[News] Old fashioned words you use

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

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

I googled Essex Flange for you. I didn't get what I was expecting. I got a lot of pictures of nuts...

 

[Weststander]

Linesman

 

[Terry Connor]

Chaps

 

[Algernon]

Dick-splash.
As in "He's a dick-splash"

 

[The Mole]

I heard someone refer to the wireless the other day.

I remember listening to football commentaries on the wireless as long as nobody was listening to the gramophone player at the same time

 

[bhafc99]

Proper Sussex word, there are some in Lewes with road signs saying Twitten.

I grew up near one in Bexhill.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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

 

[jcdenton08]

These are all perfectly cromulent words

 

[Wozza]

I grew up near one in Bexhill.

My grandparents lived on one, also in Little Common.

 

[bhafc99]

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.

That sounds unbelievably old. Do you still need a sundial to tell the time, given that the mechanical clock was only invented in around 1300 (according to Wikipedia), and thus well after you?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Outwith is a very old word. King James Bible old.

I'm not keen on using any words that weren't in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

Which is a problem for me, because it was written in Latin.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Outwith is a very old word. King James Bible old.

Well, it's outwith my everyday vocabulary.

 

[Albion my Albion]

I got a lot of pictures of nuts...

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

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

@El Presidente can lend you the DVD boxset if you ask nicely.

 

[schmunk]

Proper Sussex word, there are some in Lewes with road signs saying Twitten.

The best twitten:

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Stones and pounds-weight
Shillings-money
five and twenty(to/past)-time
Feet inches, when it suits me-measurement
Fade out-leave
Guttersnipe-usually aimed at todays youth
There's a host of other words/sayings, which I use but don't know I am until it's brought up by some guttersnipe!

 

[AmexRuislip]

I grew up near one in Bexhill.

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My grandparents lived on one, also in Little Common.

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.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Have

 

[METALMICKY]

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

Genuine guitar effects pedals I once owned. Sold to me by Finbar Saunders obviously!

 

[nickbrighton]

Overmorrow- The day after tommorow
ereyesterday-The day before yesterday