Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[cloughie]

Oh, yes - there weren't any genuinely posh people in my birth town: just a considerable number of people who said "threpney" and "pardon?" and who were amused by the others who said "thrupney" and "what?".

Sounds mid-Pennines to me!

[Bryn]

Oh, yes - there weren't any genuinely posh people in my birth town: just a considerable number of people who said "threpney" and "pardon?" and who were amused by the others who said "thrupney" and "what?".

Ah, you rich folk. We never got past three ha'pence in our neck of the woods, and bird's eye maple were way beyond our meanns.

[cloughie]

Ah, you rich folk. We never got past three ha'pence in our neck of the woods, and bird's eye maple were way beyond our meanns.

...and you tell ‘em today and do they believe you?

[Oakapple]

I wouldn't really object to "one pence" unless feeling exceptionally pedantic that day - any more than "six foot", which we have got used to saying.

I bet the Americans never talk about one cents. And a six-foot man and a nine-stone woman sound quite correct, not an error that has just gained acceptance through usage. We would never talk about a six-feet man, unless he had to wear three pairs of shoes all the time perhaps.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sounds mid-Pennines to me!

[cloughie]

I bet the Americans never talk about one cents. And a six-foot man and a nine-stone woman sound quite correct, not an error that has just gained acceptance through usage. We would never talk about a six-feet man, unless he had to wear three pairs of shoes all the time perhaps.

Or six feet under!

[Pulcinella]

I think that thruppence was west of the Pennines where threppence was to the east!

More like thrippunce where I grew up: (posh?) Liverpool.

[vinteuil]

(posh?) Liverpool.

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[ ... well, the Blundells, perhaps.]







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[Pulcinella]

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[ ... well, the Blundells, perhaps.]

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Jest not! Crosby was/is pretty close to Blundellsands.

[Pulcinella]

I bet the Americans never talk about one cents. And a six-foot man and a nine-stone woman sound quite correct, not an error that has just gained acceptance through usage. We would never talk about a six-feet man, unless he had to wear three pairs of shoes all the time perhaps.

Wouldn't he be a six-footed man?

[vinteuil]

Jest not! Crosby was/is pretty close to Blundellsands.

[ ... I once knew a Whitlock-Blundell, who was actually quite nice - as well as being quite posh ]

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[cloughie]

Wouldn't he be a six-footed man?

A godsend to cobblers!...and maybe liked sole music!

[Pulcinella]

[ ... I once knew a Whitlock-Blundell, who was actually quite nice - as well as being quite posh ]

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An interesting Catholic family, I think.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Crosby

[Pulcinella]

A godsend to cobblers!...and maybe liked sole music!

So long as it was of the toe-tapping variety!

[Boilk]

Interesting that predecimally "pence" would usually come out as an unstressed "pəns" whereas under the decimal system it mostly seems to get the full vowel sound - "six pence" as against "sɪkspəns". The people who say "one pence" nowadays wouldn't say "onepəns"".

I'm just old enough to remember that after decimalisation people would say "five new pence" and "ten new pence", even though under the old system it would have been "sixpence" and "a shilling", so the 'new' was somewhat superfluous in these cases. I guess it was because the word "new" was embossed on the decimal coins, a practice which I think continued well into the 1980s.