Every time I use this word my children say WHAT?
Aug 4, 2021 15:06:24 #
"While smoking a Chesterfield in bed, I dropped some ashes on the counterpane." That was a long time ago when I was young, and stupid and smoking, before I wisely switched to Newports!
Aug 4, 2021 17:40:39 #
Aug 4, 2021 18:44:31 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
I don't know the percentages, but I have read that even with all the new words from technology and other sources being added to the language, we still only have a small portion of the vocabulary available to us that was available to English speakers and writers in Shakespeare's time. We are constantly enjoined to make our writing as short and plain as possible. Yet we are also told to make it interesting. Mark Twain famously noted that the difference betwen the word that was right and the word that was almost right is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug. Everytime a word drops out of use, we are losing some of the lightening.
Aug 4, 2021 20:12:36 #
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
I'm from South Carolina and over 60 but I ain't never heard the word that I recall. Maybe that is just part of the dialect Y'all speak in Irmo.
Aug 4, 2021 23:16:27 #
tmehrkam wrote:
Never heard it in Texas. But I am only 68 unlike some of you Guys. :-}
so FAR too young to voice your opinion!
Aug 5, 2021 08:04:16 #
Aug 5, 2021 10:01:49 #
davidv
Loc: salt lake city utah
My mother was born1915 and she would just pronounce words wrong, maybe she just pronounced it wrong or you misunderstood her.
Aug 5, 2021 11:21:23 #
Aug 5, 2021 17:56:25 #
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