Words that are going out of fashion / usage

Kurtis

Timcito said:

  

In my formative years back in England in the 70s, pretty much anything on TV that wasn't a film was called a 'programme.' We had comedy programmes, DIY programmes, cooking programmes, current events and news programmes, you name it. Here in the US, everything is a 'show.' I was just wondering if British TV still broadcast 'programmes' or whether they had all been converted to 'shows.'

Either works, show is simpler though. 

Nitefly

Kittyfrisk said:

B. There aren't really any public pay toilets any more.

I refer the honourable gentleman to Bolton Travel Interchange, where they are pleased to charge 20p for the privilege of "spending a penny".

Robbing bastards 

Kurtis

Nitefly said:

Kittyfrisk said:

B. There aren't really any public pay toilets any more.

I refer the honourable gentleman to Bolton Travel Interchange, where they are pleased to charge 20p for the privilege of "spending a penny".

Robbing bastards 

Puts the junkies off. They're the only people that use them anyway. 

Jfingers

I still occasionally use "going to see a man about a dog" to mean mind your own business.

Has any done peeved yet? I'll be using that one later.

Offset

Timcito said:

Sounds a bit like Peter Sellers saying to Sophia Loren, "Goodness, gracious me!"

Ooooooooooooof.  Sophia Loren.... possibly the best-looking woman in the history of the world, ever.

Timcito

Offset said:

Timcito said:

Sounds a bit like Peter Sellers saying to Sophia Loren, "Goodness, gracious me!"

Ooooooooooooof.  Sophia Loren.... possibly the best-looking woman in the history of the world, ever.

She always looked a bit too cat-like for me.

I think the title should go to Liz Taylor! 

Rob1742

Pug
French letter
Sheath
Flid
Trumped

i like trumped, farted just isn’t as good as trumped. 

fretmeister

Crassulent. 

Jeremiah

I haven't read the entire thread, but...

A "settee" when I was a kid, appears to have become a "sofa" by the time I was in my teens/twenties, and has in turn morphed into a "couch" among the younger generations.

guitars4you

Kittyfrisk said:

guitars4you said:

Supportact said:

Philly_Q said:

Supportact said:

Waz, as in 'wee'. I used it recently, said 'I'm off for a waz' and I was mocked and told that no one says that now.

I suppose it's 'piss' now. 

Do people still say slash?

Think so, but I don't talk to loads of younger people so maybe it's in the same category as waz. 

I'm going to spend a penny - Or I need to spend a penny - Maybe some younger members don't even get this

Probably as :
A. They don't use pennies (or any other physical money).
B. There aren't really any public pay toilets any more.

B - In our town they are public pay - Not sure how this stacks up elsewhere - But Derbys Dales, certainly in Ashbourne charge in the main car park 

HAL9000

Before Brexit, rather than spending a penny, I used to Euronate

Lebarque

Fanny

Kittyfrisk

Lebarque said:

Fanny

Not in America, they still sit on it... & frequently talk out of it 

Kurtis

Fud. 

Tannin

Jimbro66 said:

Along with ‘shall’ we’ve also witnessed the enforced death of the adverb during our lifetime.

Huh? Why would you think that?

Tannin

Dominic said:

What is always interesting is the etymology when a language has been left behind in a colony or former territory and becomes frozen in time as it doesn't evolve colloquially .....
My Greek friends laugh at the 'Greek' spoken by my Cypriot friends because it's almost a form of 18th century Greek that they speak.
I have a lot of Indian ( from India not UK ) friends and clients who speak " Indlish " which is their Victorian English legacy ;some of the phrases are very old/stilted .......
" We must do the needful" , something is never good ;it's "most satisfactory "
An old girlfriend's father was Bengali from Kolkata ....he would exclaim "Oh my goodness gracious,Golly-Gosh "

Just so.

Many of the weird things our American friends say are actually perfectly normal English expressions from a bygone century. The rest of the world has forgotten them, and when we hear Americans say them we think they are kooky. 

My Croatian sister-in-law grew up there, moved to Oz when she was 13 or so, then moved back to Croatia after she retired. She says people there laugh at her Croatian because it is so rural and old-fashioned. In contrast her husband (my Australian-born-and-bred brother-in-law) speaks perfectly modern Croatian, albeit somewhat limited as he only started learning it a few years ago at age 50-something. 

Kurtis

Tannin said:

Dominic said:

What is always interesting is the etymology when a language has been left behind in a colony or former territory and becomes frozen in time as it doesn't evolve colloquially .....
My Greek friends laugh at the 'Greek' spoken by my Cypriot friends because it's almost a form of 18th century Greek that they speak.
I have a lot of Indian ( from India not UK ) friends and clients who speak " Indlish " which is their Victorian English legacy ;some of the phrases are very old/stilted .......
" We must do the needful" , something is never good ;it's "most satisfactory "
An old girlfriend's father was Bengali from Kolkata ....he would exclaim "Oh my goodness gracious,Golly-Gosh "

Just so.

Many of the weird things our American friends say are actually perfectly normal English expressions from a bygone century. The rest of the world has forgotten them, and when we hear Americans say them we think they are kooky. 

My Croatian sister-in-law grew up there, moved to Oz when she was 13 or so, then moved back to Croatia after she retired. She says people there laugh at her Croatian because it is so rural and old-fashioned. In contrast her husband (my Australian-born-and-bred brother-in-law) speaks perfectly modern Croatian, albeit somewhat limited as he only started learning it a few years ago at age 50-something. 

Is Australia not the same? 

Timcito

Tannin said:

Jimbro66 said:

Along with ‘shall’ we’ve also witnessed the enforced death of the adverb during our lifetime.

Huh? Why would you think that?

Using adjectives when adverbs of manner should be used is common in the US: "You've done good" instead of, "You've done well"; "He speaks real quiet" instead of, "He speaks really quietly"; etc.

Tannin

^ Ahh. Thankyou. Yes. 

Of course, as a well-educated bigoted native-born English speaker, I don't regard anything speakers of foreign languages such as American say as being relevant to our language. (Except when it creeps into and pollutes real proper English  as she is spoke - which is pretty much all the time these days.)

Tannin

Kurtis said:

Tannin said:

Dominic said:

What is always interesting is the etymology when a language has been left behind in a colony or former territory and becomes frozen in time as it doesn't evolve colloquially .....
My Greek friends laugh at the 'Greek' spoken by my Cypriot friends because it's almost a form of 18th century Greek that they speak.
I have a lot of Indian ( from India not UK ) friends and clients who speak " Indlish " which is their Victorian English legacy ;some of the phrases are very old/stilted .......
" We must do the needful" , something is never good ;it's "most satisfactory "
An old girlfriend's father was Bengali from Kolkata ....he would exclaim "Oh my goodness gracious,Golly-Gosh "

Just so.

Many of the weird things our American friends say are actually perfectly normal English expressions from a bygone century. The rest of the world has forgotten them, and when we hear Americans say them we think they are kooky. 

My Croatian sister-in-law grew up there, moved to Oz when she was 13 or so, then moved back to Croatia after she retired. She says people there laugh at her Croatian because it is so rural and old-fashioned. In contrast her husband (my Australian-born-and-bred brother-in-law) speaks perfectly modern Croatian, albeit somewhat limited as he only started learning it a few years ago at age 50-something. 

Is Australia not the same? 

Logic would suggest that it ought to be, though I cannot think of any examples. Perhaps an English-born expat living here might notice things which I don't see myself. Most (all?) of the Australianisms I can think of are home-grown.