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Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 2:47 pm
My dad used to say it relatively frequently but he's the only person I ever heard say it by myself after he taught me (many many years ago):
Spifflicate.
Ever heard of it?
I haven't heard anyone else say it.
"spifflicate
ˈspɪflɪkeɪt/
verbinformalhumorous
treat roughly or severely; destroy."
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Not for a long time, but yeah.
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:17 pm
I knew I could count on you.
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:42 pm
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(September 17, 2016 at 5:17 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I was born in Wolverhampton. Maybe it's a Midlands thing
Omg you're just up the road from me! I'm on the other side of Birmingham
As if, I always had the vibe you were a posh southerner but you're a yamyam.
And yes I've heard the word before, but not so regularly that I'd call it a "Midlands thing"
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:43 pm
I was born in Wolverhampton. Haven't lived there for over 20 years.
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RE: Ever heard anyone say this word?
September 17, 2016 at 5:44 pm
Ohhh, ok
I hope you've lost the accent, for shame
I want to lose my Birmingham accent as soon as I leave
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie