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#11848 12/05/00 07:48 AM
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Just out of interest, does anyone else remember where the term "SWMBO" came from? I'd expect the Poms to dive in here ...



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I checked this morning and I still have a couple of protuberances by way of proof (and damn fine ones may I add ).

Mummy warned me about this sort of thing on the Internet. She said I'd get corrupted and evil women would lure me to meet them in bars and things (they never have, I'm still ruddy waiting!). So are you an incubus or a succubus? Or, from your profile, a databus?


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Just out of interest, does anyone else remember where the term "SWMBO" came from?

First reference I can remember: H Rider Haggard's She. More familiarly latterly through the irrepressible, inimitable Rumpole of the Bailey.


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>Partner
No it is definitely used here to mean "significant other" ..


Along with better half and other half. Any others?

I suppose "partner" has come into its own in that many more people live together and have kids without getting married these days. It's the official term for such a relationship, significant in that the relationship is officially recognised and can have an impact on benefits/taxes etc (usually a negative one).




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I have also noticed a resurgence in the once-twee-sounding "boyfriend" and "girlfriend". What goes around comes around, eh?


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the U.S. census bureau came up with the irreproachable 'posslq' (pronounced pahs-'l-kyoo), which of course is an acronym. [person (of the) opposite sex sharing living quarters]


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For you love me and I love you,
come and be my posslq.

Aenigma likes possum instead of posslq.



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| There's nothing that I wouldn't do,
| If you would be my Posslq,
| You'd live for me and I for you
| If you would be my Posslq.
| .
| .
| .
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| We'd live forever, you and me,
| In blessed posslq-ity!

-Charles Osgood



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A Danish colleague (no, he wasn't a pastry, he was a statistician), once told me that in Denmark, the term "samlaversk" and "samlaverske" (male and female respectively) are used to cover the issue of "significant others" in Danish. Don't kill me over the Danish spellings, this was ten years ago!



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Ah yes; I've lived with several Danish ladies. samlaversk than others.



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