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Is my user name vaguely correct?

4 replies

MyGastIsFlabbered · 07/03/2014 10:31

Or should my flabber be gasted/ghasted?

I looked it up but can't find the explanation now and can't quite convince myself that it's right (as right as it can be anyway). Do I need to change it?

OP posts:
PinklePurr · 07/03/2014 10:33

As a general rule my flabber is gasted.

DramaAlpaca · 07/03/2014 10:34

My flabber is definitely gasted.

Your user name, however, is brilliant Grin

Hassled · 07/03/2014 10:41

I don't know but you've led me down an interesting google of the origins of the word. Suffolk, or maybe Scotland. Might come from flabby +aghast, might come from flappy (although someone else thinks flap came later than 1772, when flabbergast was first recorded). So no-one knows - which means whatever your name is is correct.

flakjacket · 07/03/2014 10:43

Or should your flabber be aghast? or are you aghast at your flabber?

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