Thank you! Now there are two words that are becoming extinct
Book. I don't know if it is the connotations (I'm a lit-geek) or the word itself but I just love the way it feels.
It's actually a phrase (from The Simpsons) - "yo ho my mommandant". Complete with salute. it rolls so nicely off my tongue.
When I was a kid and in the way, I used to get told to 'skedaddle.'
Apparently the American word became fashionable around 1862 in relation to the civil war.
I grew up in London, England, and I always thought the word was cockney.
Or even that the person who used to tell me to skedaddle had made the word up himself.
He had a couple of mates in the US armed forces - perhaps he'd picked it up off them. I just wondered if American kids still get told to 'skedaddle'?
(wherever its from, I think its a great word to say).
Peace,
Endy
Chai Tea wrote:Pompetus of Love
Amusing Straight Dope on the origins of Pompetus:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_065.html
Skedaddle, my mum used that too, in London - I think like many American words it just slid over the Atlantic, possibly with the GIs or with American films in the 30s and because it was so onomatopoeic it caught on.
sometimes i say "fiddly-frig".
let's see... 0 hits on google.
i guess i made it up
A list:
- complex
- oh heck!
- preps (I don't know why!)
- exasperating
- sheesh
- huh?
More grunts than words, actually.
"wat-cha-ma-callit....."
this word sounded gr8 when I first time heard it....
Sarasangi
hullabaloo
eructations
borborygmus
crap
I like to say "peeps".
As in, "I don't know, let me ask some of my peeps about that."
I also like discombobulate.
"Of course I'll respect you." I just love saying that.
