Oh my days is the most twee phrase ever

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Just that. AIBU?

I've never seen it on here, but my teen says it on occasion. She's quite posh so it does sound funny.

I am guilty of "oh my goodness" "goodness me" however.

The teens round here (Home Counties) use this phrase instead of “Oh My God” or “oh em gee” (omg) so it’s far from twee to my ears.

I hate it with a passion

I find it funny it's become seen as twee when it started off as bad man slang amongst the kind of kids I taught in E/SE London who carried machetes in about 2010.

That’s definitely not where it started!

It's been around for a very long time.

I'm in the North too and it sets my teeth on edge. My friend says it and want to tell her to pack it in.

My guess was that it's an old phrase that has been reintroduced by youth. I can imagine one of those head-scarfed incredibly articulate ladies being interviewed by the BBC in London in the 1950s coming out with it.

It's better than 'shut the front door' which I find baffling

From the OED:

There was a lovely character in Eastenders years ago (Fatboy, I think) who used to say it all the time. As I recall he was really kind and thoughtful and got murdered , hidden in a car boot and squished to oblivion in a car-crushing facility.

I only know a couple of people who use the phrase and they use it as an alternative to ‘Oh my word’. I live in the SE, middle class area.

I live in east London and most of the people who say it here are not twee at all. Bit rough if anything.

I don't say it but i do say oh my life, goodness me, good grief...

But I'm a primary teacher. I've had to train myself to use alternatives to "fuck me!" And "bollocks" as exclamations in case they ever slip out at work 😅🙈

I guess phrases become more twee once adopted by MN

When people want to travel, I don't think south London is what they have in mind!

I think it sounds quite sweet, better than hearing kids swear all the time. But its original usage was twee.

Yabu though because 'poorly' is much worse. 'Shut the front door' is ridiculous - why can't they say 'shut the fuck up', like normal people!

i thought it was an Afro Caribbean thing. I heard middle aged ladies say it back in early 2000. If it’s an old English saying that could make sense.

When people want to travel, I don't think south London is what they have in mind!

I live in the north and I've taken my dc to London every year of their lives. One is doing Othello for her A levels so we are going to see that at Easter.

I would never have said it was twee. To my London ears it will always sound rough and aggressive. I think it’s telling that the people who say it sounds twee mostly live in places where people don’t actually say it out loud.

Around here it is said regularly and has a connotation that is about as far away from twee as it’s possible to get.

Sarf London here, used to avoid blaspheming which does offend me and is very likely to have the same effect on anyone I’m talking to, especially at work.
Didn’t notice I said it until Home Counties friends commented on it.

In what context would he use it then?
It just sounds twee and terribly English to me..

MN favourite; you do you, your body your choice, sick of them

I fucking hate it so much!! I can just imagine my stepson saying it when he was a teenager, makes my skin crawl

Why isn’t anyone saying it’s Afro-Caribbean?

I’ve heard it for 30 odd years and think of it as a church-going lady thing (avoids saying God) that has been taken over by a younger generation

It is used in London all the time. It is often accompanied by an eye roll/laughter when someone has done something irritating/silly. It isn’t aggressive but that doesn’t make it twee.

Why are people so obsessed with insulting other people’s colloquialisms on MN?!

’You was unreasonable’

’Oh my days’

’Wash the pots’

It’s relentless.