[News] Old fashioned words you use

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just slips out sometimes in unguarded moments... Dolphinarium

 

[alanfp]

My obsessive refusal to end any sentence in a preposition requires me to use the word 'whom' quite a lot.

Attributed to Winston Churchill:
"This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

 

[jcdenton08]

Just slips out sometimes in unguarded moments... Dolphinarium

In my mind this happens almost like a Tourette’s style outburst. “What’s for dinner tonight love? I really fancy fish and DOLPHINARIUM. Sorry.”

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I often listen to football commentary on the wireless, I expect the linesman to flag an offside and occasionally call our lovely Falmer stadium The Goldstone.

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

I’m off to our local discotheque later.

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Also, I have an elderly relative who always answers the phone with their telephone number. I always used to pick up the phone as a kid and say “Balcombe 600”

 

[zeemeeuw]

Tell you what, it's turned a bit parky again.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Blooming heck

 

[5Ways Gull]

I still use that quaint old word "Batsman" to describe the player holding the bat in Cricket. I keep hearing/reading them referred to as "Batters"!

 

[Taybha]

Cripes
Bartssavedapenalty

 

[backson]

Whoopsadaisy!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Nit twit
Most days my dog gets called this.

 

[Dick Head]

Van Hecke had to miss a match recently because he bumped his knocker.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I still use that quaint old word "Batsman" to describe the player holding the bat in Cricket. I keep hearing/reading them referred to as "Batters"!

To be fair, "batter" goes back to the 1700s (apparently, but even in the absence of an actual source for that it sounds like the sort of thing that people think are Americanisms but are actually just old words) https://www.cricket.co.uk/glossary/. If I had to guess I'd probably pick that as the older word than batsman.

More recently, there's that weird Steve Kirby sledge when he told somebody that he'd "seen better batters in my fridge", which must be from the 90s or very early 2000s. Edit: He said it to Atherton apparently https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/famous-sledger-steve-kirby-becomes-mcc-head-coach-995241

 

[The Optimist]

The word 'twice', everyboby says 'two times' now.

Now ‘thrice’ is a word you don’t hear much. I can’t claim to use it, but I do like it.

 

[El Presidente]

Don’t see a lot of fingering these days

 

[tedebear]

Nit twit
Most days my dog gets called this.

Isn't it nitwit? Unless I've been saying it wrong all my life...

 

[BN9 BHA]

Isn't it nitwit? Unless I've been saying it wrong all my life...

Don’t know TBH, I’m not sure my dog is bothered

 

[Brownstuff]

Have a butch at that

 

[GJN1]

Apeth.