Reply With QuoteI’d be in deep trouble if I referred to my mrs as ”babe”… 🫣Originally Posted by mickd1961
.......gets right up my kilt!
In our house either one ion us would smack the other if referred to in these terms!
Does Carol refer to you as "babe" Des?
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.......gets right up my kilt!
In our house either one ion us would smack the other if referred to in these terms!
Does Carol refer to you as "babe" Des?
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I’d be in deep trouble if I referred to my mrs as ”babe”… 🫣.......gets right up my kilt!
In our house either one ion us would smack the other if referred to in these terms!
Does Carol refer to you as "babe" Des?
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Should read “refer” FFS 🙄😩
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No, but I do refer to my missus as "Luv"
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A very negative behavioural trait Mick 😊 😉 .
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Think it was originally just a genuine regional form of affection which has been taken up by so many others that it just sounds like an affectation now. I've heard older people from Es*** use it and it's seemed authentic just as I'm one of those who uses "luv" which is more Northern.
Clearly remember meeting some when I was at uni using "darling" which I'd never heard in "real life" before and that was definitely a class thing then others from London saying "darlin'" which was also a class thing. When I worked in Grantham for a short while the locals used "duck". My aunt always remembers being embarrassed by her Dad when she was out in Brum with her mates in the 60s who would always greet her with "Alroight Bab" if he saw her!
You hear lots of other forms of address that either seem like affectation or influenced by other cultures from "buddy", "dude" to "bro". Not very traditionally English sounding compared to the likes of "luv", "duck" or "pet" ! "Bro" always makes me laugh when out of the mouths of young white blokes as it sounds like they're pretending to be Black but guess it's all just cultural in the end.
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She calls me a lot of things but babe isn't one of them.😂.......gets right up my kilt!
In our house either one ion us would smack the other if referred to in these terms!
Does Carol refer to you as "babe" Des?
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