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Original poster

To dislike the term "fell pregnant"?

87 replies

BitOfFun · 21/02/2011 15:19

You didn't. Unless you actually tripped and accidentally slipped onto a cock that you couldn't possibly have known was in the room. You are the Virgin Mary, it should not have been a surprise, you had sex, yu did not "fall pregnant".

That is all. I thangyow.

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Bideyin · 21/02/2011 15:20

I hate it too :)

Original poster
BitOfFun · 21/02/2011 15:21

You are not the Virgin Mary, sorry. I can't type very well on my phone. So glad this isn't in Pedants' Corner.

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yama · 21/02/2011 15:22

Better than upduffed.

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BitOfFun · 21/02/2011 15:25

No it's not! Upduffed is at least trying to be funny. Fell Pregnant is all faux-naive whoopsiedaisy.

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beautyspot · 21/02/2011 15:27

Drives me nuts too. Everytime I hear it.

KazBarTFG · 21/02/2011 15:27

What would you suggest instead of fell pregnant...

GwendolineMaryLacey · 21/02/2011 15:28

Didn't little olden days ladies say they'd fallen? I think that was when you went to prison for saying the word pregnant.

cheekeymonkey · 21/02/2011 15:29

I hate it too, it reminds me of victorian fallen ladies! I heard whatsherface on This Morning say it the other day, made her sound like a right chav!

GwendolineMaryLacey · 21/02/2011 15:30

THat's a point. Women with loose morals were called fallen women, weren't they? Curiouser and curiouser...

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BitOfFun · 21/02/2011 15:31

I don't have to suggest anything- there is any number of ways you can describe it using plain English. The kind of people who say Fell Pregnant make themselves sound like morons.

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cheekeymonkey · 21/02/2011 15:31

Wish I knew how to add Smileys to my posts:(

chandellina · 21/02/2011 15:32

YABU. i think it is a charming phrase, particularly when it happens to someone who has been trying actively for years and who can take an amused pleasure in the passivity of the description.

KirstyJC · 21/02/2011 15:33

I agree completely - drives me bonkers! What can you say instead of 'fell pregnant'? Er, how about 'got pregnant'?

Psammead · 21/02/2011 15:37

Meh.

Language is full of euphemisms.

It's quicker than 'partook in coitus resulting in the successful fertilisation of ova or ovum'

It's not half as twee as 'with child' or incorrect as 'we're pregnant'

Original poster
BitOfFun · 21/02/2011 15:40

Yes- got pregnant at least implies some agency in the matter. The Fell Pregnant worst offenders are not usually older women who tried for years either. They are generally younger ones who fell on a spotty yoof's cock.

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OliveMalay · 21/02/2011 15:40

"became pregnant"?

KenDoddsDadsDog · 21/02/2011 15:40

Not as bad as "we're pregnant".

EricNorthmansMistress · 21/02/2011 15:41

Yes! Even worse 'when I fell with DS' I've heard that one before. Fell where? Was he ok? Oh, you mean when you became pregnant with DS... Hmm

BooyFuckingHoo · 21/02/2011 15:42

back in the day i would have 'gotten mesel' into trouble' Wink

KazBarTFG · 21/02/2011 15:42

become pregnant perhaps...

YankNCock · 21/02/2011 15:43

I'd never heard 'fell pregnant' until I moved to the UK and I had much the same reaction as the OP.

YANBU.

Grin at 'spotty yoof'

laosvher · 21/02/2011 15:44

Conceived?
I agree, I always Hmm when I see 'fell pregnant'.
Also 'caught pregnant' or something similar.

LemonDifficult · 21/02/2011 15:45

YANBU

There was a thread on this quite recently I think. Very irritating phrase. As though you were asleep when it happended.

Debs75 · 21/02/2011 15:48

Iv'e never heard 'fell pregnant' but I am surprised the 'got caught' hasn't come up yet.

Tolalola · 21/02/2011 15:49

YANBU. 'Fell pregnant' makes my teeth itch every time someone says it. Horrible.