Words no longer used.....

odyssey06 · 18-06-2021 3:48pm

mehico wrote: »

Sometimes you see the word "ilk" used on Boards but I don't think I have ever heard anyone use it in a conversation in person.

There's probably a whole sub-thread in that about words only used in print \ online but not in conversation.

Wibbs · 18-06-2021 5:12pm

I'd use ilk often enough tbh. eg "someone of that ilk".

18-06-2021 5:16pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I'm going to regret this, but get your arm up where exactly?

Up the sheath, the house where the penis lives like a sword in a scabbard.

Your arm goes in very far, you have to reach to the elbow, it's fcuking weird.

Hamsterchops · 18-06-2021 5:22pm

Parley (meet, discuss).

silliussoddius · 18-06-2021 5:51pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Yeah, but BC and AD don't make any sense either, since (as I know you know), neither count time from the year Jesus was born.

Either way, it's just a convention. And conventions don't necessarily make any sense.

You could always say that it's pc to base a calendar around the birth of someone important to one religion, and the whole existence question etc.
But changing the term while still referring to the same time frame is pointless.

EmmetSpiceland · 18-06-2021 5:56pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Up the sheath, the house where the penis lives like a sword in a scabbard.

Your arm goes in very far, you have to reach to the elbow, it's fcuking weird.

I dunno, ATNM, that sounds illegal.

Leg End Reject · 18-06-2021 5:56pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Up the sheath, the house where the penis lives like a sword in a scabbard.

Your arm goes in very far, you have to reach to the elbow, it's fcuking weird.

Vile.

18-06-2021 6:23pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Vile.

*accidentally **** off a horse* "What a bunch of prudes"

Back to old words for things, a thill is an old word you don't hear much of -- refers to a shaft, as in the shaft of a garden shovel or the beam of a cart. Probably somehow related to 'tiller', they both come from old french words for wooden shafts. (Get your minds out of the gutter.)

Will o'the wisp: bending the rules, as it's an expression instead of a word, but that's another one most younger people woudln't know: a rare sighting on bogs and moors, it's where a light appears to flicker just above the ground, due to the oxidation of Phosphine. Also called Jacky the Lantern.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/folklore-of-ireland/folklore-in-ireland/traditional-storytelling/the-folktale/types-of-folktales/the-smith-and-the-devil-(/

iamstop · 18-06-2021 6:35pm

Phonograph
8-track
VCR

Kewreeuss · 18-06-2021 7:07pm

bocaman wrote: »

Slacks

I think American men wear them still. Maybe �� Not jeans, not trousers that are part of a suit or businessy,something in between. I’ve come across them in books. Strange because I always thought slacks were 1950 and 60’s female trousers. Or pants as they are there.

You don’t hear twinset anymore or mantilla

whisky_galore · 18-06-2021 9:56pm

Footpad.
Cutpurse.
Vagabond.
Itinerant.
Aviatrix.

Rket4000 · 18-06-2021 10:33pm

Tilden Katz wrote: »

Cringeworthy. It's mostly been replaced by cringey. I still persevere in using cringeworthy though. It's far more satisfying to say.

In the same vein, everyone is sooooo judgy nowadays instead of judgemental

riclad · 18-06-2021 10:38pm

bbs, old forums used before broadband existed.
dial up bulletin board.
slacks is still a common word in america.
jazz mags.
old word for porn mags.
reefer old word for hash.
weblog old word for blog.

Aglomerado · 19-06-2021 12:34am

Jackanapes - for a person with the intelligence of horse Smegma.

Scribbler100 · 19-06-2021 8:51am

"Get the messages", meaning "Do the shopping".

Badly Drunk Boy · 19-06-2021 9:53am

Mimon wrote: »

Yeh, when did this change and why? Suddenly had this new BCE sh!te forced on us :mad: Don't even know the new AD term.

I started a Bible-related college course in 1991, and BCE and CE were the terms used then, in that academic situation. Not in the real world, though.

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Ludramaun

I use that the odd time, but just because it was a word my father used a lot, so I'm just keeping it alive for him.

bocaman wrote: »

Slacks

Last weekend, my brother (who's younger than me) asked me if I ever wear slacks. :eek: (I don't.) And he has never been anywhere near America.

SouthWesterly · 19-06-2021 9:58am

Superfluity...

NewbridgeIR · 19-06-2021 10:21am

"I'll have a mineral" (when offered a drink and you want a soft one)

odyssey06 · 19-06-2021 10:23am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

"I'll have a mineral" (when offered a drink and you want a soft one)

I still see it listed on menus rather than soft drink.
Must confuse the hell outta furriners.

johndaman66 · 19-06-2021 10:57am

Film (now commonly called a movie).

Chemist (now commonly called a Pharmacy). It's probably a reflection of where the industry has gone more than the commonly used name shifting from chemist to pharmacy but....to me chemist conjures up an image of an well seasoned old guy in a white coat and glasses knowing exactly whats needed to sort that itchy flaky sack, invariably often saving you a trip to the doctor for anything that is over the counter. Pharmacy on the other hand conjures up an image of a place more interested in shifting Hugo Boss and 500 ml bottles of coke zero.

Conservatory (now commonly called a sun room).

Match as in rugby, football, hurling match etc (now more commonly called the game).

Solicitor (now more commonly called lawyer for some reason - possibly will become attorney in a few years time?)

Bear with me - so 2002 at this stage!

The Continental Op · 19-06-2021 11:00am

johndaman66 wrote: »

Film (now commonly called a movie).

..

So thats how it was spelt I thought it was "Fillim"

theoneeyedman · 19-06-2021 11:02am

Shop.

There are no 'shops' any more, only stores. WTF?

There is probably some marketing psycho babble reason behind it, but everything here now is a furniture store, a hardware store, etc etc... Bullsh1t

Terry.. · 19-06-2021 11:04am

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Shop.

There are no 'shops' any more, only stores. WTF?

There is probably some marketing psycho babble reason behind it, but everything here now is a furniture store, a hardware store, etc etc... Bullsh1t

Probably an Americanism

Shop at a store

Sgt Hartman · 19-06-2021 11:06am

"I' th'" instead of "in the" from Shakespearean English, for Example "How came my man i' th' stocks?" instead of "How come my man is in the stocks?" It was a line I remember from studying King Lear in school.

"Gout' instead of "Go out" and "Goin" instead of "Go in" was quite common in Limerick but it has completely fallen out of use in recent years..

Wibbs · 19-06-2021 11:48am

The Continental Op wrote: »

So thats how it was spelt I thought it was "Fillim"

Probably something of Hiberno English thing, a holdover from older English. So Shakespeare would have said "Fillum" and that was retained more here. In the original printings of Hamlet IIRC it's spelled "Fillum". Press instead of cupboard another holdover from older English, as is shores instead of drains I mentioned earlier.

odyssey06 · 19-06-2021 1:08pm

Hollyspud wrote: »

Henceforth

Aha is that what we used to say before 'going forwards'?

Bobblehats · 19-06-2021 1:09pm

H

Hollyspud wrote: »

Henceforth

I say it all the time its like go; henceforth. To wence you came!

Also end up sayin fillum loads but that's pure coincidental. Just good english.. :rolleyes:

whisky_galore · 19-06-2021 1:12pm

Water closet.

Pantry.

Garret. (Think property agencies call them "studio apartments" now.

)

Gwynplaine · 19-06-2021 1:32pm

Hucksters, Kipeens, Foldoddle.

Who knows their meaning?

Bobblehats · 19-06-2021 1:45pm

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Hucksters, Kipeens, Foldoddle.

Who knows their meaning?

Huckster is somebody who pushes their wares
Foldoddle is a thingamejig.?
Kipeen is a small stick; although being phased out by bigger sticks nowadays

Ish66 · 19-06-2021 2:09pm

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

wooing as well

Doing a line

EmmetSpiceland · 19-06-2021 2:10pm

Do kids say “ekker” for homework these days.

Ash.J.Williams · 19-06-2021 2:11pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Rig out, as in an entire outfit.

I happy that one died, it always irritated me.

I use that regularly because it’s gone

Ash.J.Williams · 19-06-2021 2:12pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Do kids say “ekker” for homework these days.

No

Beasty · 19-06-2021 2:12pm

Wherefore (art thou) - barely heard since Frankie Howard's heyday

Ash.J.Williams · 19-06-2021 2:49pm

Ish66 wrote: »

Doing a line

That’s more of a chemical relationship nowadays

the purple tin · 19-06-2021 2:51pm

Ammint.

Westernyelp · 19-06-2021 5:33pm

Ish66 wrote:

Doing a line

Doing a strong line even.

Badly Drunk Boy · 19-06-2021 5:45pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Ammint.

I amn't a fan of the 'correct' standard version of this. I think "amn't" is another of those words that we clung on to in Ireland from that earlier version of English.

silverharp · 19-06-2021 6:10pm

perished with the cold

dxhound2005 · 19-06-2021 6:20pm

One which might surprise those not familiar with Ulster idioms, is starved/starving with the cold.

https://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/starved-with-the-cold

Marhay70 · 19-06-2021 6:20pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

Huckster is somebody who pushes their wares
Foldoddle is a thingamejig.?
Kipeen is a small stick; although being phased out by bigger sticks nowadays

I would always call a junk shop or a shop that sold bric a brac, a huckster shop and my late father in law always referred to matches as cipeens. It's an Irish word.

odyssey06 · 19-06-2021 6:22pm

Ger Canning commentating on the soccerball described Hungary as 'doughty' opponents...
I think Ger is about the only person still using that word.

19-06-2021 8:16pm

Marhay70 wrote: »

I would always call a junk shop or a shop that sold bric a brac, a huckster shop and my late father in law always referred to matches as cipeens. It's an Irish word.

I used to be sent out to get cippeens (small sticks) to light the fire. I always thought it was a word my mother made up.
Along with "bostook"

Potential-Monke · 19-06-2021 10:25pm

Ye. An amazing word that has no other, but is no longer used and "you" is used instead, but that makes no sense because you is singular but it can also be used to refer to 2 or more people as a group. Whereas ye is just perfect for it.

I had a fight with a team leader in a previous job of using ye instead of you. Because mainly they were a 'Merican company the yanks had mentioned it apparantly, as they don't think it's proper English. I refused to stop using it. There is no alternative to ye that's just as short and precise!

odyssey06 · 19-06-2021 10:27pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Ye. An amazing word that has no other, but is no longer used and "you" is used instead, but that makes no sense because you is singular but it can also be used to refer to 2 or more people as a group. Whereas ye is just perfect for it.
I had a fight with a team leader in a previous job of using ye instead of you. Because mainly they were a 'Merican company the yanks had mentioned it apparantly, as they don't think it's proper English. I refused to stop using it. There is no alternative to ye that's just as short and precise!

I use ye also, it is a gap in the language.
'You all' perhaps?

19-06-2021 10:32pm

Youse

whisky_galore · 19-06-2021 10:33pm

Company keeping.

Potential-Monke · 19-06-2021 10:40pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

I use ye also, it is a gap in the language.
'You all' perhaps?

Oh the yanks love that, ya'll. I refuse to use it when ye is there. Ya'll just sounds so... trailer trash?

MeepMeep2021 wrote: »

Youse

And no. Never. Rape of the english language there!

odyssey06 · 19-06-2021 10:51pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Oh the yanks love that, ya'll. I refuse to use it when ye is there. Ya'll just sounds so... trailer trash?

No I think it's a general southern thing, not necessarily trailer trash... think I remember hearing it a lot in Friday Night Lights & Nashville from Connie Britton's characters.
Probably you have to have the accent...

Words no longer used.....

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