words or phrase you'd like to see back in common usage

[auster]

I'd like to see the word "groovy" getting used more, could be used as a substitute for the word cool.

Instead of saying you going buy a can of coke/pepsi, i'd love to see peeps saying they're going to buy a can of "pop"

Anyone else got a word or phrase they'd like to see come back form the dead?

[AnathemA]

Originally Posted by auster

Instead of saying you going buy a can of coke/pepsi, i'd love to see peeps saying they're going to buy a can of "pop"

In certain states in America, I think this is still the norm.

Personally, I'd like to see Shakespearean insults make a comeback.

[Laura Palmer]

@ groovy. I use that word, at times. (usually music orientated)



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[AnathemA]

Originally Posted by Laura Palmer

Ruffian
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I suggest spending an afternoon with Boris Johnson.

[IRIS]

Originally Posted by auster

Instead of saying you going buy a can of coke/pepsi, i'd love to see peeps saying they're going to buy a can of "pop"

I say that all the time, I dunno what else I would say !

[Belinda]

wotcha

[RattyLady]

calling a female a 'swell broad' or a 'swell dame'

[Laura Palmer]

^^Yes!

[Caribou]

Oh my, that is simply wizard!.

[AnathemA]

By Jove!

[Munkeh]

I've got a few I'd like to see have their common usage permit revoked...

Bruv
Blud
Sound (when used to refer to something being good)
Sketchy
Hollyoaks

[Caribou]

Charabanc is a great old word. "We're going on the charabanc." Meaning coach trip.

[Winnie57]

I'd like to see the word 'gay' reinstated to mean happy or pretty as in 'What gay flowers!'
I have an old girls' annual that uses the word gay quite a lot in this context as in 'make a gay bookmark'. This is from the early sixties.

[Kevin Hodge]

Originally Posted by auster

I'd like to see the word "groovy" getting used more, could be used as a substitute for the word cool.

i'm a drummer! i HAVE to say groovy

Instead of saying you going buy a can of coke/pepsi, i'd love to see peeps saying they're going to buy a can of "pop"

as far as i know, its very much in common use dahn saff

Originally Posted by Quiet bloke with cow

Warrant, as in "I'll warrant".

i say this sometimes...

Originally Posted by Poltergeist

Oh my, that is simply wizard!.

and this...

Originally Posted by AnathemA

By Jove!

and this!


i get bored saying the same things all the time and like to mess around with silly turns of phrase


i wish people would start saying "rad" again, i say this all the time. its so...shit

[GhostOnMagneticTape]

Gobbledygook!

[RattyLady]

ablutions

[hellotiger]

Balderdash!

[IRIS]

we used to call silly people a 'pez' or uncool stuff 'pezzy' I have brought it back tonight by calling someone it.

[Mr. Nobody]

my Dad used to say "crivens",....it basically means "oh shit"
if I ever heard it again I'd probably warp back to the 70's instantly

I'd like to hear the old " your'e looking well,..have you been ill" sarcy phrase back in circulation

[IRIS]

^ crivens, nice one, I willl incorperate that into my vocab ASAP

[MrPSB]

crikey!

[cherrychick]

drat and poppycock

[stuckinmyshell]

flabbergasted

[tituscrow]

Rapscallions!
Wet my whistle.
Tish, piffle and pshaw.

[Narwhal]

Originally Posted by ursula

wotcha

My dad always uses that one!

"Toodle pip" , balderdash is a good'un too

[Lone Dog]

Originally Posted by RattyLady

calling a female a 'swell broad' or a 'swell dame'

Is 'bint' ok these days?

[indiegirl1980]

"Consarn it"

"Forsooth"

"I'll tell you for why"

We still use one to describe camp men which is "too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work" (said of the man who used to hang the ladies underwear in the Co-Op drapers) This may just be a Suffolkism.