GAH! I am trying to post about it making the news that F-bomb and other words are now in the dictionary/ies. Maybe not putting a quote or a link will help...
Problem is still on this link, however.
Here is what Jackie posted:-
[crossthreading to the current Hogwash thread e] I'm surprised no one posted about this. I was very busy for quite a while after my trip; sorry to be away from this place so long, and thanks, Candy, for giving me the nudge I needed. Anyway--this was in the news, and I thought surely somebody here would have posted it, but a Search revealed 0 results. A partial quote, then the link:
F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary
By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press – Aug 13, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — It's about freakin' time.
The term "F-bomb" surfaced in newspapers more than 20 years ago but will land Tuesday for the first time in the mainstream Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, along with sexting, flexitarian, obesogenic, energy drink and life coach.
In all, the company picks about 100 additions for the 114-year-old dictionary's annual update, gathering evidence of usage over several years in everything from media to the labels of beer bottles and boxes of frozen food. words accepted into the dictionary
So - what IS an F-Bomb, please?
Shame on you Rhuby....are you trying to get Jackie to swear in public forum?
Certainly not!
But it is an expression which is new to me, and I like to think the best of everyone and everything -
Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense and all that - and wordsbeginning with "F" fill several pages of my dictinary.
So - what IS an F-Bomb, please?
It's a euphemism for the word fuck.
Many thanks - "F-Bomb" is not a phrase in use this side of the pond.
"The Herring Pond" - a humourous reference to (some of) the inhabitants of the Altlantic Ocean
How did you manage to retrieve my original post?!? I tried hitting Quote AND Edit, but got nada. Anyway, if you scroll down in what Rhuby so miraculously found, you can see the link to other words that have made it into dictionaries this year.
Hitting "Quote" worked for me. There is definitely something rum going on!
> side of the pond
I'd have to disagree there, Rhuby - my kids (in their 20s) use the phrase "F-bomb" and more specifically "C-bomb" as a natural part of their lexicon. I suspect this is more a generational thing, given how open the yunguns are to Merkin influence nowadays.
OK, I bow to your more contemporaneous knowledge - my own kids are in their mid-forties, now, and the youngest of my students, these days, is in her late fifties! It's not far short of twenty years since I taught in the prison amongst relatively young - and very street-wise - people. So I'm well uncool about de street buzz, ennit?
But you stay up late just like the young kids!
But I also get up early (ish) - unlike the young kids.
ho hum, just checked with my daughter and she corrected me firmly:
"No Dad, I never use that phrase, it's only Jim who does, and he has picked it up from American TV."
So there we have it, language change on the cusp - the older child doesn't use it, the younger one and all his mates do.
Not one I've heard either, Mav.