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Make it a good one !

I enjoy any day I happen to bump headlong into a word I have never heard before & being in total loss of its meaning, I reach for my fairly reliable dictionary.

'Snafu' was today's example. Yesterday's was 'Pyknic'.

One I knew one I didn't Dermot...always good to keep up with new facts/words/whatever.

Are you aware of the US meaning of "to hump"?
Situation normal all fked up.
Catch 22 Joseph Heller - one of the few novels which successfully explains the last 100 years essential reading Dermot.

Yes Rollo and yet it's not been RR even though that's not the meaning for the thread.

Many words have different meanings in different areas.
The way a person decides to 'use' that word is personal choice.
Caroline also didn't use the expression 'to hump', which is also used to mean the same thing in England!!

'Hump' has more than one meaning in English, strangely, Americans are totally baffled by the English phrase 'Getting the hump', ie to take offence/get annoyed or upset.

Surely we're not expected to moderate the words we use innocently, just because someone decides to put the word 'to' in front of it, giving that combination of letters a different meaning?
Quite a few English words can be made smutty by adding 'to' in front, for example, a type of carpet, a threaded implement for joining two pieces of wood.
If we have to be careful what we say because of the few, we may as well all speak in infuriating 'text' speak, and take all interest out of language.

'Britain & America - divided by a common language'.

(Forget who said/wrote this quip.)

George Bernard Shaw, or Oscar Wilde, or even both, I believe :-D

Sir John Cheke (16 June 1514 – 13 September 1557) was an English classical scholar who wrote:

‘I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt‘.

Good grief.

I blame it all on Betty Boop.
Maybe Caroline should post a nursery rhyme thrn wait.
Anybody seen Uxb squad? :-S

Oh! So somebody HAS got the hump then!!

Miserable Bactrian that they are :-P

Top Definition


hump day

The middle of a work week (Wednesday); used in the context of climbing a proverbial hill to get through a tough week.

After hump day, the weekend gets closer.

Brilliant definition, Margaret! :-D

..how come your great grandmother looks elegant, my gg granny (similar era) looks like someone's removed her beer glass to take the photo!!




(it's actually gg grandad's hand - probably propping her up!)

That's funny, Maggie!
Actually gt. gran Dorothy was an illegitimate child. My dear departed mother would have been horrified to know that her grandmother was illegitimate, heaven forbid!
It's left a big hole in my tree 'cause I will never know who her father was.

This sign always amuses me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2JSDPscigc

It pays to increase ones vocabulary.

Readers Digest

If you are a newly arrived pom in Australia and a keen gardener, do NOT ask for rooting powder but make sure you ask for hormone rooting powder.

If you ask for the former you are likely to be given ground up Viagra

Sorry folks I was away from the computer for a while and in my absence, I see someone RR this too.....bet Genes just delete it too....sad someone is so upset by Hump day

Kense! :-D :-D

Allan :-S