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Wtf ambo? Inspo? Sainsbo?

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Bloopbleep · 21/03/2017 10:23

I probably am being unreasonable and particularly old/middle aged but wtf is the deal with ending words with bo and po?

I regularly see posts referring to sainsbo (Sainsbury's) and it took me ages to work out wtf they meant. Same with ambo (ambulance) and inspo (inspiration)

I am a very literal person and it takes me ages to decode these bastardisations of words. Do people actually speak like ''tis in real life or is it an online phenomenon? Is this some yummy mummy language (I only see it in places like mn) or am I just not down wit da yoof?

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Bloopbleep · 21/03/2017 10:23

*this

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SaucyJack · 21/03/2017 10:25

Is it an Australian thing?

I always read it in an Aussie accent anyway.

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CaoNiMartacus · 21/03/2017 10:51

It's annoying. Likewise "ers" on the end of words. Honkers for Hong Kong, etc.

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FairytalesAreBullshit · 21/03/2017 10:54

If I'm entirely honest I feel like I should be casting my pension now as young folk talk in a completely different language, they get as embarrassed as I do when I ask what it means.

I can't recall any particular words from my youth that we solely made up. Maybe I'm wrong.

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elQuintoConyo · 21/03/2017 10:55

Of your 3, I have only come across Sainsbo's or Sainsbug's. From my dad. And he used to say Honkers...

Lordy - have you all been talking to my dad?

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Noctilucent · 21/03/2017 10:56

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Bellerophon · 21/03/2017 10:59

YANBU

the worst of this clownish babytalk however is "fanjo", what a ridiculous word.

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Notso · 21/03/2017 11:14

Most of the people I know who use Sainsbo's and Honkers are my parents and their friends, older than middle aged.

Never heard ambo though.

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Bellybootcut · 21/03/2017 11:32

Sanpro. Hate that one. No need for it.

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tornadedeviande · 21/03/2017 12:51

I always assume that people who use this type of word don't know how to spell the full word. I don't know how true that is, though.

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TheNaze73 · 21/03/2017 12:56

People that say those thinks, tend to be wankos. Does my head in too

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AnitaPallenbergsKnees · 21/03/2017 12:59

Glasto drives me mad.....

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WorraLiberty · 21/03/2017 12:59

YANBO

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AnitaPallenbergsKnees · 21/03/2017 13:00

Wankos, now that has really made me laugh - brilliant!!!

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profbadbride · 21/03/2017 13:36

I once stared at a colleague in mute horror as she told me she didn't really fancy sambos.

Turns out she's not an appalling racist, she just doesn't like sandwiches.

How "sandwiches" gets shortened to "sambos" is a mystery to me.

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WhatWouldKeanuDo · 21/03/2017 13:45

Via sammidge perhaps?

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jay55 · 21/03/2017 13:50

Surely sarnies is the shortening for sandwiches.

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elQuintoConyo · 21/03/2017 13:50

I have just this minute come across 'ambo' on the fireman thread! Weird.

I did threaten DH with divorce when he kept saying 'Frisco instead of San Francisco, to the locals, on our honeymoon Blush

And profbadbride yabu, sandwiches are sangers in our house Grin or a hamwich.

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WhatWouldKeanuDo · 21/03/2017 13:53

We spent the night in Frisco,
At every kind of disco..

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profbadbride · 21/03/2017 13:54

Sarnies or sangers are definitely safer options!Smile

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Grilledaubergines · 21/03/2017 13:55

When we were in Ireland a sandwich was referred to as a "sambo" by all the locals Hmm.

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WhatWouldKeanuDo · 21/03/2017 13:56

Anyone had a Parmo?

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Isitjustmeorisiteveryoneelse · 21/03/2017 13:57

Not new though, my Dad used to say Chrimbo years ago. Even as a small child I hated it! Also years ago working in the city, HSBC was know as Honkers and Shankers in the dealing room. Grrrr.

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Jackiebrambles · 21/03/2017 13:57

Sanpro irrationally makes me want to vomit. I don't know why it annoys me so much!

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Bloopbleep · 21/03/2017 13:57

Wtf is a parmo?

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