Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2010
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quantitative easing
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I too nominate twatcock, but also put to you: Real New Zealander, which I find people using regularly for any signs of ironic non-New Zealandness (being brown, not being able to finish a beer, being a fucking cyclist, etc.)
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Curious, I've always heard it as twotcock. Never even considered the other way, which I also never use on its own, it always seems more like UK slang to me.
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The Oxford Dictionary WOTY is "Big Society". Beating "double-dip" and "vuvuzela".
They seem a bit staid in comparison. Got to keep a 'stiff upper lip' I suppose.
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Sacha, in reply to
it felt like the year when twitter hashtags became part of the parlance
would you feel better about #twatcock then?
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I'm feeling a bit icky at the thought of a scatological twatcocks
Yes, that's a fairly extreme perversion, one-upping mere scat.
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Twatcock all the way, no contest!
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Yup this was the year of #eqnz. No doubt. And someone's already mentioned the other #eqnz 'liquefaction'.
The other quakey word/phrase = 'No Go'.Which somehow always made me start to sing a bit of Hall & Oates 'I can't go for that (no can do)'.
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recordari, in reply to
Where others might have thought 'Say no go' by De La Soul. Just sayin'.
[#TC}
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Tom Beard, in reply to
Curious, I’ve always heard it as twotcock. Never even considered the other way, which I also never use on its own, it always seems more like UK slang to me.
That's why I always heard it as an "a" sound: "twat" seems a very British insult to me. In the same way, while I say "arse" rather than "ass", "jackass" can only ever be pronounced in the donkeyesque manner, since the concept is so thoroughly American.
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Jacob Powell, in reply to
Arguably, a twatcock comes pre-vajazzled.
One small sentence for [a] (wo)man, one giant 'leap' for (wo)mankind #toomanymeanings!
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BenWilson, in reply to
Most of English is of British origin, but I think at least in NZ and Australia, Twot would be the more common pronunciation. So, are we claiming this word?
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Jacob Powell, in reply to
Looks like we've opened up a right old can of twatcock! I guess twatcock truly is in the mouth of the orator...
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Am I really the only one who doesn't particularly like 'twatcock'? While I'm normally in full favour of creative obscenity, it just does nothing for me. Plus, it sounds a bit too much like 'spatchcock' for me.
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Gregor Ronald, in reply to
I agree - "aftershock" is the word of the year in Canterbury.
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Jolisa, in reply to
One small sentence for [a] (wo)man, one giant ‘leap’ for (wo)mankind #toomanymeanings!
Also, possibly the vilest sentence my fingers have ever typed. The mental picture is deeply troubling, although sparkly. #glamrocktwatcock
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I seem to be in the minority with pronouncing the 'a' in twatcock like the one in hat - it just seems to come out angrier that way.
I'm also rather liking commisibration which Emma has been using quite a bit lately. And, #eqnz related, chimney as in what none of us have anymore.
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A figurative and literal antipodes of the small mouthful of plosive local twatcock is the large tongue-bending dorsal approximant of international Eyjafjallajökull.
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Jolisa, in reply to
Oh dear, a vajazzled and spatchcocked twatcock? The mind revolts.
"Aftershock" is a really strong contender, not least because at some level Pike River could also be said to be one. For an island (and a country) that has been so badly shaken this year.
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Jolisa, in reply to
I’m thinking outside the square
And not making a hash of it, either. I like your thinking. Punctuation of the Year?
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Eyjafjallajökull
How quickly we forget.
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Where others might have thought ‘Say no go’ by De La Soul.
Which, I only realised *this year*, samples 'I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)'! (Because I am quite slow on the uptake sometimes. I don't even want to tell you how old I was when I finally understood that the line I never got in 'She Loves You' was 'pride can hurt you too'.)
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Steve Reeves, in reply to
But, but...... "jackass" happens because the male donkey is a jack ass, whereas the female is a jill.
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Russell: I'm late to the post again, sorry, if my word has already been suggested and discussed and dismissed I do apologise. But if it hasn't...that word is Twatcock. I cannot take credit for the word's coining, I believe that honour goes to the wondrous- with-words, Jolisa. But it must be a contender for PA word of the year.
Okay, just seen someone's beaten me to it. Poop.
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Am I really the only one who doesn’t particularly like ‘twatcock’? While I’m normally in full favour of creative obscenity, it just does nothing for me. Plus, it sounds a bit too much like ‘spatchcock’ for me.
As general obscenity goes, no. I mean, it's no f*&knuckle. Or knobend, even.
But for this particular community, it is unparalleled in its excellence.
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