Words you don’t hear much these days
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I’ll start:
Davenport
@Steve-Miller and also, Chesterfield
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I’ll see your Chesterfield and raise you a divan!
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Oh! I like swank!
Andy will wonder but we don’t use it much here -Posh!
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Posh very commonly used here (often together with the ubiquitous Becks). Chesterfield and divan are standard words in shops.
London rhyming slang and many localised words are less used and vanishing it seems. Probably due to the Internet and globalisation.
Rapscallion
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Posh very commonly used here (often together with the ubiquitous Becks). Chesterfield and divan are standard words in shops.
London rhyming slang and many localised words are less used and vanishing it seems. Probably due to the Internet and globalisation.
Rapscallion
@AndyD said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
London rhyming slang and many localised words are less used and vanishing it seems.
Oh no! That would be unfortunate!
I used to use the word “swank,” well more often “swanky,” rather frequently…. Like maybe when I was a college student?? These days it’s more like to be “fancy.”
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@AndyD - That's a word I use at least once a year, on the first Saturday in May.
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Muddle is actually the correct term for mashing and mixing. It’s standard barkeeper’s usage.
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Chiapet? Is that even a word?
I've been known to use salad days, but I never knew it was from Shakespeare.
I'd never heard the term "bespoke" in the US, but it seems to be slowly working it's way into everyday speech here.Another word I recently used in a text was "addlepated " I just think those kinds of terms are fun!
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Velocipede.
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Chiapet? Is that even a word?
I've been known to use salad days, but I never knew it was from Shakespeare.
I'd never heard the term "bespoke" in the US, but it seems to be slowly working it's way into everyday speech here.Another word I recently used in a text was "addlepated " I just think those kinds of terms are fun!
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Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin. Although he doesn’t seem to be finishing up his Song of Ice and Fire series, so maybe he’s not using it any more, either.
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@AdagioM said in Words you don’t hear much these days:
Amongst. Unless you’re George R. R. Martin.
Or wtg.
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I actually say both among and amongst. And while and whilst.
I also pronounce either and neither as eye-ther and nye-there instead of ee-ther and nee-ther. Mom had an English boss when she worked in the DP camp in Germany after WWII. I think she picked up some of her pronunciation from being around him. And I from her.
