[News] Old fashioned words you use

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Thank you

An instance or means of expressing thanks

 

[withdeanwombat]

Many people seem to talk a lot of old tosh.

I always offer to help Mrs ww choose her new frocks.

Probably not alone in thinking the current POTUS talks a lot of cobblers.

 

[Swimboy64]

5 and 20 past
5 and 20 to

 

[Stato]

Twitten.

Also great for confusing DFLs.

First word that came to my mind. I used to work with someone from Blackburn and we'd enjoy correcting each other whenever we said 'twitten' or 'ginnel'.

 

[DJ NOBO]

I got to the pictures, shop in Marks and Sparks and refer to big centre backs as stoppers.

 

[The Clamp]

Knockers

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

Lumme. Flippin' Nora. Leave it out, guv.
Were you born in a barn?
Blow this for a game of soldiers.
Are you taking the mick?
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
He's had more comebacks than Frank Sinatra.
I could go on, but someone's suggested I put a sock in it.

 

[Bodian]

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

I do!

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.

Juggery-nut, that's what we called them.

Rozza

Jam Sandwich.

 

[Swimboy64]

Skidadle

 

[pasty]

Also lino. Lino also for flooring.

Still my favourite thing I’ve heard shouted at football.

Back in the Withdean years, after a very dubious offside was given against us a mate shouted “I’ve got better lino in my kitchen”

 

[OzMike]

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

 

[alanfp]

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

Did you know that further to some great marketing, Dyson is now the most well known brand of hoover?

 

[Weststander]

Ceylon
Siam
Sūþseaxe

 

[birthofanorange]

Widdershins and Taters.

 

[alanfp]

Ceylon
Siam
Sūþseaxe

My mate's son who is around 35 and a smart, well-educated school teacher didn't have a clue what Ceylon Tea was when he saw it in the supermarket recently. My own son is a bit younger and had never heard of Rhodesia, despite knowing all the current countries in the world, where they are and what their flags are.

I still think of Ukraine as "The Ukraine"

But anyone who says "5 and twenty past" is really old-fashioned. We had a teacher who said that in 1975 (yes, 50 years ago) and we thought it was old-fashioned then! But maybe he was from Sussex

 

[Weststander]

Two pennies worth [yes, I know it's more than one word ]

 

[jcdenton08]

Widdershins and Taters.

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew

 

[cheshunt seagull]

My obsessive refusal to end any sentence in a preposition requires me to use the word 'whom' quite a lot. I also use the word 'fewer' a more than most seem to these days.

 

[zefarelly]

I heard someone refer to the wireless the other day.

I'm listening to the wireless as I type.

 

[zefarelly]

Alacrity and occasionally the Victorian classic - gasconading.

Gasconading, like after that goal he scored at Euro 96 against the sweaties?