[News] Old fashioned words you use

[fly high]

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

Same as biro and not ballpoint.

 

[fly high]

Linesman

Also lino. Lino also for flooring.

 

[NigelTaylor82]

Cad to describe a friend who didn’t behave very nicely towards his girlfriend

 

[Si Gull]

when I'm asked the time at 2.25, say, and, out of habit, automatically reply "Five and twenty past two".

Growing up away from our fair county, I always thought this was a Sussex thing as the only people I ever heard using it were relatives that lived in Brighton/Hove/Lewes.

 

[Easy 10]

I'm very fond of using the word BUFFOON, or its close cousin BUFFOONERY. Usually preceded with an 'utter' or 'absolute'.

I am also quite partial to referring to close friends and acquaintances as 'squire'.

"Here's that picture of Myleene Klass smothered in swarfega that I was telling you about Easy"
"Ahh, nice one. Cheers squire".

 

[Comrade Sam]

Dick wad
The filth
Spaz

 

[maltaseagull]

Some of these I started using ironically and became part of my vocabulary, some I’ve always used and never switched to the modern version.

Clicker - (TV, hi-fi, blu-Ray) remote control

Flickers/talkies - movies

Pocketbook - purse/handbag

Tape/taping - recording a TV programme

Dictaphone - everything I record into such as phone, laptop mic

And my personal favourite - icebox - refrigerator

Please, thank you, can I have, should have.

 

[Easy 10]

Bobbins is nice as well.

"Leeds will be easily top arf next season, I tells thee"
"Have a day off Arkwright, you're talking absolute bobbins again"

 

[schmunk]

Spaz

You might want to rethink this one.

 

[bhafc99]

Only issue for Little Common, was the impending populating in Northeye of undesirables.

Oh lord don’t mention that. My middle sister, who used to be a right hippie in her youth, has now gone ultra right wing and was prominently at the vanguard of the ‘Stop Asylum Seekers Coming to Northeye” campaign!

 

[getz]

I am surprised no one uses " cheerio" on departing.
" transistor radio". Probably because I collect them.

 

[Whoislloydy]

My grandad still refers to black people as "coloured kid" he's by no means racist, he's just old.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Oh lord don’t mention that. My middle sister, who used to be a right hippie in her youth, has now gone ultra right wing and was prominently at the vanguard of the ‘Stop Asylum Seekers Coming to Northeye” campaign!

Gladly they are not coming now

 

[Wozza]

I used to play footy in Little Common, grew up not far from there.
There's a decent deli in the village from what I can remember.
Only issue for Little Common, was the impending populating in Northeye of undesirables.

Fairly confident that the word "deli" wasn't in use when I used to hang out in Little Common, last century!

 

[Gwylan]

Growing up away from our fair county, I always thought this was a Sussex thing as the only people I ever heard using it were relatives that lived in Brighton/Hove/Lewes.

Possibly. Although there's also a construction in Welsh - 2.25 would "bum* munud ar hugain wedi dau", literally five minutes and twenty after two. If it's a Sussex phrase and a Welsh one, it's no wonder I can't get it out of mind

* - for those with minds like schoolkids, that bum is pronounced bim

 

[1066familyman]

I have a habit of putting the word, 'old', in front of a lot of things.

For instance, when asking after someone who is still clearly very young, I'll say, ' How's old.... doing?'.

I think, but not certain, that it's a Sussex thing?
Maybe other counties do it too, but certainly something I picked up from working a lot with country folk from the Robertsbridge area when I was young, and it's never left me.

 

[fly high]

On my way to work one morning met a really large lorry on a very narrow road. It had stopped at a slightly wider point and the driver was trying to work out how he could get out of it. Got to work and complained about meeting a bloody juggernaut, two twenty somethings completely flummoxed, no clue what I was talking about.

 

[jcdenton08]

On my way to work one morning met a really large lorry on a very narrow road. It had stopped at a slightly wider point and the driver was trying to work out how he could get out of it. Got to work and complained about meeting a bloody juggernaut, two twenty somethings completely flummoxed, no clue what I was talking about.

 

[1066familyman]

Taradiddle
Defenestrate
Khazi
Corbynista
Emolument
Sherbet
Recidivist
Queer (the old meaning, especially when conversing with someone who hates the new meaning)
iPod

Queer had two other meanings when I was growing up, aside from still being used commonly in relation to homosexuals.

'She had to go home as she came over all queer'. As in, not very well.

'He's a bit queer, but he's alright once you get to know him'. As in, he's a bit different, or odd.

Also, growing up on a Council Estate in the 1970's. People often had 'nervous breakdowns'. I never knew a single person who had 'depression', ever!

Oh, and everyone had 'front rooms' with a 'settee' and others things in it. No one had a 'living room' or 'lounge', and no one owned a 'sofa'.

 

[1066familyman]

Pictures
Rates
Telly
Taping/videoing
Hoover
Wireless
Gander
Old Bill
Coppers
Disco

We only ever went to the 'pictures' to watch a 'film'. No one ever went to the 'cinema' to watch a 'movie'.

Both terms have stuck with me throughout, although I can't remember the last time I went to the pictures as I'm not really a film fan.