words I/you still use, and no one else dose

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So I mentioned in the world traveler thread that I still use words that I guess have long gone out of fashion. Curious if anyone else around has a word, phrase or expression where it gets a weird look when you use it. 

I went over that I still say Ice Box, Filling Station and service station as well as supermarket. That said, the last service station in the area, got bulldozed about three months ago, presumably to make room for a filling station...

Had people over, and saw someone grab a beer, and I said the church key was in the drawer next to the ice box...Mind you this person is even a few years older than myself...I thought Ice box threw them, come to find out church key did...when they asked for the bottle opener...


So anyone else out there use terms no else seems to, but they are just second nature for you? 

[trilo]

I used a word "seedy" this summer when I was visitng UK, and got some funny looks and chuckles from my father in law and my wife's uncle (through marriage).

But I can tell you, it truly was a seedy tavern where I took cover from the rain and drank a pint of John Smith's with couple of guys who were missing most of their teeth.

In Finnish I think I use words that others would rarely use.

One of my favourites is "Tomppeli".

It rolls so nicely and it has a warm connotation describing someone stupid at certain moment, without actually mocking them or labeling them stupid.

Anyone can be a bit of a Tomppeli some times.

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tomppeli

[leffemonster]

trilo - ‘seedy’ and a pint of John Smiths just go hand-in-hand 

[HiBeat]

Temerity

I said in a meeting and the big boss actually stopped the conversation and asked "what does temerity mean?".   So I told them.  😂

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Sept 30, 2023 15:13:09 GMT -8 HiBeat said:

Temerity

I said in a meeting and the big boss actually stopped the conversation and asked "what does temerity mean?".   So I told them.  😂

I'm not meaning words that come with having a better vocab then most, just words that I thought more or less common place that have gone out of favor I guess.

As for Seedy I tended bar for years in a place most often referred to as seedy. Kept most good people away.

[cd_god]

Seedy and Northside are interchangeable in any conversation.

There was also the "Word Of the Day Thread" from years ago

wristsushi.proboards.com/thread/4505/word-day 

[trilo]

Sept 30, 2023 14:41:40 GMT -8 leffemonster said:

trilo - ‘seedy’ and a pint of John Smiths just go hand-in-hand 

That's what the other chap was ravin' about and I got to hear a story about the breweries of Yorkshire, where he was from. Truth to be told, I enjoyed my time with these guys.

The other guy didn't first get where I was from (the other guy tried to say Finland and the other heard "Teignmouth!?").

When this other guy realized I was from Finland, he started crackin' bad brexit jokes.

But all in all, a good memory to hold.

[victor]

I still say fin, sawbuck and double sawbuck.  My younger daughter picked up "don't take any wooden nickels" which made me cringe a little when she used it with her friends.  Oops, let it die.

I say gumboots when I'm referring to galoshes.

In the office I still occasionally use Rolodex, but only with the old guys who will know what I mean.

I dunno.  I picked up a lot of stuff from the old guys in my family and that I hung around or worked with when I was a kid. Most of the stuff I say I don't even realize until somebody else raises their eyebrows.  "Cuss" and "cussing" is common around here.  "Buddy-ro" is very localized in the south-eastern bit of our state, to refer to a buddy or friend, but my neighbor who grew up there uses it.

More noteworthy is the stuff I deliberately dropped - I just never realized they were "bad" until I started to get older and lived elsewhere.  A less extreme example would be "crip" to refer to a handicap parking spot.  Just never thought about it until a friend called it out and I said "Oh. yeah. right."  Lots of that stuff I made it into my mid- and late-20s before I figured out it was stupid.  And growing up in NZ, I picked up some Aussie words when I was a kid - In my 20s I referred to Aborigines as Abbos in front of an Australian coed and got my ass handed to me - I had no idea it was wrong.  And there's just a ton of stuff referring to different nationalities and races that I heard as a kid that I dropped many years ago.  When was the last time you heard a Polack joke?

I tell my kids to give the old folks a break. Grandmom and Grandad are trying, as are we, but things and mores and words were different then and it's tough to change.  We don't mean any harm, but stuff is going to come out of our mouths and they're just going to have to understand - and in 40 or 60 years or so they're going to be on the receiving end.

[saldog]

Oct 1, 2023 15:35:55 GMT -8 victor said:

I still say fin, sawbuck and double sawbuck.  My younger daughter picked up "don't take any wooden nickels" which made me cringe a little when she used it with her friends.  Oops, let it die.

I say gumboots when I'm referring to galoshes.

In the office I still occasionally use Rolodex, but only with the old guys who will know what I mean.

I dunno.  I picked up a lot of stuff from the old guys in my family and that I hung around or worked with when I was a kid. Most of the stuff I say I don't even realize until somebody else raises their eyebrows.  "Cuss" and "cussing" is common around here.  "Buddy-ro" is very localized in the south-eastern bit of our state, to refer to a buddy or friend, but my neighbor who grew up there uses it.

More noteworthy is the stuff I deliberately dropped - I just never realized they were "bad" until I started to get older and lived elsewhere.  A less extreme example would be "crip" to refer to a handicap parking spot.  Just never thought about it until a friend called it out and I said "Oh. yeah. right."  Lots of that stuff I made it into my mid- and late-20s before I figured out it was stupid.  And growing up in NZ, I picked up some Aussie words when I was a kid - In my 20s I referred to Aborigines as Abbos in front of an Australian coed and got my ass handed to me - I had no idea it was wrong.  And there's just a ton of stuff referring to different nationalities and races that I heard as a kid that I dropped many years ago.  When was the last time you heard a Polack joke?

I tell my kids to give the old folks a break. Grandmom and Grandad are trying, as are we, but things and mores and words were different then and it's tough to change.  We don't mean any harm, but stuff is going to come out of our mouths and they're just going to have to understand - and in 40 or 60 years or so they're going to be on the receiving end.

My Mom (rest her soul and today is her birthday) called them “gun boats”, not “gum boots”, whenever a pair of shoes I was trying on were too big. I never learned the etymology of the term. Maybe she was saying it wrong or I was hearing it wrong?

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Oct 1, 2023 15:35:55 GMT -8 victor said:

I still say fin, sawbuck and double sawbuck.  My younger daughter picked up "don't take any wooden nickels" which made me cringe a little when she used it with her friends.  Oops, let it die.

I say gumboots when I'm referring to galoshes.

In the office I still occasionally use Rolodex, but only with the old guys who will know what I mean.

I dunno.  I picked up a lot of stuff from the old guys in my family and that I hung around or worked with when I was a kid. Most of the stuff I say I don't even realize until somebody else raises their eyebrows.  "Cuss" and "cussing" is common around here.  "Buddy-ro" is very localized in the south-eastern bit of our state, to refer to a buddy or friend, but my neighbor who grew up there uses it.

More noteworthy is the stuff I deliberately dropped - I just never realized they were "bad" until I started to get older and lived elsewhere.  A less extreme example would be "crip" to refer to a handicap parking spot.  Just never thought about it until a friend called it out and I said "Oh. yeah. right."  Lots of that stuff I made it into my mid- and late-20s before I figured out it was stupid.  And growing up in NZ, I picked up some Aussie words when I was a kid - In my 20s I referred to Aborigines as Abbos in front of an Australian coed and got my ass handed to me - I had no idea it was wrong.  And there's just a ton of stuff referring to different nationalities and races that I heard as a kid that I dropped many years ago.  When was the last time you heard a Polack joke?

I tell my kids to give the old folks a break. Grandmom and Grandad are trying, as are we, but things and mores and words were different then and it's tough to change.  We don't mean any harm, but stuff is going to come out of our mouths and they're just going to have to understand - and in 40 or 60 years or so they're going to be on the receiving end.

I have not said Fin or Saw Buck in many years I'm guessing it has more to do with the lack of currency in circulation and the cost of things going up. No one needs you to spot them a fin until payday they need a c note...

As for not knowing, a neighbor thought "Wet Back" for Mexicans was more or less a compliment, meaning they were hard workers.

[sdoocms]

Icebox...