What words or phrases have you noticed you don't use any more.

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I said i had to go to the ATM at lunch time yesterday.
It occurred to me people used to refer to it as ' the hole in the wall' - well they did where I live.
I've not heard that expression in years!!!
Someone must have decided to stop using it!
I have also realised we don't say a child i with SEN is having a melt down but they are ' in crisis '

I find evolving language fascinating and like how things change and people adapt. It's not like there an announcement on News at 10 with clive Myrie telling us things like we don't use words like hole in the wall anymore! 😆

'Plain' chocolate. No one says that any more.

Also remember when A&E was 'Casualty'. They even created a telly programme! Do kids today wonder why there's a show entitled 'Casualty' I wonder? (If it's still on that is, I don't actually know!)

No one I know says ATM. We say cash machine or hole in the wall. If you said ATM you’d be classed as watching too much American TV.

Interestingly here it's that A&E is outdated - though you will hear it - they were all renamed Emergency Departments, EDs, years ago.

No one I know says ATM. We say cash machine or hole in the wall. If you said ATM you’d be classed as watching too much American TV.
That's really interesting because in the tiger way eiubd! 😆
Re American tv. Ive heard the kids I work with refer to the police as the 'Feds' and that they are going g to call 911!

911 works as well as 999 in this country so the children you work with are not wrong

911 works as well as 999 in this country so the children you work with are not wrong
Maybe but it's a bit weird when they say it in an American accent and they are from Salford!

I suspect the kids in question really are trying to sound American. God knows why they think it's cool but I guess social media influence. I mentioned "half a dozen" eggs to someone much younger (not a child) the other day and I might as well have been speaking Japanese. A few months ago I also said "I've dropped a clanger". Bemused reactions all round.

Bumchums!
chinny reckon!

Ahem.

Our ATM in the village is labelled above it "The hole in the wall". They redid it a couple of years ago and put a new sign, so it's not like it's been left for ages.

Chinny chin chin whilst stroking your chin when someone was telling a tall tale (school 1970s NE Scotland).

Loved the chinny reckon or Tutankhamen 😂

Also the word ponce, used to hear it all the time when I was a kid, never heard it now.

And kids calling stuff 'mint' if it was good

The Tutankhamen!!!!

I agree re ponce… I think people are too scared it’s confused with nonce…

What's the Tutenkhamen?

Ha, was coming on to say chinny reckon - glad to see it's not completely died a death!

It’s essentially a chinny reckon. Go look at T’s death mask and the long chin thing…very strokeable!

My kids now in their 30s used to say "Stroke ma beardie" for this.

bloody hell defo not heard these in years. I'm guessing you're a similar age to me!

Does anyone remember saying "shellings" which meant embarrassed or embarrassing, late 80s early 90s? not heard that one for many years

Kentucky instead of KFC.

No one seems to say “McDonald’s” anymore, it’s Maccie D or just Donald’s

Watched Kevin Bridges live the other week and he used the word dweeb, which I’ve not heard since school. See also dork.

Moron as in the song Gordon is a moron and that had to bad for any kid named Gordon.late 70s iirc.

Any sayings based on Cockney rhyming slang, eg let me go and have a butcher’s, I couldn’t give a monkey’s, let’s go for a Ruby, etc

Bumming for anal sex

I've always called it a cash machine and I think most people do, based on what I've heard. To me, ATM is American and 'hole in the wall' is a slightly humorous word for it rather than the normal name.