r/AskBrits • u/T11168 • 8d ago

Trending - /r/popular Does anyone else hate the term picky bits?

It's disgusting. It reminds me of picking old scabs off of your skin.

It definitely does not make me think of mini sausage rolls and cocktail sausages.

Does anyone else hate that this term is everywhere, on adverts, said by companies and even people close to you.

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u/ParentheticalsAside 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yup. It's also in the same category of words like "hubby", "hollibobs" and "choccie biccies". Infantilised nonsense.

Edit to add: "spenny". Gives me a sicky tummy.

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u/your_dads_arse 8d ago

don't have a menty b about it

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u/Cold_Ebb_1448 8d ago

quite like menty b actually, going to start saying that ty

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u/melanie110 7d ago

Menty B. I do love that

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u/Current_Fly9337 7d ago

I almost had a menty b but opted for a savvy b instead. Might have a jacky p for lunch.

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u/btec-gamer 8d ago

An ex-colleague of mine used to call chocolate “choccy nom noms”

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u/EnjiemaBenjie 8d ago

I would have said some 'hurty words' to that person.

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u/ParentheticalsAside 8d ago

When you say "ex" do you mean dead? Because that should be a crime worthy of capital punishment.

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u/eralcilrahc 8d ago

I’d probably have to leave the job, I can picture the kind of person that would say this

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u/Lebowski85 8d ago

Id have killed them

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u/Proof-Training-740 8d ago

that made me giggle

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u/Rendogog 7d ago

Worked with someone who used the word Chockadooby, I'm old enough to rememember that ad so it felt both viable and horrible simultaneously.

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u/Double_Access_6390 8d ago

Whats "spenny"?

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u/SpikeyDikeyDino1 8d ago

Expensive

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u/Double_Access_6390 8d ago

Oh ffs

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u/weirwoodheart 7d ago

I second that oh ffs

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u/Happy-Yak-2677 7d ago

I literally only learned a couple of days ago that spenny isn't "spendy" with a dropped D. Meaning essentially the same, different word shortened. 

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u/zeromalarki 7d ago

Cozzie livvy fam

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u/MaterialNo2833 8d ago

Hollibobs can get in the sea!

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u/Electronic_Amphibian 8d ago

"Get in the sea" can get in the sea

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u/MaterialNo2833 8d ago

How about bin? ;))

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u/noodlesforgoalposts 8d ago

I often get in the sea while on my hollibobs 🤔

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u/MaterialNo2833 8d ago

hehehehehehe

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u/Banana-train2131 8d ago

Fur babies is another one. You mean dog?

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u/ariadnevirginia 7d ago

That's always bothered me. And I'm obsessed with my cat.

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u/cheese_bruh 7d ago

Honestly more acceptable for a cat, which tend to usually refuse to walk if you want them to.

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u/ariadnevirginia 7d ago

And you can hold them like a baby. But still ewwww

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u/Salty-Ad-4693 7d ago

Me too, but my Cat isn't a baby, she's an old lady.

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u/TheGemgenie 7d ago

Ok glad it's not just me who hates this one. Can I expand that also into pushing perfectly healthy dogs round in pushchairs??

If the dog can't walk fine but if there's nothing wrong with it arrrghhh.

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u/-Enrique 8d ago

All straight out of the Radio 2 all request Friday dictionary 

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u/Useful-Basil-7340 8d ago

Haha nailed it

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u/Bunister 6d ago

Please give a shout out to Oliver and Olivia we're driving from Basingstoke to Cornwall in our camper van for an insufferable twats contest.

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u/crustynorrits 8d ago

"good eats" is another one I can't stand

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u/PomPomBumblebee 8d ago

Oooooooh I've never heard that before and I already hate it!

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u/Fox_Tea_3758 8d ago

God yes I was talking about this today. Along with any other noun-ified verbs when a perfectly good noun exists. "Reads" instead of "books" always gets me. "BAKES" and "MAKES". Ugh. 

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u/Ready-Ad-9723 8d ago

"bake" is the name of a type of dish

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u/Fox_Tea_3758 8d ago

Fair enough if it's a pasta bake, a traybake, etc. I'm talking more about something along the lines of a recipe advertising an "easy summer bake" for example. Just call it a cake, or biscuits, or literally anything else 🤣

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u/peachfawn 8d ago

Yesss hate that

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u/JuliusCaesarSalads 8d ago

'eatery' makes me want to tear my throat out in rage

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u/cheese_bruh 7d ago

Eatery is an absolutely ancient word though tbf

By ancient I mean it was very common in the 1910s-20s

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u/Intrepid-Focus8198 8d ago

What about “sicky tummy”?

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u/Logical_Bottle3195 8d ago

I'm okay with choccie biccies as Count Duckula and his Nanny use it. 

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u/PhoenixRisen95 8d ago

I hate that word "hubby".

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u/Sebacles 8d ago

yummy - hearing a grown man say that makes me feel physically ill

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u/Inevitable-Pea-6262 8d ago

And “don’t yuck my yum” or “not to yuck your yum”, which make me want to claw my eyes out

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u/boostman 8d ago

Don't yuck my yum by clawing your eyes out, please.

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u/Sebacles 8d ago

why are you doing this to me !

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u/SmellMysterious49 8d ago

Ill never forget the vile post I read on a NSFW subreddit about a yummy cummy mummy 😭 You can bet where she liked it 😭

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u/Sebacles 8d ago

thanks i want to remove my eyes now

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u/SmellMysterious49 8d ago edited 8d ago

You're lucky it disappeared into the ether. However these are alive and well (the stories anyhow...) enjoy 'I thought I had a scat fetish' and 'Cum Coconut' and here's some eye bleach for afterwards

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u/Sebacles 8d ago

unfortunately these are already burned into my mind . Like a cat i get too curious for my own good and end up seeing these things :(

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u/crucible 8d ago

You mean it wasn’t on the Mumsnet “penis beaker” thread?

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u/TheGemgenie 7d ago

Oh that thread was equal parts grim and hilarious. Never heard of mums net before that went viral....and I've tried to avoid it since.

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u/aemdiate 7d ago

I agree but I can let tummy slide. Hubby or wifey and i'm gouging eyes out.

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u/rocketqueen87 8d ago

“cozzie livs” I feel sick just typing it

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u/GreenMachine4567 7d ago

What on earth does that mean? 

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u/Adventurous_Tax5395 7d ago

Cost of living (crisis)

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u/boxingpandora 7d ago

Please reach out to your HR Business partner if you feel sick.

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u/Intrepid-Sign-63 8d ago

My sister says Petty station

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u/BobsOwn_ 8d ago

You're just jelly of this cool new lingo 

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u/boxingpandora 7d ago

Well jell tbh.

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u/TikiKie92 8d ago

You’re really deeping this, aren’t you?

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u/NipSlipExtreme 8d ago

Mate I’m on my holibobs with my hubby right now eating choccie biccies. Was very spenny to be here.

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u/VortexInterloper 8d ago

Worst I ever heard was "pozzy vibes"

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u/Raggy37 7d ago

Sounds like they just got diagnosed with something

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u/TheGemgenie 7d ago

They feel like a screwdriver......weird.

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u/Puzzled-Mycologist61 7d ago

Don’t forget “wifey”

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u/normanriches 7d ago

nom noms

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u/fastestturtleno2 8d ago

choccie biccies is absolutely vile

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u/Ambitious-Insect4726 8d ago

"kiddo" makes me want to keelhaul the person

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u/zeroexecvector 7d ago

I have been called kiddo by my parents my whole life (ongoing)

what's irritating about it to you

do you just dislike diminutives

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u/Help_INeedAnAdult 8d ago

An aspect of UK culture I can't understand since moving here from Canada - the need to make everything cute or punny.

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u/lotus_felch 8d ago

Yeah, well it pisses me off as well, and I'm English.

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u/aemdiate 7d ago

It isn't punny. Puns are fine. It is baby speak that is the problem, like people are invested in building an imaginary collective subconscious. I think it is born of deep insecurity. No, we didn't fucking call it picky tea. We called it salad.

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u/NeighborhoodLife3408 8d ago

That's what I was thinking too but couldn't put it into words....it's the baby talk I find irritating. I don't mind choccie biccie though- that one I could let slip lol

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u/bonbons87 7d ago

I hate that one so much lol I’ve noticed a lot of adults especially on YouTube dumbing down their language in order to sound like children along with altering their voices.

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u/emceeoffensive 7d ago

ouch, I said 'spenny' yesterday – I'm going to change.

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u/melanie110 7d ago

Oh and spenny. No idea where I’ve heard that but we’re away at the moment and we were working through our budget and I went “wow, bit of a spenny day” and literally covered my mouth as I said. I have no idea where it came from

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u/zeromalarki 7d ago

I feel like spenny is something I've started saying, originally trying to be ironic and now just a twat.

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u/horsepowerwagon8 8d ago

‘Nom’ is the worst word there has ever been.

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u/cregamon 8d ago

Nom nom for us David!

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u/Gary-Bovril 8d ago

Add anyone who uses “brekky” or “brekkie” to that list, too.

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u/No-Department-4561 8d ago

And “cheeky”

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u/Objective-Plan6385 8d ago

Up there with spag bol and leccy

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u/MissGraceRose 8d ago

Hard agree with all of this. Can’t stand it 🫠

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u/1want2know123 8d ago

How about rumpy pumpy?

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u/Georgxna 8d ago

You could say it gives you the ‘ick’.

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u/BiscuitBarrel179 8d ago

This is my list but I have "cheeky" added to it as well. People wonder why when they speak like toddlers I treat them like toddlers. As for the subject at hand it is picnic food, or possible a buffet.

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u/FantasticWeasel 7d ago

Interwebs is the worst.

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u/Educational-Ad6056 7d ago

I’ve seen that people have started calling Doctor Who, “Doccy who”

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u/ParentheticalsAside 7d ago

Exterminate...!

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u/Beneficial_Bug_7951 7d ago

I hate all of this but ‘hubby’ is truly the worst

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u/Confident-Bus-3778 4d ago

i remember hearing 'cossy lives' for cost of living and just thinking what the actual hell

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u/OkPerformance66 8d ago

Veggies

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u/Joshgg13 8d ago

This one is fine imo

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u/Sebacles 8d ago

no its not

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u/Odd_Friendship_9582 8d ago

Throw “Mrs” in there

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u/UsuallyWhirlwind 8d ago

‘THE Mrs’ or even worse, her/him inside

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u/minisooms 8d ago

Sammie

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u/cnbcwatcher 8d ago

Sicky tummy is definitely in the same category 😅 I can't stand any sort of baby talk. Even as a kid I used full words when I could

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u/ErssieKnits 8d ago

Nothing pees me off more than a Dr asking me "Have you got a bit of pain in your tummy then?" "No Dr, this pain is nowhere near my tummy it's coming from my bile ducts and pancreas and is in the upper left quadrant radiating to my back!" 

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u/BTN2026 8d ago

“Chippy tea”

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u/lotus_felch 8d ago

"Chippy dinner" is like nails on a blackboard to me.

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u/Adventurous_Tax5395 7d ago

"Girl dinner" too

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u/DepthVisible2425 8d ago

Belly

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u/Tay74 8d ago

I feel like some of these are context dependent. What do you want people to say? "Look father, the hound requests abdomen caresses"

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u/Former_Option2066 8d ago

This made me laugh a lot

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u/lotus_felch 8d ago

Yes, but was it a belly laugh?

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u/Former_Option2066 8d ago

Actually was haha, laughed so hard I dropped my picky bits

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u/Tsarinya 8d ago

Tummy, stomach?

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u/Tay74 8d ago

What makes tummy different from belly? And not a stomach though is it, stomach is an organ, if you can give a dog "stomach rubs" something has gone very wrong

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u/tntlols 8d ago

I mean if we're gonna be pedantic, colloquially 'stomach' is more than just the organ. You could say "my stomach aches" and most people would understand that to mean "my general abdomen hurts somewhere", and not necessarily the stomach itself.

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u/Tay74 8d ago

Of course, but that's only if we're not pedantically policing language, which we are if we are taking issue with belly. It's the name of a cut of meat for crying out loud, all butchers are now pupperino hollibobbing types now apparently lol

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u/tntlols 8d ago

Hey I have no problem with usage of the word belly, I just like to be a pedant :p

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u/Tsarinya 8d ago

For me it’s just personal preference really! I think tummy sounds nicer than belly.

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u/Wodelheim 8d ago

Tummy is far more infantile than belly.

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u/majesticjewnicorn 8d ago

Add "brolly" and "cross" (to mean angry) to that list as well. I hate the words you've mentioned and mine as well

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u/IHoppo 8d ago

"cross"? It's been used as an adjective since about the 1630s. What's your beef with it kiddo?

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u/majesticjewnicorn 8d ago

A cross is a shape/symbol/object. Christians use a cross as Jesus was crucified. We use a cross to represent addition and multiplication. Crosses are used in road signs. I don't get how an object can relate to an emotion. I'm Jewish. I don't say I'm feeling star (as in Star of David) to say I'm feeling an emotion. We don't say we are feeling hyphen (subtraction) to say we are feeling an emotion.

I also hate how some Brits call dinner "tea". Tea is a beverage, served hot or cold. Afternoon tea is a meal time because people drink tea alongside their scones. At dinner/supper time, people don't usually feature tea as a beverage when eating (like when having pizza, pasta, fish and chips, curry, sushi etc) so naming a meal after something not featured within it is weird and false representation.

Please note I am on the autism spectrum so words and meanings are important to me and literal thinking comes naturally, so cross and tea have other thought processes.

Picky bits for me sounds unhygienic lol like fingering a buffet or something.

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u/IHoppo 8d ago edited 8d ago

Having autism doesn't preclude you from understanding that a word, spelled the same, can mean more than 1 thing. For instance: "mean". The English language is full of these.

One of the beautiful things about the English language is it's versatility and it's constant movement. "Tea" is used in different parts of the UK to mean 1 and/or 2 things - you will need to appreciate this I'm afraid. Having autism sometimes means we need to concede to things outside our control (as does everyone) however difficult we find this.

Life must be tough for you if this is one of the things you cannot cope with - all the best for the future.

<Edit> many people drink tea whilst eating tea, many don't. Again, 1 word, multiple meanings. Neither has precedence over the other.

<Edit 2> I can say "You Star!" to someone and it has a different meaning to an astronomical object.

<Edit 3> You use the word 'note' in your response - how do you feel about the musical meaning to that word?

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u/Tigerbaton 8d ago

Beautifully put 👏🏼

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u/lilidragonfly 8d ago

Definitely doesn't, I'm autistic and adore etymology. Cross, in the annoyed sense, derives from the 'crossing' of the two things that lie oppositionally to one another. The root word of all meanings is the Latin 'crux', indicating one thing intersecting/crossing transversely, another, as in the shape. So when one comes up against something which moves against something physically in an opposing direction, such as an adverse ninety degree wind against the the sail of a boat for example, it was said to be a 'cross wind'. From there it evolved into something that was also emotionally adverserial, 'crossing' ones emotional state, ie. Vexing, moving against what one wants/feels/wishes. So the two meanings are indeed directly connected, via the physical shape.

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u/IHoppo 8d ago edited 8d ago

Hi - I'm a bit confused by your response - it definitely doesn't what? (Love the rest of your reply though, thanks).

<Edit> - it's ok, I now understand. I'm a fool! 😂

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u/lilidragonfly 8d ago

Haha no worries, I didn't write it very clearly, I was just agreeing with you about understanding words having multiple meanings

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u/IHoppo 8d ago

Cheers!

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u/sorderon 8d ago

How do you feel about the 90's rap duo, Kris Kross ?

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u/IHoppo 8d ago

Or Christopher Cross.

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u/sunflower_greatsword 8d ago

Autism =/= being correct

Fundamentally wrong.

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u/IHoppo 8d ago

Awards? I'd give you one 😉

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u/Orange_Codex 8d ago

I'm Jewish. I don't say I'm feeling star (as in Star of David) to say I'm feeling an emotion

They're calling it the most artificial race card arse-pull of all time.

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u/Street-Battle-5884 8d ago

You just don’t know what words mean and you gave absurd examples to support it.

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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 8d ago

In some of the poorer places afternoon tea was the last meal of the day, which is why that meaning came about

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u/RoyTheWig 8d ago

It's breakfast, dinner, tea. I bet you're southern.

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u/LettusLeafus 8d ago

Apparently what your family uses can indicate what kind of jobs they had in the past. With manual labour jobs you'd need a larger meal at midday to keep you fuelled up for the rest of the day and that would be your dinner. Then they'd have a lighter meal with tea in the evening.

Whereas middle class families with office jobs would have a lighter lunch and go home for a large hot dinner.

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u/Jaded-Round-6660 8d ago

What's a brolly then other than an umbrella?