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Not quite Pedants Corner, but perhaps worth a ponder?

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phoenix Sun 10-May-20 15:35:33

Hello all, good wishes to you.

Just listening to a P.G. Wodehouse thing on Radio 4, and I realise that there are words that one rarely heard these days!

Beastly

Frightfully

Cad

Odd, isn't it, how words seem to drop out of usage?

I would have added "ghastly" but we do have a friend who uses it!

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JackyB Mon 11-May-20 08:04:49

I remember the other girls laughing at school at a new girl who had just arrived and saying something was "jolly splendid"!

So that was infra dig already back in the 60s.

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Gaunt47 Mon 11-May-20 08:31:21

Not on your nelly.
Or was that just a London thing?

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grandtanteJE65 Sun 17-May-20 11:36:44

Not on your nelly, was used in Glasgow too.

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Parsley3 Sun 17-May-20 12:03:41

Gordon Bennet! I don’t hear that expression so much these days.
My grandmother would not allow me to say Blimey! because she associated it with Blind Me.

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Aldom Thu 11-Jun-20 11:46:22

Cove, meaning a person. Always used by my husband (public school) and guinea gold, to describe a truly good person.

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eazybee Thu 11-Jun-20 12:28:10

Chums; I have a friend, late eighties, who uses it regularly.

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Nortsat Thu 11-Jun-20 12:35:17

My (now deceased) Uncle Ronnie, usually added ‘what’ at the end of his sentences.

‘Shall we have a drink, what?’ Or as he enjoyed my mother’s cooking he would say ‘Delicious lunch, what’.

You never hear people use the word ‘what’ in that way, nowadays.

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