "icky or gives them the "ick", kindly say "nauseous" even "sick"!!!
@Nanny Beach, I totally agree with you about icky. To my mind most of the invented words ending with the ‘ee’ sound come across as more puerile than familiar. I would also put in the list newbie, MaccyD, cutesy, veggie and biggie.
On the subject of text abbreviations, I wonder how frantically busy these people’s lives must be that they cannot afford the few seconds it takes to type you/great/before etc rather than u/gr8/b4. Over the course of a decade they have probably saved 15 minutes. On January 1st 2030 will they have a little lie-in?
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Tony Blair was a perfectly cringeworthy example. He'd be as well attempting Dahalo..
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”