These lists seem to be a favorite for you all. Sometimes we find it more challenging to create them! Here’s us giving it a go for a third time. See what I did there bringing it full circle, if not catch up on #10 😉
- Fringe is bangs. Bangs is fringe. Live on the fringe. For a hot second a few months ago, I contemplated what life would be like with bangs. I wanted to see some pictures of styles naturally. A quick google search referred to everything as fringe. To drive this point home further, I talked to a student in Lil Fox’s class who just got bangs and she looked at me as if I’d grown two horns on top of my head. She then politely got excited to tell me what she did get was a fringe. Personally, I don’t think any living being can rock fringe better than the Highland Cow, also a popular UK icon!
2. Wonky is a term used to describe anything that is unflattering in appearance (think of imperfect produce, it’s called wonky here), a bit off kilter, or not reliable. This can refer to a workflow, or really anything. Exhibit A (ctrl + f for wonky), Exhibit B.
3. Rutabaga is called a swede. Don’t ask. But since you did. Americans I think are in the minority in calling it a rutabaga. Swede comes from the term Swedish turnip. Rutabaga comes from the Swedish word rotabagga or root bag.
4 . The British usually call pudding dessert. This throws me off every time I hear it as I think of pudding as a gooey gelatinous mass that you eat off a spoon. Not here in England. If you don’t believe me check it out for yourself! Oh, but don’t forget there is also Yorkshire pudding which is not dessert, but rather a bread pudding accompanied by meat and vegetables. It gets easier with time to learn the nuances.
The following are phrases I don’t need to hear for the rest of my life and are particularly popular for kids right now. Maybe they’re popular in the states too. I don’t know since I’m not living there right now – you tell me!
5. “It’s fine you can just tell me off.” “I’m going to get told off.” “Why’d she tell me off, etc.” Basically, it’s angrily talking at someone because you did something wrong. I dislike it and I think it is particularly misused by kids. Often times if I’m kindly course correcting a behavior/choice of words my children my still accuse me of telling someone them off. This then makes we want to actually tell someone off about how to use the phrase tell off.
6. What the heck/hell. I hear this nonstop everywhere. At the playground, at school, etc. One reads something in a magazine…what the h…..one hears a friend say something funny….what the h. One says whats for dinner and based on the answer…what the h. The opportunities are infinite probably as infinite as the F word. One might have nothing else to do and so walks around saying, “what the h”…At one point we had a friend over who said what the hell! I said, “Monsieur (name changed for privacy), language!” He said, “Sorry. I forgot I wasn’t at home!” LOL. Our kids have started saying it too. It takes the patience of water chipping away at rock to make sand to guide them back into more diverse exclamations.
