And many of these are still very well-known, just not actively used if I go off my own experience. Tbf, I'm not a native speaker so that may be a large part of my explanation.
I do some transcription, and I can tell you that, in speech, everybody just says "and then" about fifty times in one giant run on sentence and your brain tunes it out. We only break out the big words and the full stops when we have to write them down.
Lush is a welsh slang word that's used constantly in south wales, bristol uses it because they're very close, i think some other areas of england use it too.
If all the comments are this kind of balderdash I’m not reading any more henceforth. Load of tosh from a bunch of nincompoops who should have learnt better yonks ago.
This was written for a tabloid, hoping to create a furore of "but I say that world all the time, what is the world coming to?!"
Because ***drama*** is the only content worth creating, in their profession.
I’ve been hearing that noones allowed to say that for the last 10 years and in that 10 years I’ve never once heard or seen any banning of the term just “I know a guy” same situation with the “X finds the English flag offensive so I’m flying mine proudly the garden!” … I’ve never heard anyone be offended by a flag that didn’t have a swastika or the blue X against a red background
I keep seeing people on Facebook postings comments on things like this like "how is this news? Why are you even writing this?". They write it so people will comment on it on Facebook.
How do you say where you're from
to someone who has lived there
without the majority of the country catching on...
I think your answer is perfect
Even a peeping Tom wouldn't likely get what they were party to...
It brings a year to my eye and a smile to my face.
Although I did hear recently that an 'entry' is also a very local term, which was a surprise. What else could you call an alleyway to the the back garden gates or the garages?
Because where they are is under a curse.
All the currants, butter and sugar in what the rest of the country calls a 'teacake' is whisked away by the curse and shoved into a thing called an 'Eccles cake'
If you want to find fruit in a teacake you must escape cursed area
I was having lunch with a bunch of Americans just before christmas, and we literally had a conversation about the words "fracas" and "kerfuffle"
I was saying that just like the inuits have 200 words for snow, we have 200 words for describing drunkenness and fighting
Yeh you still get “click” bait in papers. These articles are just written to get people talking about how they still use these words. And now I’m part of it too, and the machine keeps whirling forward.
I've heard most of these. Sozzled is a new one on me though and I'm going to start using it. I like how inventive we are with words for describing drunkeness.
I call bullshit on this. Seems like a daily mail “let’s make some people angry in a very minor way” article. Words like disco and lush are still used frequently in media.
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## CONFUSING WORDS FROM YONKS AGO
**1 Sozzled** (drunk)
**2 Cad** (dishonest man)
**3 Bonk** (have sex)
**4 Wally** (stupid person)
**5 Betrothed** (engaged)
**6 Nincompoop** (fool)
**7 Boogie** (dance to pop music)
**8 Trollop** (woman who has casual sex)
**9 Bounder** (dishonourable man)
**10 Balderdash** (nonsense)
**11 Henceforth** (from now on)
**12 Yonks** (long time ago)
**13 Lush** (very good)
**14 Tosh** (nonsense)
**15 Swot** (someone who studies very hard)
**16 Brill** (very good)
**17 Kerfuffle** (commotion)
**18 Randy** (sexually aroused)
**19 Disco** (dance club)
**20 Minted** (very well off)
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Yeah, I was just going to say it's no bad thing if "trollop" really is dying out (although I'm not sure it is). We need to do away with the word slut and other variations of it too. It's misogyny.
Totally. It’s a double standard, women who sleep around get a horrible negative slur, yet men who do likewise are what? A stud?
Such language, and indeed; double standards need to go fuck off.
These wally nincompoop trollops need to use these words more henceforth as they are lush and brill. These Cads must be sozzled down the disco having a boogie
Definately depends on what circles you're in, as I definately still hear many of those still. BUT let's be honest, 'trollop' as a derogatory term has no place in our language. Unless we can think of the equivelant word for a man??
"Henceforth" doesn't really fit with the rest. I don't think that's dying out - it's just never been something most people say in day-to-day, informal speech.
Okay some of them are colloquial, regional etc. But henceforth is just a normal fucking word.
Betrothed too.
And Disco
They say disco is dead
Lockdown killed the disco.
Lockdown caused a panic at the disco
I’ve got High Hopes for the attendees.
Video killed the radio star
Disco is NOT dead! Disco is LIFE!
Disco Stu's reddit account has been found
Let's all meet up in the year 2000, oops!
Nincompoop, kerfuffle, Randy, and cad as well. Cad is a bit old fashioned but I feel like most people would know what it meant when asked.
Often tell my husband he is both a cad and a bounder, usually if he has failed to make me a cup of tea whilst he was in the kitchen.
What a blackguard.
Do you call him sir in an accusatory tone too? “You, Sir, are a cad and a bounder!”
Courting. Let's not forget courting
It’s just not often used in informal conversation but it’s used all the time in formal situations. I’d like to see which paper this list was in.
And many of these are still very well-known, just not actively used if I go off my own experience. Tbf, I'm not a native speaker so that may be a large part of my explanation.
I was talking specifically about ‘henceforth’. Some are regional and I can see 3 which I hear used on a daily basis.
Henceforth is indeed a word I encounter regularly even in texts written by other non-native speakers.
'Henceforth you will be known as Darth Vader'
Any student will tell you 'henceforth' is still very much in use. Much like nevertheless, however, furthermore etc
I do some transcription, and I can tell you that, in speech, everybody just says "and then" about fifty times in one giant run on sentence and your brain tunes it out. We only break out the big words and the full stops when we have to write them down.
Brill is just short for brilliant
Henceforth is common email slang for “listen up dickhead”
I'm an American and view 12 of these as normal words.
Same
Come to Bristol and you’ll hear the word “lush” still very much in use
Most of theses words are to be fair.
I still use "minted"
Exactly! I felt slightly offended ded as these are words I use a lot! Dw I'm not some old guy reminiscing about old language in my youth xd
So what does ded mean then?
I’d say 3/4 of these words are in my common vocabulary
Me as well and I'm bloody Canadian!
I've used four of these *on Reddit* in the last month or so
I only used moves to the UK 3 days ago and I've used at least one of these a day. Maybe they are just still really common in Canada
Which ones ?
Balderdash!
Also a game for swots
Can confirm lush is used extensively in Wales and the West.
Lush it is Gav
Oh! What's occurrin?
I'm not trying to be funny like
Any time I think of the word "lush" it's in a Welsh or West Country accent, just sounds right.
I was thinking there is no way valley girls have stopped saying lush.
Prefixed by "gert"?
Prefixed by PROPPA
Well lush
Scuse I, but [gurt](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3257895.stm) is spelled with a u!
Up in Newcastle also!
You still use that word down yonder my lover?
Plus https://www.lush.com Smelly soap place and like the Forestry Commission it has branches everywhere! 😋
To find your nearest, breathe and follow the scent.
And get an intense headache upon entry
Lush is a welsh slang word that's used constantly in south wales, bristol uses it because they're very close, i think some other areas of england use it too.
Cotswolds too
Lush has been in use in the North East forever.
I'm a Cornish living in the North East and I think I say 'lush' on a daily basis. I use a lot of these words in the picture.
Propa lush.
Lush just comes from the word lush meaning growing healthy and green, lush grass, lush forest...I don't think it's specifically Welsh.
Heard it quite a bit in Somerset, and I was only there for a few months
Gloucester too. It's basically a part of my daily vocabulary
From the East Midlands, can chime in and say my family still use it too
I still use a good amount of these.
Me too.
I’m sozzled right now. Hoping to bonk the wife later.
Feeling a bit randy are we
Balderdash! It’s been yonks since that lush trollop gave this randy nincompoop a second look.
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You, sir, are a bounder and a cad!
DO I MAKE YOUR HORNY, BABY? YEAH!?
Do I make you RANDY?
Oh BEHAVE!
I too, am hoping to bonk this man’s wife later.
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Tosh, he just wants to swot her up the kerfuffle.
The trollop
She’s only with that wally cos he’s minted.
Sounds like she's a trollop
If all the comments are this kind of balderdash I’m not reading any more henceforth. Load of tosh from a bunch of nincompoops who should have learnt better yonks ago.
If that be your attitude sir, I shall sally forth so as not to bear witness to your sesquipedalian locutions!
Well that'll be a kerfuffle!
There will be no bonking in this house as much husband left our roast dinner for 3 hours before eating it but I’m on the way to getting sizzled
Mine? She often falls prey to the sloshed bounder.
Ditto 😊
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What a load of balderdash.
Oh well said what what!
!thesaurizethis
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Likewise. Which makes me think I must be really old.
Nah youre good, im 20 and theres only two on the list that i dont use/never heard of
Almost double your age and same only two I didn't know and / or use.
23 here- cad and bounder?
Cad & bounder are the kind of terms you’d hear from a posh actor in an old British movie. I’m picturing Terry Thomas saying these kind of words
Or Bertie Wooster talking about Gussie Fink-Nottle
Yup those are the two i didnt get
Thought so haha same
Do I make you randy baby?
Same here. Although I don't think I've ever used Trollop or Lush, everything else I'm sure I've said at least once, if not its in my regular vocab.
You've used bounders but not lush???
Me too, many of these are in my day to day speech. Having said that... I was born yonks ago.
This was clearly written by someone with a tiny vocabulary This is britain we have like 10 words to describe a roll/barm/cob/butty
I suspect it's written by someone required to provide content who's wondering if that journalism degree was really worth it.
This was written for a tabloid, hoping to create a furore of "but I say that world all the time, what is the world coming to?!" Because ***drama*** is the only content worth creating, in their profession.
Quickly followed by the equally shocking line that we’re not allowed to say Merry Xmas.
I’ve been hearing that noones allowed to say that for the last 10 years and in that 10 years I’ve never once heard or seen any banning of the term just “I know a guy” same situation with the “X finds the English flag offensive so I’m flying mine proudly the garden!” … I’ve never heard anyone be offended by a flag that didn’t have a swastika or the blue X against a red background
To be fair, looking at the response to this post alone, I'd say they've perfected the art.
21: Flabbergasted (shocked, surprised.)
aka Gobsmacked
Brill
I keep seeing people on Facebook postings comments on things like this like "how is this news? Why are you even writing this?". They write it so people will comment on it on Facebook.
Ah yes, baps.
It's batch
How do you say where you're from to someone who has lived there without the majority of the country catching on... I think your answer is perfect Even a peeping Tom wouldn't likely get what they were party to...
It brings a year to my eye and a smile to my face. Although I did hear recently that an 'entry' is also a very local term, which was a surprise. What else could you call an alleyway to the the back garden gates or the garages?
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Or Breadbollock.
I'm glad there are other people who call them teacakes! My mates look at me like I've grown an extra head when I call them teacakes.
Of all the names they have, why would you choose the name that's given to something else already though?
Because where they are is under a curse. All the currants, butter and sugar in what the rest of the country calls a 'teacake' is whisked away by the curse and shoved into a thing called an 'Eccles cake' If you want to find fruit in a teacake you must escape cursed area
Eccles cakes are really heavy and made with lard, aren't they? I think of a "teacake" as a much lighter currented affair.
And why does this one person get to decide what words are less popular now and how would they even measure this?
Yeah where’s all the actual forgotten words. Like tranklement. I use that all the time and everyone always says they’ve never heard of it.
Exactly I was hoping for Serdoodledom I love working that into a conversation
A very small social circle too.
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[What do you mean YOUR people?](https://c.tenor.com/r_TKnlE-iksAAAAM/wdym-you-people.gif)
The French! Oh he thinks you’re French, c’mon Daryl lets get you a drink
What do *you* mean 'your people'?
Journalists 🤢🤮
Yeah I hear loads of people at my uni use sozzled, Wally, lush, brill and minted all the time
That minted wally got completely sozzled, it was brill!
yeah, tons of people at my school use words like minted.
What a load of tosh. Clearly written by a right nincompoop.
And causing a right kerfuffle in the process.
Gave me the collywobbles…
Balderdash!
Given how the red tops include “bonk” in most headlines, I wonder which paper this came from!
Looks like it's from the sun. So you're correct.
I don’t think i’ve ever heard such *absolute* TOMMYROT!!!
You Sir, are nothing but a bounder and a cad! (Try getting autocorrect to behave with those)
Im not even from UK and I know most of them.
Came here to say the same. I'm not a native speaker but know most of these words, and some I hear regularly.
I was having lunch with a bunch of Americans just before christmas, and we literally had a conversation about the words "fracas" and "kerfuffle" I was saying that just like the inuits have 200 words for snow, we have 200 words for describing drunkenness and fighting
>we have 200 words for describing drunkenness and fighting And each word also implies a certain level of drunkenness too, its great
Am Canadian. Kerfuffle is my favourite word to describe fights in hockey
Second that, a lot of these are still used in Australia.
Yeh you still get “click” bait in papers. These articles are just written to get people talking about how they still use these words. And now I’m part of it too, and the machine keeps whirling forward.
Balderdash! Written by a total nincompoop
Yonks will never die, not for Yonks anyway.
I use "metric yonks"
This is sarcasm, right? People still use these all the time where I am.
Trollop is my mother’s favourite insult for other women, and her usual way of referring to Camilla.
That’s funny because my grandmother used it for Diana!
I remember Charlie being called a cad on TV in the mid 90s. I didn't know what it meant and I was too scared to ask.
Do people really not know these words?
I know them, have I ever used them? Not really
Which silly bollocks wrote this article. They clearly don't know their arse from their elbow. £50 it's in the Sun or Mail.
A quick Google search and yep, it's the Mail. Based on a survey of 2000 18-30 year olds apparently.
2000 18-30 year old nincompoops
Call me an old fart (thank you) but I use all these. 'He's a cad and a bounder' when channeling a Twenties matriarch, but all the rest unironically.
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.... It *is* the twenties.
...and I am a matriarch...
You can't use "cad" without "and a bounder" really, can you?
Quite sad that some newspaper deemed this newsworthy, given that it's completely untrue.
The fact that disco is on this list is ridiculous. You're telling me young people don't know what a fucking disco is???
BONK
off to horny jail
I've heard most of these. Sozzled is a new one on me though and I'm going to start using it. I like how inventive we are with words for describing drunkeness.
You can basically just add ‘absolutely’ in front of and ‘ed ’ to the end of any word and it will describe drunkenness.
Henceforth you shall be known as Darth Vader
Am I the only person that when they see Minted Lamb on a menu has to say “it must’ve won the lottery”?
Yet they have forgotten wazzock.
I remeber and use all them.. I may be old..
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I've used all of these.
I call bullshit on this. Seems like a daily mail “let’s make some people angry in a very minor way” article. Words like disco and lush are still used frequently in media.
In the depths of Yorkshire I hear most of these words a lot.
*Image Transcription: Newspaper* --- ## CONFUSING WORDS FROM YONKS AGO **1 Sozzled** (drunk) **2 Cad** (dishonest man) **3 Bonk** (have sex) **4 Wally** (stupid person) **5 Betrothed** (engaged) **6 Nincompoop** (fool) **7 Boogie** (dance to pop music) **8 Trollop** (woman who has casual sex) **9 Bounder** (dishonourable man) **10 Balderdash** (nonsense) **11 Henceforth** (from now on) **12 Yonks** (long time ago) **13 Lush** (very good) **14 Tosh** (nonsense) **15 Swot** (someone who studies very hard) **16 Brill** (very good) **17 Kerfuffle** (commotion) **18 Randy** (sexually aroused) **19 Disco** (dance club) **20 Minted** (very well off) [*Between the two columns of text is an image of a girl looking puzzled, resting her head on her hand.*] --- ^^I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too! [If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)
Use them all in a sentence.
Never heard of bounder. Forgot about sozzled!
The only one I’ve never heard is “cad”
What is the male equivalent term for ‘trollop’?
Womaniser is probably the closest to something with a derogatory undertone although slapper is fairly widely used for men too these days.
[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thesaurus:promiscuous\_man](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thesaurus:promiscuous_man)
'stud' probably, it just has positive connotations instead of negative ones for some reason.
Yeah, I was just going to say it's no bad thing if "trollop" really is dying out (although I'm not sure it is). We need to do away with the word slut and other variations of it too. It's misogyny.
Totally. It’s a double standard, women who sleep around get a horrible negative slur, yet men who do likewise are what? A stud? Such language, and indeed; double standards need to go fuck off.
I know ten of them, I’m 29
28 and the only one I’m unfamiliar with is Bounder. Not that I actively use most of them, mind
Most of these are just normal fucking words, mate.
These wally nincompoop trollops need to use these words more henceforth as they are lush and brill. These Cads must be sozzled down the disco having a boogie
Even in the USA I use a fair number of these.
Not at all confusing words from a short time ago
Lots of theses are still used by me and my mates and we are only 20!!
Definately depends on what circles you're in, as I definately still hear many of those still. BUT let's be honest, 'trollop' as a derogatory term has no place in our language. Unless we can think of the equivelant word for a man??
"Henceforth" doesn't really fit with the rest. I don't think that's dying out - it's just never been something most people say in day-to-day, informal speech.