Why does the work b*u*g*g*e*r get changed

[Alex]

Oh I will Jane!

 

[Shari]

Probably not, do not use them very often anyway.

 

[TriggynBluenDaisy Too]

...Colloquialisms are one thing but real words, with real meanings are another- for example a "fag" at a boys prep school is merely a junior who does menial tasks for a senior boy.

Which, of course, could well be where the colloquial meaning originated!!!

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Well that's interesting Jane, I always thought it only meant a cigarette in the UK. I went to a rock concert in my teens and a band member asked me for a fag. At first I thought he was looking for a guy to hook up with so I was kind of embarrassed and looked at him blankly until someone piped up and said he wanted a cigarette.

At a later time someone complimented me on my new "shag" hair do which was popular at the time. Of course he was there and teased me about having a copulating hair style. Talk about a people separated by a common language, lol.

WAcrapAS You knew I had to find out, lol.

 

[hobbyhorse23]

I am GOBSMACKED I really cannot believe you lot did not know what it meant

I can accept that the connotation is different but not to know the root meaning of the word.......

You do NOT use words of which you do not know the meaning, first rule of any language .

I may not swear much but gosh I sure know who and what I am insulting when I do!!

Now 'Fizz, we knew what it meant! We just didn't think it meant the same thing.

Seriously, I did know it's original definition but then again I'm an odd duck from too much reading as a child. There's an awful lot of 20-letter words I can quote you the Latin roots of and even pronounce correctly but I mispronounce anything French because I was never taught the French sounding of things! Embarrassing to be sure.

It's actually sort of fun to play with the forum filters...darn it all to heck in a handbasket!

Leia

 

[Sue_C.]

"Knocked up" means the same here as it does over there.

Well then...it didn't used to.

I remember a British friend of my Mom's who, when staying over, would tell us to "knock her up in the morning".

 

[Alex]

"Knocked up" means the same here as it does over there.

Well then...it didn't used to.

I remember a British friend of my Mom's who, when staying over, would tell us to "knock her up in the morning".

Yikes!!! lol