Wtf ambo? Inspo? Sainsbo?

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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?

*this

Is it an Australian thing?

I always read it in an Aussie accent anyway.

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

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.

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?

YANBU

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

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.

Sanpro. Hate that one. No need for it.

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.

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

Glasto drives me mad.....

YANBO

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

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.

Via sammidge perhaps?

Surely sarnies is the shortening for sandwiches.

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

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

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

Sarnies or sangers are definitely safer options!

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

Anyone had a Parmo?

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.

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

Wtf is a parmo?