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AIBU?

To hate the word ta

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chocolatekimmy · 15/05/2007 22:17

Always pronounced with that aaaahhhh a

(instead of thank you that is)

Drives me nuts, especially when after a child is used to it the mum insists on them saying thank you and correcting them each time!

There are many words a child won't be able to say or pronounce at a young age but we just wait don't we

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SweetyDarling · 16/05/2007 11:17

LostPuppy, I have been told by numerous people that Nana is considered common - MotherRedcap's post below implies the same.
Maybe it's a regional thing?

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LostPuppy · 16/05/2007 11:26

Region certainly comes into it. Nana is more prolific in the North of England as opposed to the south where you'll find more grans, grandmas, grannies and even grandmamas (sic).

I think it is common people that concern themselves with such nonsense anyway, no-one I know gives a monkeys whether you say ta or thankyou, nanny or grandma. It means the same thing and therefore should be interchangeable to people with lives.

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barbamama · 16/05/2007 11:27

I must say I didn't know the Nana thing - we say Nanny - but only becasue that is what ds came up with, we said Granny as children for ours. When we were growing up my Mum always used to say kids are goats not children - but I didn't realise that it was common either - there you go!

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harpsichordcarrier · 16/05/2007 11:29

"Is there anything that isn't class related here FGS!"

errrrrrrr, NOPE! welcome to Britian
Nana os frightfully common.
what about eating in the street snowleopard

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ProfYaffle · 16/05/2007 11:30

I'm proper common.

And northern.

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Beauregard · 16/05/2007 11:33

Oh fgs it is only a word and before you ask yes i say it and Nanna too so if that makes me a 'commoner' then so be it ,i have bigger thing's to worry about.
Next time i am out i shall make sure that i say Ta very loudly and with the accent of a lower class citizen.

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harpsichordcarrier · 16/05/2007 11:45

common as bloody muck, me

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Astrophe · 16/05/2007 11:45

crikey I need a comprehensive list please, of all things common in this country...

Nana
Leaving washing ont he line overnight (who knew????!)
Ta (fair enough )

what else????

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laundrylover · 16/05/2007 11:52

My mum says 'ta' to my girls, I say 'ta' or 'thank you' or 'good girl' (for giving something back etc.) they understand them all and DD1 can say them all in context. Kids are, in general, quick to adapt to language and situations I think.

As for the use of nana, nanny etc. I think it should be just what the Grandparent is comfortable with. We have Grandma and Grandad and also Nanny and Grandpa. We also had Big Nanny (coined by DD1) until recently when she died (dd1 said 'bye-bye Big Nanny' as the curtain closed at the crem). I don't particularly like Grandma Mary etc. or any use of the christian name but it works for some people I guess. Each to their own.

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barbamama · 16/05/2007 11:56

me too, I still don't understand what you are supposed to say instead of toilet when asking where it is in a restaurant (just curious I hasten to add, don't really care).

And is it sofa or settee that is common? Napkin or serviette?

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Astrophe · 16/05/2007 11:59

can't you say toilet?

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Aloha · 16/05/2007 11:59

"loo" is the "correct" word.

Yes, 'ta' is such an objectively horrible sound, isn't it?

Like far, or car or la or ha. All just horrible

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barbamama · 16/05/2007 12:00

Apparently not - that is why the royal family thought Kate Middleton's mother was common.

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OrmIrian · 16/05/2007 12:00

No. "Ta" is horrid.

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Aloha · 16/05/2007 12:00

Serviette common, toilet common, settee common, lounge common.

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barbamama · 16/05/2007 12:01

Is it really loo? Is that what the royal family say? i wondered if it was supposed to be WC? Don't know why I am so obsessed with this?

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barbamama · 16/05/2007 12:02

thanks Aloha, it has been so long since school ....

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Astrophe · 16/05/2007 12:05

No WAY the proper word can't be loo!!! Loo is common! Loo is a kiddies word!!! You're joking aren't you?

Please, somebody help, as I'm an ignorant expat. Ta.

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edam · 16/05/2007 12:09

Aloha's right, motherese (high pitched voices, compressed words, use of 'ee' sounds) is a natural and appropriate way to communicate with babies and small children. It fits with their hearing and their ability to understand speech. And parents have been using it since the dawn of time because they knew all this without being told. It's only in recent times that the 'experts' started to tell people it might somehow hold their children back. Those 'experts' were wrong.

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edam · 16/05/2007 12:10

'Loo' is supposed to be posher than 'toilet'.

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barbamama · 16/05/2007 12:10

I have a horrible feeling it is supposed to be loo you know - that is aht is said in the Sun article about Kate Middleton's mum - but I just thought they'd chaved it up.

Also, what is the word for the evening meal - dinner, tea or supper (or is that the extra one you have if you're still hungry when you get back from the pub, I mean ale house?). I live with a common Northener so this has got really confused in our house as he says dinner for lunch. Ds just says can I have my food now.

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laundrylover · 16/05/2007 12:16

I say lunch and DP say dinner despite the fact that we are both northerners from within 10 miles of eachother. Think I picked up 'lunch' in London but he was there too. DD1 calls any food lunch but eats nothing anyway.

I have trouble believing that loo is posh - will have to call it the shitter from now on to make sure I stick to my roots.

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Aloha · 16/05/2007 12:19

Nope, definitely loo.
You eat lunch in the middle of day and dinner in the evening. Children can eat tea in the late afternoon. Supper tends to be used for informal meals in the evening - 'come for supper' tends to mean pasta in the kitchen instead of three courses in the dining room.
I was brought up in a council house, as it happens.

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barbamama · 16/05/2007 12:20

Yes ds now calls all meals dinner conversely (including breakfast) and would eat all day if you let him. or just says give me food please (followed by thank you I might add).

Do you say bath like my dp or barth like me? I always wonder which he will end up saying as he hears both in equal meausures. Someone told me the area they live in has more influence that the parents so they will say whatever the majority say at school.

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barbamama · 16/05/2007 12:20

Yes ds now calls all meals dinner conversely (including breakfast) and would eat all day if you let him. or just says give me food please (followed by thank you I might add).

Do you say bath like my dp or barth like me? I always wonder which he will end up saying as he hears both in equal meausures. Someone told me the area they live in has more influence that the parents so they will say whatever the majority say at school.

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