More linguistic questions

[chicken]

So I thought of another typical word my mother loved to use a lot -- skedaddle. I now realize that not everyone has heard this word, and some people laugh at me when I say it.

The other thing I like about it is that it goes nicely with that word made so famous by Oz in BtVS, namely, "mosey". (For a fascinating article about the contradictory meanings of this, see the "Slow down faster" section of this article.)

Mosey! Skedaddle!

I just love words.

So do other people use "skedaddle"?

And what about vamoose? That was another of her favorites.

Comments

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

I always had older people tell me, "Katie bar the door," and laugh hysterically. I never knew what it meant. I still don't, but I don't hear it anymore. Thank goodness. That used to drive me nuts.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I'm not sure what that means without context -- what was the context?

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

Idon't know! Old people would say that to me in elementary school. There never seemed a context. Then, they'd just cackle hysterically. I'm sure I could google it, but I'm too lazy. Also, when I google, I get sucked into other things and waste too much time.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Me too -- one google search leads to another, which leads to a weird tangent, which leads to strange Wikipedia articles, which lead to other things ...

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