Super instead of very

[MarmMummy]

Please could someone tell me why I have stopped saying very and seem to be saying super?!

In our house we now seem to be 'super busy', 'super tired' etc

Have I turned into an over excited mummy of two children, are my American/Canadian NCT friends to blame, or have I just lost the plot?

Oh my god are you me? I have found this over the last few days - "super fast walking" "super quick" etc. I am annoying myself. Maybe there is some "super" virus going around causing it as I dont hang around with Canadians anymore since we moved so can't even blame them.

Or you're just using a shortened version of the word superlatively.

Tis very American thought isn't it? I blame tv

I use 'f*cking' instead - gets me point across better

supermassiveblackhole

f*ckingcallafragalisticexpialidocious doesn't have quite the same ring to it though, does it?

Sophable? Where have you been woman? Good to see you. Super is American surely. You'll be saying 'neat' next.

this has been happening since about 1870 - things, esp clothes, are described as 'superfine' in novels of the Little Women era

Totally! Super-totally! Über all over the place also gets my goat.

It's like the ever-growing number of blades on a gillette razor. Eventually it'll all just get too much and we'll revert to one blade, and just being busy, happy or whatever it was.

pofaced. who are you?

i know i know loads of people and they've all got new names and i don't know who they are!!!

I used to begin with r and end with y.

ahhhhh! hello!!!!

I thought you'd gone forever. Glad you haven't. [apologies for super-hijack.]