Prolly

The US is a huge country, with many different accents

I like brolly, too.

What on earth is wrong with brolly!!

?GagaJo
Not keen on Probs either.

I thought Americans pronounced it 'pra-ba-blee'.

Americans do actually pronounce it "prolly". So some actually spell it like that (I presume with their tongues in their cheeks).

I have never ever heard prolly before and never want to hear it again. Awful word! I hate brolly as well. What's wrong with umbrella? My mother used to say gamp for umbrella. Couldn't stand that either.

I love the old silly songs.

?Don't remember that bit MissAdventure

Oh a grasshopper sitting on a railway track, singing polly wolly doodle all the day....

Baggs

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

Id heard that too. Googling it brought it back to me.
Fare thee well, Fare thee well
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm going to Lousianna for to see my Susi - - anna
Singing Polly wolli Doodle all the day.

Prolly had been around for years.
It's just silly internet language.

My Niece calls her Daughter Prinny. Short for Princess. I hate it !

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.

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

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

Baggs

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

No

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

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.

Did you mean ‘Happy Ever After’ Georgesgran ?

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

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?

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.

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?

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.