to ask what Mumsnet words/sayings/things you misunderstood before you found out the real meaning?

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I thought the woo thread is about courting, until I read the thread and realised it's about woo as in ghosts!

I didn't realise "twunt" was a mix of twat and cunt, I thought it was just a non offensive sort of word, a bit like "twit" or "goon" so happily used it everywhere like work and on one occasion, in front of DC's teacher. DH was

Not a mumsnet one but when I stated my law degree there were loads of public law cases called, for example Smith v Shropshire CC or Jones v Staffordshire CC and I was baffled as to why so many cricket clubs were taken to court. I was embarrasingly far into my fist year before I realised CC stood for county council

mrschatty Glad I'm not the only one!

thecolonel yes those cricket clubs are unbelievable. I had trouble with SOC on TA thread. I kept reading it as 'Scene of Crime'. I found out it was the initials of the editor, at that time .

RTFT originally meant "read the fucking thread", and was used as an instruction or advice to do so.

But now posters often use it to mean "read the full thread", as in "I haven't read the full thread, but [insert uninformed opinion here]".

I thought STBXH was Stab The Bastarding Ex Husband had to google eventually as it didn't make sense!

sanity, I always read it as "read the fucking thread", it always really surprises me when it's used somewhere you wouldn't expect a swear or rudeness.

I know Swearwolf.

I always want to correct people, and explain exactly what it actually means, but then, of course, I would be being The Thread Police, so I just smirk to myself, instead.

RTFT does mean read the full thread everywhere else though so that's understandable.

When I got a 'welcome to Mumsnet' posted on a thread I started (about ten years ago, under a different name) I genuinely thought someone was being nice and welcoming.

Oh bless you brag

I'm not being sarcastic or patronising, I found it quite sweet

You know better now, I bet

Did you have an interesting first post too, by the way?

HTH - happy to help

I thought RTFT was some kind of coded insult also

I thought RTFT was some kind of coded insult also blush

It is. Full is the sanitised version for sites that don't allow swearing.

I thought RTFT was an adaptation of RTFM, as in read the fucking manual, so unless specified otherwise, I mentally insert a fuck in there!

I keep seeing people offering and . Just no.

Fucking Cadburys is now a bigger insult than

It is outrageous that cadburys is on here.

I don't understand the biscuit thing? I know it says 'no comment' next to the code for it, but why would you post at all if you had no comment? I think I'm missing something :S

You are taking the biscuit

If I'm addressing addressing a royal pain in the arse on a thread I use,
RTFFT just so they are in no doubt about what I mean.

I have a terrible memory and often forget what TIA stands for.

G & T = Gin and Tonic.
I wondered why so many children were Gin and Tonic/alcoholics

I only came to say STupid Bastard eX Husband. I cannot see it any other way.

I could never understand why people handed out hair-grips or asked for them until someone posted a picture of a hand-grip thingy and I realized it meant 'get a grip' and not 'tie your hair back'

You would use DM even if they're not so dear because it is easier to scan/read in context than just writing M and takes less time to type than 'my mother'.

We're not saying that all our relatives are 'dear' to us; it's just a form of Internet shorthand that makes posts easier to read.

Similarly, you will sometimes see YY for yes - again if you just put Y, some people might read it as "why".

Oh dear, I've signed off HTH before, I thought it meant 'hope to help' and had no idea it was passive aggressive on here! I meant it genuinely! Hope the person I said it to also didn't know about MN's secret code.