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Question for those who actually live in the UK – do you or anyone you know actually use the words “crikey” or “blimey”? Are they just another example of stereotyping? I only ask because in the 5+ years I’ve corresponded with you guys on this Forum, the only person who uses those words on a regular basis is SG.
Just wonderin’.
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Ron Nasty Two reasons. One, because I picked it up from AppleScruffJunior and that’s how she spells it, and she’s Irish so she ought to know. Two, because my spell-checker objected to ’tis and insisted I spell it the other way.It makes sense to me– a contraction of ‘it is’, with the I in ‘it’ dropped off and the remaining letters stuck together with an apostrophe. T’is.
That’s how I grammar, yes, sort of instinctive like the Fabs’ guitar playing
I accept your first reason. It also throws me when @AppleScruffJunior does it. Your second, so-so – my spell-checker allows words to be added.
However, your line about a contraction is so wrong! In a contraction, the missing letter(s) are always replaced by an apostrophe. The apostrophe is not placed willy-nilly.
Is not becomes isn’t not is’nt. Cannot becomes can’t not ca’nt. Etc.
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Question for those who actually live in the UK – do you or anyone you know actually use the words “crikey” or “blimey”? Are they just another example of stereotyping? I only ask because in the 5+ years I’ve corresponded with you guys on this Forum, the only person who uses those words on a regular basis is SG.Just wonderin’.
I may have used both words very, very rarely, but not regularly. They’re the kind of words that are associated with those very funny versions of the English that funny foreigners come up with (example: Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins).
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Ah well, you learn something every day. 
And yes, I can add words to my spellcheck. But I do so methodically, and if it says ’tis is to be spelled t’is then I figure it must have a reason…
I shall have to do some more research. 
EDIT made two minutes later: Well, I be confused. Every source I’ve run across says ’tis is correct. My spell checker says otherwise. I have decided it is barmy and will re-educate it immediately.
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Offline @ewe2, there’s an old Don Williams song titled Good Ole Boys Like Me that has this line “Learned to talk like the man on the six o’clock news.” There is a perception that people with strong regional accent are a little less educated. Perhaps part of it is that they have been insulated in a particular backwards society. They aren’t “cosmopolitan” and haven’t been exposed to various dialects/accents that take the “edge” off strong accents.
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Offline Zig said
Question for those who actually live in the UK – do you or anyone you know actually use the words “crikey” or “blimey”? Are they just another example of stereotyping? I only ask because in the 5+ years I’ve corresponded with you guys on this Forum, the only person who uses those words on a regular basis is SG.Just wonderin’.
Never used them in my life nor can I see how they would ever come to be used in conversation. Just doesn’t sit right with the vocabulary used in my neck of the woods.
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Offline It would be “bugger” but not one I use often. I tend to go with “damn” or “rabbits”, no idea where “rabbits” came from tho.
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@ewe2, there’s an old Don Williams song titled Good Ole Boys Like Me that has this line “Learned to talk like the man on the six o’clock news.” There is a perception that people with strong regional accent are a little less educated. Perhaps part of it is that they have been insulated in a particular backwards society. They aren’t “cosmopolitan” and haven’t been exposed to various dialects/accents that take the “edge” off strong accents.
A favourite comedian of mine here Tony Martin is from NZ and had to ‘remove’ his accent for Australian radio so he spent a week with Australian soap operas like Neigbours and Home and Away (mid 80’s this was) to do it; he was already a good mimic but imagine having to do that!
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It would be “bugger” but not one I use often. I tend to go with “damn” or “rabbits”, no idea where “rabbits” came from tho.
Hehe rabbits, perhaps because its almost a homophone. Of course Australians use bugger in 4 ways, as an exclamation, an imprecation, a noun, and a transitive verb. Bugger, you’re a bugger, what a bugger, don’t bugger it up.
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Ron Nasty Two reasons. One, because I picked it up from AppleScruffJunior and that’s how she spells it, and she’s Irish so she ought to know. Two, because my spell-checker objected to ’tis and insisted I spell it the other way.It makes sense to me– a contraction of ‘it is’, with the I in ‘it’ dropped off and the remaining letters stuck together with an apostrophe. T’is.
That’s how I grammar, yes, sort of instinctive like the Fabs’ guitar playing
I accept your first reason. It also throws me when @AppleScruffJunior does it. Your second, so-so – my spell-checker allows words to be added.
However, your line about a contraction is so wrong! In a contraction, the missing letter(s) are always replaced by an apostrophe. The apostrophe is not placed willy-nilly.
Is not becomes isn’t not is’nt. Cannot becomes can’t not ca’nt. Etc.
I have a strange feeling I spell it interchangeably- I challenge you all to prove me wrong (I googled it and found that SG has posted it as ” t’is ” and ” ’tis”- that’s a paddling!).
I don’t actually write it down in the “real world”- i.e. I wouldn’t put it any short story or anything that I write but on forums I type the way I speak hence “” t’is “-
I doesn’t care if its bad grammer and spelleng.
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Offline The saying of the word “Tisn’t” is the final act needed for Columbo to solve a murder in the episode ‘Last Salute To The Commodore’.
That has little to do with the above but I have no idea what the above is actually about aside from some grammar thing.
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Question for those who actually live in the UK – do you or anyone you know actually use the words “crikey” or “blimey”? Are they just another example of stereotyping? I only ask because in the 5+ years I’ve corresponded with you guys on this Forum, the only person who uses those words on a regular basis is SG.Just wonderin’.
To be fair, I don’t use those words in an effort to ‘try and sound British’. It’s just that I collect interesting expressions/ejaculations, be they English, Irish, Roald Dahlian, or of my own invention; expressions other than you Run Of The Mill ‘ohmigosh’, ‘darn’, etc. And it just so happened that ‘crikey’ happened to stick in my lexicon– *sings* I don’t know whyyyyyy, it just did. I actually don’t use ‘blimey’ all that much, it’s a little too stereotyped-Cockney for regular usage. If I recall correctly, ‘crikey’ is Australian in origin.
Just clarifyin’.
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Offline Which one is more exciting Christmas or New Year?
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Question for those who actually live in the UK – do you or anyone you know actually use the words “crikey” or “blimey”? Are they just another example of stereotyping? I only ask because in the 5+ years I’ve corresponded with you guys on this Forum, the only person who uses those words on a regular basis is SG.Just wonderin’.
To be fair, I don’t use those words in an effort to ‘try and sound British’. It’s just that I collect interesting expressions/ejaculations, be they English, Irish, Roald Dahlian, or of my own invention; expressions other than you Run Of The Mill ‘ohmigosh’, ‘darn’, etc. And it just so happened that ‘crikey’ happened to stick in my lexicon– *sings* I don’t know whyyyyyy, it just did. I actually don’t use ‘blimey’ all that much, it’s a little too stereotyped-Cockney for regular usage. If I recall correctly, ‘crikey’ is Australian in origin.
Just clarifyin’.
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Which one is more exciting Christmas or New Year?
Christmas, because you don’t have to listen to the fat people in your life talking about how they’re gonna lose weight.
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I shall now commence reading all your posts with a slight Bostonian twang.
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Offline HongKongLady said
Which one is more exciting Christmas or New Year?
Christmas, just – the look on the faces of little kids.
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Offline HongKongLady wondered aloud
Which one is more exciting Christmas or New Year?
Me and my monkeys generally don’t do much for New Year whereas with Christmas there’s presents and some years visiting family, so Christmas. Waking up and bolting into the living room and seeing what new books and records and candies St Nick has brought… good times.
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Offline HongKongLady said
Which one is more exciting Christmas or New Year?
For me, its Christmas. Just about nobody in my family even remotely celebrates New Years Day, and my brother and I are the only ones that actually stay up on New Years Eve and watch the ball drop (which I’ve always hated watching because it’s New York and you can’t see a thing) oh well
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