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an old entry of mine from somewhere else 9 months or so ago that i have dragged up for repostage here, only because it's something i remembered about today and feel the need to spread around until it becomes standard vernacular:
i learned today that the British have a very cool word for this decade. In America we have always been at a loss for a good word for the 00's; we have 'the eighties' and 'the nineties,' but then we end up with the very awkward 'the two-thousands' or something else equally clumsy. here, they simply say 'the naughties,' which is a v. clever use of the old english word 'naught,' which for anyone not in the know means 'nothing' and can also be used to mean a quantity of zero. this is to say nothing of the huge potential for punning, which thankfully is done v. frequently.
this and 'muffin top' were two of the few non-american englishisms* that i took a particular liking to and adopted for my own use. For anyone who has not heard this before, i will provide you with the definition courtesy of wikipedia**:
"Muffin Tops is slang for people who wear both tight fitting low-rise jeans/pants, and midriff-baring tops. In many people, the resulting spillage of skin is said to resemble a muffin top"
"...on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Stacy London (host of TLC's What Not to Wear) noted the muffin top as the number one jean-related fashion crime."
* 'Muffin Top' seems to have been catching on elsewhere over the past few months, but i'm fairly certain in originated in London or at least England at large (where, despite what you might expect, the muffin top epidemic is several times worse than it is in the US)
** i find the picture / caption combo for this entry hilariously charming, probably because of its use of the standard academic encyclopedic tone
i learned today that the British have a very cool word for this decade. In America we have always been at a loss for a good word for the 00's; we have 'the eighties' and 'the nineties,' but then we end up with the very awkward 'the two-thousands' or something else equally clumsy. here, they simply say 'the naughties,' which is a v. clever use of the old english word 'naught,' which for anyone not in the know means 'nothing' and can also be used to mean a quantity of zero. this is to say nothing of the huge potential for punning, which thankfully is done v. frequently.
this and 'muffin top' were two of the few non-american englishisms* that i took a particular liking to and adopted for my own use. For anyone who has not heard this before, i will provide you with the definition courtesy of wikipedia**:
"Muffin Tops is slang for people who wear both tight fitting low-rise jeans/pants, and midriff-baring tops. In many people, the resulting spillage of skin is said to resemble a muffin top"
"...on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Stacy London (host of TLC's What Not to Wear) noted the muffin top as the number one jean-related fashion crime."
* 'Muffin Top' seems to have been catching on elsewhere over the past few months, but i'm fairly certain in originated in London or at least England at large (where, despite what you might expect, the muffin top epidemic is several times worse than it is in the US)
** i find the picture / caption combo for this entry hilariously charming, probably because of its use of the standard academic encyclopedic tone