British Expatriate Network

OK, so I have a lot of eye rolling (I'm used to that) and giggles going on with my teens.

It seems that some words are hillarious and being dragged off to the word graveyard. As in Sunday's child being "bonny, something and gay"

After saying that there are catterpillars in my bush, that word was quickly picked up on and I made a list of what words to avoid from now on.

Well, there was some confusion with a teacher too recently after I said my son had read an adult book and we were very proud of him. So watch out the word adult has become extremely tricky.

Other words to use with extreme caution are...

• Wood
• Anything with the word wood in it, including 'pecker'.
• Balls (that one's old but still creates problems)
  

to be continued (I'm at work)

Thread title has a typo.... sorry!

You have my sympathy. My daughter's 5th grade teacher told me this week that she is now having to avoid saying the name of the dog that supposedly accompanied Lewis and Clark because of the falling-about laughter it evokes in some of the boys. The dog's name is Seaman.

(The Sabbath day child is "bonnie and blithe and good and gay", by the way )

There are two Alex Woods in my daughter's 5/6 grade class. One of them has been nicknamed Woody. There's just learning about the reproductive ststem this week. I wonder if anything will change.....

When did it become wood anyway?

Can you imagine two men in the car park of Home Depot saying... "That's some nice wood you've got there!"

No, because the word has been hijacked. It's right up there with hump, nail and bang which all have suspisciously have wood word associations.

(I don't think anyone uses blithe anymore at all) Ok, I don't either!