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but what on earth are you still only practising for, Bingley?! :) Don't you know, Honey? He's the doctor of love! 
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Still not quite perfect. Bingley
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Mav (or other Brit): Is queer still used in Britspeak to mean 'odd', 'peculiar', or 'eccentric'?
I shall never forget the time my mother invited a friend of hers and her husband to dinner with us. The friend was a British war bride from Nottingham and still (1957) spoke British English. In the course of dinner, she declined several of the items on the table and explained, "I know I'm awfully queer, but there are only a few things I eat." My younger brothers and sisters (ages 12, 10, 8 and 4) nearly choked to death trying to stifle their laughing.
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No, Bob, I don't think it is (at least in any of the quite varied groups I've mixed with) - I believe it got driven away from this connotation quite a few years back by exactly those same gales of laughter!
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Another source of great amusement, when I was growing up, were those British-speaking persons who were occasionally asked to say grace in our home and asked the Lord to grant us "gay and grateful hearts." My sainted mother would shoot me a look which translated "If you laugh, I will skin you, slowly, with a dull knife."
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