Naice...

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... "It makes my teeth itch". This will start a "bun fight" because the op is a "goady" fucker.

AIBU to interpret this as just MN version of the hashtag, or bffs or lols or hun?

I see certain fads sweeping through and I find it interesting. If it is different, what is the difference?

I still don't understand brap, but now I do understand Dacta. Am filing this in my folder marked "evidence the british are mad".

I believe naice came from someone mistyping nice (about ham, I think), and people liked it to refer to the slightly 'posher' end of products eg. naice ham, naice boots etc would refer to the more expensive ham, boots etc rather than the 'basic' ones. Also means if you are talking about more expensive products you can just put naice rather than explaining in more words that it wasn't the basic ham, but 'extra special'...

I do stand to be corrected if I am wrong.

FOUND MY SOURCE the internet delivers! I should be working much harder than I am (in my defence we had a computer problem today)

Anyway lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/414/024/RUG01-001414024_2010_0001_AC.pdf is an essay on Christie's Miss Marple novels and on pg 45 there is a passage from and commentary on Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder from 1976, which is sadly later than I would like: "Mrs Cocker is the cook who works for Giles and Gwenda. She is “a lady of condescending graciousness” (15). She puts on a “genteel” accent in order to suggest that she is of a better class than she really is. (Cf “’It is quaite a naice room, madam, though small”
[emphasis added] [16].) It matches her “condescending graciousness”. As she is a servant putting on an accent, I think she is lower- class."

Letting the conclusion be the author's own, let the record show that "naice" has been around since at least -76. I'm thinking earlier but am not at home with my extensive crime fiction library at the moment.

OP:
Yes it is a really silly "word". I hate "gives me the rage", too. AND the teeth itching one. I think some posters try to curry favour with certain others by using the terms, as if they are hoping using them will signal they belong to an exclusive club. Haha

TinyRick

'Naice' originally came from a shopping list a couple of years back that an OP found and it had 'naice ham' written on it.

It was probably a misspelling.

Hubby is an awful term.

I hate all the D this and D that. Ugh

"Also wanted to add that I think people on a forum that unironically uses the DH/DC etc acronyms so ubiquitously need to be veeeeery careful about being snotty about other language choices"

I'm not at all sure that is the case. The MN idiolect does not have to be logical. It is, like every other slang of a community (int eras of both what it includes and what it excludes) a powerful marker of the nature of the community.

Other communities may well find MN speech habits unbearable, but they are exactly that - 'other' and it doesn't matter how daft they find another community. Indeed the disparagement of outsiders is a reinforcer of the essential bonded community.

The purpose of language is communication; 'naice' conveys a shade of meaning which 'nice' doesn't. 'Nice' is such a weak adjective anyway in its current usage that it's surely hardly worth defending?

My mug arrived with its handle broken, so it serves as a penholder - adequate to the task but sadly not naice.

I remember niace starting on MN. The OP had actually lost her shopping list and had written 'nice ham' on it and had lost it and was 'embarrassed' about someone finding it.

IIRC she may have had nice Ham for one kid and prossesed Ham for the other. Funny thread that one.

As long as it wasn't Billy Bear and naice ham on the same list.

This thread is the earliest reference I could find on MN

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/34643-local-v-good-state-primary-has-a-place-for-ds

No ham or shopping lists in sight, but a description of a type of person/lifestyle

the D thing here is actually the untimate in wanky

As others have said MN is a community.

It's been around long enough to have developed a history and a number of shibboleths.

Some community words such as naice or quiche for example have stories attached to them which newer members might not have heard yet so they regard them as pretentious, or exclusive whereas to longstanding members they are just like "kitchen sink terms" which most families use. They are just funny words, with a story - usually starting with a mistake or a joke.

It's really not worth the angst people assign them with.

You don't have to use them if you don't like them.

I remember the shopping list threads, and the naive ham one.
I always thought norks and fnar were MN words

Naice > not naive bloody AC

Cremola ''tis age...

I do remember that MNers used to say:

ODFOTTFSOFAWYGTFOSM

a lot but you rarely see it now. Hopefully we aren't getting more polite?

Naice from the ham has been around for years, vair, blardy, norks and farking were all commonly used too although they don't seem as popular by today.

For me there are certain terms which are MN naice being one of them, the face is another.

If you don't like it don't use it. I hate 'are you on glue'

Oh dear. I write "naice" when in real life I'd be giving two thumbs up and doing a Borat impression.

I learned fanjo from MN.
And "Are you on glue" is from Legally Blonde, I think. Although she says "Am I in glue, or..."

"On", not in!

Remember the Line? I never partook, natch.

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Words I only associate with MNettyness - norks, fanjo and pop... people are always popping on MN - pop in, pop to the shops, pop to the doctor, pop, pop, pop!!!!!!!

Oh, and "No is a complete sentence"