'That's well good'

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My daughter (in her twenties) uses the word 'well' instead of very / really.

'That's well interesting'
'That's a well sweet message'
And 'wellllll good'

Is this normal? It's very annoying. She started when she was a teen and I hoped she'd grow out of it. I cringe a bit when I hear it / worry it might make her look immature at work.

I know that IAMBU to care but please tell me - is this how all young people speak?

Very 80s
the equivalent de nos jours is 'bare'
A school asked students to reflect on it in 2013
"Calm"

Honestly I know I still say stuff like that, phrases that I used in my teens, usually without thinking - my work colleagues used to find it hysterically funny because otherwise I talk with a "nice" home counties accent so it stood out more, but some habits just stick.

Im in my early 30s and I sometimes use ‘well’ to mean very when chatting informally, it never really occurred to me that it would be seen as annoying, to be honest I thought as a phrase it was in fairly common usage.

I caught myself describing something as "wicked" the other day, where the fuck did that come from?!

Very 90s! I find it strange when adults speak like this though.

It's a south east England dialect thing. I remember everyone saying it growing up in Essex in the 90s.

Common in London and surrounding areas.

Ha it obviously hasn't held her back at work! She probably doesn't say it there anyway.
My family and I use a word around my mum that we wouldn't care about elsewhere because she hates it so much.
Perhaps she's using it to wind you up.
Sorry OP!

Last time I heard this mon ironically was circa 2003

We need to bring back the word "naff"

@MedusasBadHairDay

What on earth does "goated" mean??

From the phrase, “the GOAT.”

Greatest Of All Time.

I was already at work in the 90s and I'm sure I've heard it all my life, I'm pretty surprised that anyone hasn't tbh.

It wouldn't particularly stand out to me in normal conversation although if I used it it would be ironically

I am sure she doesn’t say it at work! It would really irritate me if a colleague spoke like a member of oasis

@CrotchBurn

We need to bring back the word "naff"

I still hear it sometimes in the context of "naff off". Not meaning "uncool".

Definitely a couple of decades out - remember "Well'ard" from Eastenders? the dog?

So long as she doesn't use it in the office, I guess it's not a big problem!

There is nothing grammatically wrong about using the word “well” as you would use the word “very”. It has been used like this for hundreds of years. Your daughter is simply using a turn of phrase that has rather fallen out of fashion, but that remains grammatically sound.

I'm Welsh and similarly use mega.

My daughter calls me fam she's 10 🙄

@Ideasplease322 she moved in with us during lockdown as she lives in a flat share with limited space and she does.

She is desperate to progress and I can't imagine Partners at her law firm speaking like that.

@ThumbWitchesAbroad

Definitely a couple of decades out - remember "Well'ard" from Eastenders? the dog?

So long as she doesn't use it in the office, I guess it's not a big problem!

We had a teacher called Mr Wellard at the same time, you can imagine what he had to listen to

I would look askance at a solicitor who spoke like that - but she's not going to take any notice of her mum pulling her up on it.

Agreed, it's very 90s. It also strikes me as something people say down south.

I use it sometimes, I was born and raised in Oxfordshire, but now live in Cambs in a town with lots of people from London and Essex, so probably something I've picked up. It's just another way of saying 'very' or 'really' and doesn't bother me none.

Does she do it at work? I though she was a teenager until you said she was knocking on thirty and a lawyer

My daughter is 23, trainee lawyer, she’s working from home next to me. I can assure you from what I can hear, neither her or any of the solicitors, partners, or barristers she speaks to say “that’s well good” or anything similar. They are all well spoken,

@MedusasBadHairDay

I caught myself describing something as "wicked" the other day, where the fuck did that come from?!

My mum says wicked. She’s 63