[News] Old fashioned words you use

[Redinpeace]

 

[Flounce]

Flange, completely different meaning these days it seems

Mardy

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The First, Second, Third and Fourth Divisions

 

[Gabbafella]

Barnet for my hair.
Wazzock and pillock

 

[lawros left foot]

Higgeldy piggeldy.

 

[schmunk]

Flange, completely different meaning these days it seems

Mardy

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The First, Second and Third Divisions

Flange isn't an old-fashioned word, just a technical one.

Mardy isn't old-fashioned, it's Northern.

 

[Redinpeace]

I love the wireless and taping stuff but my favourite is “the scullery”

 

[Flounce]

Flange isn't an old-fashioned word, just a technical one.

Mardy isn't old-fashioned, it's Northern.

Try talking about a Flange in front of the younger generation and watch the reaction

 

[Gwylan]

I'm sure I have loads - as I am old. One that immediately springs to mind, and which confuses the hell out of young people, is when I'm asked the time at 2.25, say, and, out of habit, automatically reply "Five and twenty past two". It's how I learnt to tell the time many years ago but kids don't get it.

Mrs Gwylan manages to confuse me as she weighs herself regularly and talks about stones and pounds, which involves a bit of mental arithmetic. I did once ask her how many groats did a pound of sugar cost, but she wasn't amused.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

A while back I was called out by some young whippersnapper for using "centre half".

Nothing wrong with using that

 

[The Clamp]

I always refer to eye glasses as spectacles.
Dry food cupboard is the pantry.

And I call people twerps and wallys.

Not an affectation, just what I’ve always said.

 

[schmunk]

Try talking about a Flange in front of the younger generation and watch the reaction

Perhaps so, but that doesn't make the other meaning "old fashioned" as it's still in common usage, and will remain so, as it's a technical term.

 

[schmunk]

A while back I was called out by some young whippersnapper for using "centre half".

Fortunately this sort of thing fits in with my whole "man about 50years out of time" vibe so I'm pretty relaxed about it.

Centre Half is available as a drop-back tactical preset for CDMs in the latest "FIFA" game (EA FC 25)

 

[METALMICKY]

Great idea for a thread! I still talk about videoing and Hoovering...

Doesn't virtually everyone still say 'Hoovering' as opposed to vacuuming even though it's curious since the derivation is a specific brand?

 

[Eeyore]

Outwith (although this is because of working with so many Scots folk now. I don't say outside anymore)
Eyup (always say this without humour intended. Picked it up from my Yorkshire boss)
Service till (I don't say ATM, not that folk use them much now)
'I'm paying in cash'

 

[loz]

Being in the vacuum industry I use Flange everyday.

But I always say Wireless, as a joke to start with but now all the time

And I use “under-drawers”I heard it in a period drama and thought it’s a nicer word than all the modern ones for pants and knickers.

I have always used “ in the midst” which I then have to explain.

 

[schmunk]

Doesn't virtually everyone still say 'Hoovering' as opposed to vacuuming even though it's curious since the derivation is a specific brand?

Indeed, I hoover with my Dyson.

 

[METALMICKY]

I've always loved ' procrastination '. Bizarrely the origin is an old bastard of a physics teacher who banged on about " procrastination being the thief of time ".

 

[schmunk]

Service till (I don't say ATM, not that folk use them much now)

Now, if we're talking about words* which have picked up erm... alternative newer meanings...





* yes yes, it's an initialism, not a word.

 

[METALMICKY]

Indeed, I hoover with my Dyson.

So you could be Dysoning with your hoover!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Flange is also a plumbing fitting, there is one fitting called an Essex Flange, I’m not sure what will actually appear if I Googled it now