my favorite is come hither i use it all the time for no reason

Originally Posted by Rose-Mclane

I have to refrain myself from saying " Ice Box ". My mom still calls the refrigerator an " Ice Box" and I got funny looks up until I was in middle school before people told me that " Ice Box" is not a correct term for a fridge anymore.


I felt Soooooooo stupid.

Don't feel stupid, you are not alone on this one. I learned that term from my grandpa and I still call the fridge and "ice box.":vicky:

I like to use the word wicked a lot. ^.^ But a lot of times I'll spell certain words in an old fashioned way. Like favourite, and theatre.

I do the same thing with those two spellings. People are like, thats not how you spell it. And I just tell them that it truly is. Its funny how many of us pick up words from our parents/grandparents and we dont really grow out of them.

Originally Posted by Krendanya

Do you ever catch yourself using an old fashioned or out of date word in an average conversation?

Then people give you that look. You know that look, maybe with one raised eyebrow?

Anyway.

My grandma always calls her couch a davenport (totally spelling it wrong, but i know how to say it) and it will randomly come out of my mouth when im talking about mine or someone elses couch. Im like, oh:?

Mine does that with "chesterfeild"

i think the word i use most often that my roommate thinks is hilarious is "britches" or "breeches", however you choose to spell it. not really sure why i say it. must have picked it up from my grandma or somebody.

just the other day I used the word "preface" at school. after I said it, i actually was afraid the girl i said it to wouldn't understand what I was saying but I couldn't manage to think of "if you start it with....". i just kept saying, "try to preface it with..." not sure if that's old-fashioned, but i never actually hear people say "preface", just read it in books usually.

Originally Posted by Kris

I also say "snazzy" and "nifty".

I didn't realize snazzy and nifty were out of date. xD I use those constantly.

Honestly, it never really occurred to me that my vocabulary is strange until my teacher started reading off a bunch of sentences all written by my class in a row. Mine just sounded so strange... I guess I have a larger vocabulary than most of my class (although granted, most of them aren't native English speakers) and I think that thus/therefore/hence is a perfectly natural way to transition thoughts together! D: But no one else does that...

i probably do i really dont know, i like to use words that get attention, so i come up with some weird ones lol

Rather than curse out people when I'm mad, I go Shakespearean. Haha, I love seeing their faces..! For the most part they don't even understand the curses, so it kind of just adds a double insult because of their lack of intelligence. :P
Though I only do this when someone deserves it.. >_> And I rarely ever get angry.. haha :sweat:

Originally Posted by Krendanya

Do you ever catch yourself using an old fashioned or out of date word in an average conversation?

Then people give you that look. You know that look, maybe with one raised eyebrow?

Anyway.

My grandma always calls her couch a davenport (totally spelling it wrong, but i know how to say it) and it will randomly come out of my mouth when im talking about mine or someone elses couch. Im like, oh:?

Hahahaha! My grandma used to say "Davenport" also! I loved it I thought it was so adorable. As for me, I often catch myself using the "term" tight in terms of getting or being drunk. It's a 1920s term. I think I picked it up from reading so much Hemingway. People always look at me strangely when I use it, but I kind of like it. I think it's worth bringing back.

@Kidd: I think 'tight' is a great thing to bring back. I used to say that at one point in my life, I believe, but I sort of fell out of the habit.

I regularly use 'tis and 'twas and that sort of thing, and at first people used to look at me funny but now they've just sort of accepted that that is the way I talk. It also bleeds over onto the internet, and I find myself typing those two and other versions of them quite often.

I once called a woman's hat "lovely and quite gay" It was really brite with lots of ribbons. I meant gay as in "fun, brightly colored, and making me smile", yeah, that was the wrong word to use. Sigh, I really really hate that gay is being used as an insult. It is a wonderful word and there is not an equivalent that is as simple.

Originally Posted by Vamien

@Kidd: I think 'tight' is a great thing to bring back. I used to say that at one point in my life, I believe, but I sort of fell out of the habit.

I regularly use 'tis and 'twas and that sort of thing, and at first people used to look at me funny but now they've just sort of accepted that that is the way I talk. It also bleeds over onto the internet, and I find myself typing those two and other versions of them quite often.

Yeah, me too! Let's bring it back! :)

'Tis and 'twas are actually super cute. I'd love it if I heard someone say that while I was talking to them. Shows a lot of personality.

haha i say things like balderdash, noob, gaf, 4 sho, hehe pretty much w/e i feel like using at the time. im not really a big fan of SAT words tho lol. I feel they're usually un-needed in casual conversations lol

In portuguese I know a lot,and my friends look strange at me XD

I was really close to my granny,so I catched lots of things she did and a bit of the way she used to speak. x)

I think that thus/therefore/hence is a perfectly natural way to transition thoughts together! D: But no one else does that...

I use those words all the time. Thus and hence come up in conversation a lot, but therefore usually only comes up when I'm agruing something.

My, like, all-time favorite word is "miffed." It's so great, especially when you want to say "pissed off" but are in more delicate company, not that I say pissed much since I love miffed too much.

My Latin class freshman year also decided to revive the word "lest." It's so much more convenient than saying "so that not," or the more appropriate "in order that __may/ might not." I didn't start using it much until very recently, though. I found somewhere where it fit perfectly and now I want to use it all the time.

I am also obsessed with the whence, hence, thence, whither, hither, thither words. They are so much more conventient than saying to there or from here. Why in the world did we abandon simplicity in the English language? Yeah, like it needs to be more complicated.

I still say poppycock and horse feathers in conversations, mostly to my friends but yes I do get a few odd looks from others.

piddle..

"Stop piddling around!"

lol

it means to take your time.

Originally Posted by Lady_Megami

piddle..

"Stop piddling around!"

lol

it means to take your time.

My mother uses this. You did know that some people use piddle instead of pee right? As in the dog piddled on the floor.

"Amy stop piddling around and come on," was my mothers more clean version of "stop ^&*^&*off and get a move on."

I say Drat alot. Like when my boyfriend is being just a little annoying in a funny kind of way, I'll say something like "Drat you!" Oh and Phooey. "Ah Phooey! I dropped my phone."

I use old-timey words. 8D But just for fun. :p And mostly when I'm talking to my sister.
I like complimenting her by saying "you're SWELL. ;D " and stuff like that o3o

One thing that really used to bug my teachers was the way I spelled things. Since I was a kid I've been spelling word like "color" like "colour" :/ And all my teachers would tell me THIS IZ AMERKUH, NOT ENGLAND. >:I I like the english's english better. 8D and that's the way I taught it to myself, so that's the way it's gonna be. >:I that's kinda old-timey, in regards to how we USED to spell things xB

I use some oldish words. xD 'Nifty', 'fiddlesticks', and 'the bees-knees' are the ones I use the most. I know they aren't too old, but they're much older than me. :D

My speaking vocabulary is so bad, but I retain a lot of words or phrases from reading and every so often one will pop out in conversation >___<

The one I got the weirdest look for was "How queer!" I meant it as 'odd' and said it without even thinking. I literally facepalm'd and was like, "I meant it as odd, not in a 'that's so gay' way, which I hate!" D:

Not so old, but out of date 'da bomb'. I say it a lot. I don't even think about it xDDD

I say shall a lot. And sometimes I say dingbat and numbnuts. But other than that, not really. xD

For some reason I use a lot of 20s slang. I say "None of your beeswax" (because my parents do), and how, pipe down (also from my parents), spiffy, swanky, wet blanket, and occasionally 'You slay me'.
I also call people 'odd duck', 'odd bird', 'deep file', and 'card' (as in, "You're such a card"), all of which are pretty outdated.
I say 'shall' and 'shan't', which I don't here a lot of other people my age saying. I say 'gay' to mean joyful on occasion.
And I shout "Gardyloo!" whenever I'm throwing something down from anywhere, which was 'a cry formerly used in Scotland to warn pedestrians when waste was about to be thrown from an upstairs window.'