Words going out of use

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Please and thank you, Don't here them so much nowadays.

At work, I sometimes leave notes for residents, asking them to sort out the mess in their recycling box, or not leave certain items (nappies mostly) in the recycling. I always start the note with "please" and end with "thanks". However, they are often written in slightly sarcastic handwriting. Well, I know it's sarcastic, to anyone else the notes are perfectly polite.

 

[Beebo]

I have just sat in a meeting with someone using the word airplane, instead of aeroplane.
They weren't even American, I wanted to shoot them!

 

[theclaud]

I have just sat in a meeting with someone using the word airplane, instead of aeroplane.
They weren't even American, I wanted to shoot them!

Chill!

 

[asterix]

Chill!

Chillax, even. Chill is so last century.

Mind you, even 'last century' is becoming last century..

 

[Ganymede]

I have just sat in a meeting with someone using the word airplane, instead of aeroplane.
They weren't even American, I wanted to shoot them!

My sister won't let me say "movies" because it's too American. She says the "flicks" which is a dear old word which you don't hear except in the singular ("chick flick" etc).

 

[youngoldbloke]

My sister won't let me say "movies" because it's too American. She says the "flicks" which is a dear old word which you don't hear except in the singular ("chick flick" etc).

- don't hear 'pictures' used in this context either.

 

[pplpilot]

'Nincompoop' Now thats a great word and I try to use it as much as possible. My all time favorite has to be 'Cretin' . Really don't hear them very often.

 

[Chromatic]

I showed this thread to my son.
His reaction was "Christ! Some of it's like Jeremy Clarkson and Giles Brandreth had a horrible love-child of opinion".

He may choose to think that, but I couldn't possibly comment

Give the young scallywag a clipped ear this instant!

 

[Fnaar]

However, they are often written in slightly sarcastic handwriting. Well, I know it's sarcastic, to anyone else the notes are perfectly polite.

I like that

 

[swee'pea99]

Behoves. Excellent word.

 

[accountantpete]

Rapscallion

and also

tatterdemalion (scruffy urchin)

 

[vernon]

http://thelionspart.co.uk/twelfthnight/index.html - I do this every year! So I talk about it quite a lot... (from my replies to this thread I am beginning to think I am an incredibly old-fasioned person....).

I bet you ten bob that you're not.

 

[byegad]

I have just sat in a meeting with someone using the word airplane, instead of aeroplane.
They weren't even American, I wanted to shoot them!

Yes, like Sail boat and race car.

It's SailING Boat and RacING car FFS.

 

[Ganymede]

I bet you ten bob that you're not.

I only deal in groats...

 

[vernon]

Thirty years of living in Yorkshire has removed me from the regional dialect of Tyneside and Durham

Here's some words that I use but rarely hear

skeg - a brief look
gadgie - some minor official like a park keeper
carlins - rabbit poo, it resembles carlin peas which are eaten by pigeons all year round and North Easterners on Carlin Sunday, the Sunday before Palm Sunday
bullets - sweets
spelk - splinter