Prolly

It's not an error. It's slang.

Lost count of the number of people I’ve heard who say skelinton and chimley ( skeleton and chimney)? Mostly in the London area though not all.

The first place I saw it was in a ‘Just William’ book.

Oh yes, William always said prolly, well remembered Bloss

A prolific and well known GN poster used it yesterday!

The one which annoys me is "naice" for an area. Why not just say you live in a pleasant middle class suburb!

That brought back memories Blossoming I loved Just William.

biglouis

The one which annoys me is "naice" for an area. Why not just say you live in a pleasant middle class suburb!

It may be because 'naice' isn't always pleasant middle class.

We always say ‘nice’ when confronted by something that isn’t ‘nice’ .

I love prolly. Also brolly. And collywollydoodlealltheday.

Where is that last from? Anyone?

PS Not for formal use obv, but fine for casual social media.

It's a song apparently. I've no idea where or when I heard it.

Baggs

PS Not for formal use obv, but fine for casual social media.

Surely that’s the thin edge of the wedge. If kids keep saying and writing prolly it will eventually be accepted into our language, quite wrongly in my view..

Why? Where does it end? Shall we start accepting a boarder between Scotland and England or definately just because they are commonly used wrongly.

Baggs

I love prolly. Also brolly. And collywollydoodlealltheday.

Where is that last from? Anyone?

You can Google it under Polly Wolly Doodle Baggs

You see the problem with misspellings now?

biglouis

The one which annoys me is "naice" for an area. Why not just say you live in a pleasant middle class suburb!

“Naice” I believe became popular from a Mumsnet thread regarding a shopping list found in a supermarket trolly listing naice ham.

It has overtones of pretentiousness, aspiring to a higher class whilst not being part of it.

Years ago - 50? - there was a sitcom about a middle aged married couple - a bit like Keeping up Appearances. The lady always thought she was a bit better than others and ‘naice’ was her word. Can anyone remember it?

Naice is akin to people who think it's witty to say Horrids instead of Harrods!

Did you mean ‘Happy Ever After’ Georgesgran ?

Esspee

Baggs

I love prolly. Also brolly. And collywollydoodlealltheday.

Where is that last from? Anyone?

You can Google it under Polly Wolly Doodle Baggs

You see the problem with misspellings now?

Nope. I see I mis-remembered something I heard at some time in my life. Not really a major problem. In fact, not a problem at all.

And if prolly is eventually adopted, so what? Language evolves. Always has. Always will.

I learned a new to me, but old, word today. The spindrift on the loch just now (or "the noo" as some Scots say) is amazing. I knew the word spindrift, but I learned it comes from an older word with the same meaning: spoom. Language is fun and learning or inventing new words is too.

PS I just looked at my ggl history and I DID ggl (advert avoidance tactic being employed here) the phrase under polly wolly..... Maybe my initial writing of it was a typo.

PPS espee, do you ever use the word brolly? Just wondering, not judging ?

Baggs

PPS espee, do you ever use the word brolly? Just wondering, not judging ?

No

I have never seen prolly in a US based message room.

The "lly" being added to words sounds British to me - telly, prolly, pressie,....

Language evolves anyway, not always in ways everybody likes

Esspee

Baggs

PPS espee, do you ever use the word brolly? Just wondering, not judging ?

No

?

Among ourselves we sometimes use Minibaggs's toddler word for umbrella: umblanna

Juliet27 - no, not Happy Ever After. That was Terry Scott/June Whitfield as middle aged and middle class. What I remember was someone more like a Hilda Baker type character, putting on what she thought was a posh accent to talk to strangers.