(Ye) Old British / English words we hardly use

[smoggs03]

Sprocket seems to be rapidly getting replaced by cog

 

[Glover_elbow]

curmudgeonly

 

[FishofContemplation]

batsMAN!

With apols for taking us in a somewhat nerdy direction the one thing the sheer age of cricket gives you is a track of the language over time.

That’s not a traditional English form it’s a late Victorian neologism. You won’t find it (or any gendered agent noun) in the Laws of Cricket for the first 150 years or so.

 

[Papa Laz]

plethora

 

[sweet_left_foot]

Lots of excellent entries here

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1788)

 

[Fattyfoggon]

akimbo as in legs

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

curmudgeonly

Good one to describe board members.

 

[futureboy]

akimbo as in legs

Just drive through them, Phil - they can't stop theatre!

 

[Borobuddah]

Footpad
Ruffian

 

[smoggs03]

plethora

had a discussion over this word. I pronounce it ple-thora whilst mrs Smoggs03 says plefferer

 

[Peppery_John]

Lots of excellent entries here

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1788)

 

[271266]

Trollop.

 

[Markburke]

Boring fact coming up..
Did you know that where you see things like “Ye Olde Shoppe” the “Ye” was always just “The”? In old and middle English the symbols for the “Th” sound was a symbol we don’t have today, and when the printing press was invented (imported) the closest thing to it was a capital Y, so that’s what got used. It was never pronounced as a “y” sound, it was always “th” like it is now.

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

Boring fact coming up..
Did you know that where you see things like “Ye Olde Shoppe” the “Ye” was always just “The”? In old and middle English the symbols for the “Th” sound was a symbol we don’t have today, and when the printing press was invented (imported) the closest thing to it was a capital Y, so that’s what got used. It was never pronounced as a “y” sound, it was always “th” like it is now.

I was just writing the same thing and was half way through writing a post as you posted, it comes from the Nordic letter Thorn(the one that looks like a letter P with a line on top) I only recently learned about that watching history and facts videos on YouTube.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Fisting now has quite a different usage. Always raised a few eyebrows when I told people Gareth Southgate would fist all four stands after a Boro victory.

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

With apols for taking us in a somewhat nerdy direction the one thing the sheer age of cricket gives you is a track of the language over time.

That’s not a traditional English form it’s a late Victorian neologism. You won’t find it (or any gendered agent noun) in the Laws of Cricket for the first 150 years or so.

Yes, but some of us fatties get excited when we hear batter. I'm thinking pancakes or Yorkshire pudding?

 

[gizasqueezemister]

Often here the South Asian lads at work using the word 'thrice'

 

[Hap]

Leviathan that was a word.
also fax, telex, and cagoule

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

Letters and especially French ones seem to have gone out of vogue.

 

[etmfc]

Courtship/ courting
Skeddadle
Privy - outside toilet