Words that have fallen out of use

[Jacqueline]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

Airfix you must have worked at Scotland Yard lol

Yes I can remember when everyone used to say their location/number when they answered the telephone. Our original telephone table in the hall bit the dust when my elder brother threw my younger brother down the stairs and there was a collision.

[Sly]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

Bab or babba.

"I need to bab real bad, it's hurting me!" - "I need to go poo very very soon!"

"I don't like playing with the Play Mobile, it's babba." - "I do not like playing with this toy. I think it's rubbish!"

Sorry for lowering the tone of the thread.

[Colleen Masson]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

Sark (Scotland) for shirt or nightshirt...

[darren]

Re: old phrases

never hear sheckles much.
can u lend me a few sheckles for the groceries.

[stuckinthe80's]

Re: old phrases

never hear sheckles much.
can u lend me a few sheckles for the groceries.

Never heard of that at all!

[darren]

Re: old phrases

Never heard of that at all!

apparently its scottish for a money.

[Jacqueline]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

I thought shekels were the unit of currency in Israel.

[Richard1978]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

I thought shekels were the unit of currency in Israel.

Same here.

I have heard 1 or 2 people referring to money in general as shillings, long after decimalation (ie. that saved me a few shillings).

[stuckinthe80's]

Re: old phrases

apparently its scottish for a money.

Asked me mate who's Scottish and he's never heard of it!

[HG]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

I can remember shekels being used as a name for money, much in the same way people sometimes say dollars instead of pounds. Thinking back I think it came from my Scottish friend's cousins who came from the west coast of Scotland, so that sounds about right Darren. They are indeed the Israeli currency.

[Trickyvee]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

A bunch of German foreign exchange students at our school had been taught that the British always have a 'blue funk' when we get upset about something. Has anybody ever heard of this on these shores? Sounds suspiciously American to me.

[Richard1978]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

I've heard of it from somewhere, it does sound very American.

[sixtyten]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

I've always heard Funk used to describe smells

[Marine Boy]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

That stuff that collects in the corners of your eyes and on your lashes overnight; when I was a child, my mum called it 'sleep'. As in, "oh, brush it away, it's just a bit of sleep". Later I heard it called 'sleepy-dust'. Maybe it's called something else these days.

[sixtyten]

Re: Words that have fallen out of use

Still call it sleep. Everyone I know does