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"I had cause to think of the word again today when reading Anu's AWADmail Issue 25 in which Bradley Perkins was quoted as writing: 'The reason I noticed it is that my mother has a peculiar habit, which she passed on to me, of alphabetizing the letters of words that she reads, as just a "mental fidget" ("aelmnt defgit").'
I couldn't work out whether the reference in the one sentence to his mother and something I would pronounce as "ailment deaf git" was deliberate or not."
Am i just easily amused, or are you guys witty as heck?? Either way, thanks for the giggles.
bridget=)
Ipsa scientia potestas est ~Bacon
git Noun. An idiot or contemptible person. Although more commonly used, it is a variation of 'get'. Derog (UK Slang)
get Noun. An idiot, a despicable person. Cf. 'git'.
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
Under the expletives thread, we discussed that the sound of the word has more to do with its success as an expletive than the meaning of the word. "Git" is a good example of a word which sounds aggressive, just because of the combination of letters.
Although it is derogatory, the word has been reclaimed and sanitised to a certain extent, particularly in the context of "old git". I have heard people saying "I'm becoming an old git" or "We're becoming old gits".
I suspect that the generation that thought of their elders as old gits are now realising that they are now becoming their parents!
now becoming their parents!
I reckon it was almost completely re-invented for new generations by The Old Gits by Harry Enfield. Now there is one contemporary comedian with a true ear for speech patterns - unerring!
Harry Enfield. Now there is one contemporary comedian with a true ear for speech patterns - unerring!
Could you give us a few examples? It's a new name to me. Is he solely a UK comedian?
wow
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