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am confused by the bummage bit. since 'bummer' was an adjective to replace bugger.

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i should clear that up - at school I mean. Instead of bugger, we said ' oh, man, that's a right bummer'., and 'oh bum' as in oh dear.

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Often a good idea after bumming, aye.

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dear oh dear.

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But that's why it works so well - it's not dissimilar to 'gay for' as a way of denoting that someone likes something, it's just more amusingly graphic!

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darkmarcpi.livejournal.com

It probably doesn't include 'bag' as a replacement for 'bah', but then I'm sadly the only person who uses it.

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Write in and claim you heard a yoof gang saying it - it will become official in no time!

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I love individual swearwords. My ex used to say "Oh fish!" But then he had a fish phobia. Also "Tights!"

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'belgium!'

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My Gran was pretty much incapable of referring to said country's inhabitants as anything but 'the fvcking Belg' (pronounced 'belj'). I have no idea why.

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cosmolinguist

I have a friend who sometimes still says "inches!" (Very self-conscoiusly, but still it's funny.) I think it's because our chemistry teacher, in trying to impress SI units upon us, said that "inches" was a bad word.

Not as funny as "fish," though.

I actually think that English people (of my acquaintance, at least) are kind of good at unusual swearwords anyway. Things like "pants"; it would just never occur to me that invoking the name of that particular garment would be a good way to show derision or something. And the other great thing is that here, it seems, all nouns can be verbed, so you get "pantsing" and whatever. Delightful, I say.

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Of course, pants are more intimate over here...

SI units can go pants themselves, quite frankly.

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I have a loud-mouthed, bolshy student who's forever yelling at her dad and her brother and as far as I can tell making their lives a misery, but she keeps saying 'oh for poop's sake'. She really doesn't seem like the sort to tone her swearing down to 'drat'/'oh flip'/'heck' sort of euphemisms, so maybe that means 'poop' has now become very rude?

And people are still saying 'safe as f*ck', though I thought that one was gone by now. I heard it on the 31 bus, always a source of up-to-the-minute slang.

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Maybe they're saying it in a retro-ironic way, like we use 'omg' &c?

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I was wondering that, but there didn't seem to be any irony in their voices. Maybe I just don't know what younger people's irony sounds like. God I feel old.

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I still use it clart.

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angelv.livejournal.com

fudge - a very, very stupid person indeed - the implication being that these letters will be their GCSE results.

This seems a little complicated!

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rather worryingly i actually know most of those, use some, and can guess the ones i don't. thank YOU croydon.

things that annoy me:
"laoy dat - forget that.
(Suggested by reader Masum Ullah, Birmingham) "

no. 'Low that.' (Al)low that.

shizzle my nizzle / fo sheezy etc

NO NO NO BBC not just for sure. why are you so scared of whacking in the word nigger which is where it comes from? wusses.

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the worst word to go into the oxford english. bouncebackability. stupid footballism commentators...

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Hang on, 'for shizzle' does mean 'for sure', doesn't it? Even if they do then shy away from explaining 'nizzle', as you say.

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yes but they write the whole fo shizzle ma nizzle so why don't they explain the whole thing? that phrase does not *just* mean 'for sure'.

tis a cop out and annoying me, s'all

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what does it mean?

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as are many of the rest of the slang terms mentioned it is a black thang, stemming from 'for sure, my nigger'

(fo sheezy ma neezy / fo shizzle ma nizzle etc)

i love the sound of it, and did use it a bit.

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ahhhhhhh. it all makes sense now. adding the 'fo' bit clears it all up for me.

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(sadly, i thought it meant play with my nipple)

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brilliant!

cor, any way you used it would be fantastically inappropriate....
(you haven't done so have you? ;) )

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Is that where 'tha shiznit' is derived from? Yes, I was listening to Snoop this morning.

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I thought shiznit was Yiddish.

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or Welsh. One or the other.

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I knew a guy with the surname Isaacs, who was the most Welsh man you ever did see.

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Was attributed to Iain Dowie on the BBC Website! Stupid ugly football managers...

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was it iain? either way, it ANNOYS ME HUGELY!!!! stupid dowie. keep us up next time, sloth!

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carsmilesteve.livejournal.com

he's not stupid, he's an PROPER ROCKET SCIENTIST (i'll give you the ugly though ;))

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Under the rules of this journal, anyone professionally involved with football is deemed to be a drooling imbecile until such time as they cure cancer or invent TARDIS technology. And even then I'll probably say it was luck or a time loop.

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man, you bum the footballists blue, and you knows it. er, fo' shizzle.

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iain dowie *is* that good though

~~if he can work palace back into the premiership again~~

sorry there

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i LOVE the fudge thing - that's very cleva.

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cosmolinguist

crump - a multi-purpose term which can be an insult, an exclamation and a rather explicit sex act.

I was particularly interested in this one, as I live in Crumpsall. I don't know if that's good or bad.

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I would imagine it's probably 'crumping'.

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http://users.livejournal.com/_bianconeri_/

i never knew the bumming was of wider use. we used it at school all the time often with thrusting motions. still use it now if someone dares to express a liking for something.

'new coldpaly album is very good'
'you're bumming it'

'that john bloke from work is ok isnt he?'
'stop bumming him'

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