[News] Old fashioned words you use

[jcdenton08]

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

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

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.

 

[Happy Exile]

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

 

[Pretty Plnk Fairy]

If I rote my old fashioner words here on NSC the WOKE MINED VIRUS mods would ban me for evs

Regards

DF

 

[backson]

I heard someone refer to the wireless the other day.

 

[Titanic]

Please and Thank You.

 

[jcdenton08]

I heard someone refer to the wireless the other day.

Yep that’s another one of mine!

 

[Albion my Albion]

horseless carriage

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I heard someone refer to the wireless the other day.

My favourite.

 

[maffew]

Dial in (to work, like I'm still on a modem)

 

[Albion my Albion]

tallywacker, johnson, peepee, (in referring to my golf clubs, of course)

 

[wolfie]

Bonce
Walkie-Talkie (for mobile)

 

[Sussax]

Twitten.

Also great for confusing DFLs.

 

[GT49er]

I still go to the chemist to get my prescriptions - never got accustomed to all this 'pharmacy' stuff.

 

[Bakero]

• Blimey
• Cripes
• Cripperty cripes
• Jimminy Jillikers

 

[maffew]

• Blimey
• Cripes
• Cripperty cripes
• Jimminy Jillikers

You don't actually do you?

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

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

We refer to our ‘hoover’ as ‘suck up’ … which is what a couple of young French school lads that were staying with us when we had foreign students back in the early ‘90s called it. They were cleaning/tidying their bedroom at the end of their stay - amazing, I know - and they didn’t know the English word for vacuum cleaner … they were doing the actions (Freddie Mercury style) and kept saying suck up. So it stuck with us.

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

I heard someone refer to the wireless the other day.

One of these things …

 

[Lenny Rider]

Dinlo and idiot in old money.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Alacrity and occasionally the Victorian classic - gasconading.