Thread: Silliness Words that should be outlawed or restricted.
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Old 03-21-2010, 11:40 PM   #39
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Originally Posted by montsnmags View Post
I don't get it.
Only a resident of Oz could get away with a word like "sunnies". Maybe it's the rough and rugged Crocodile Hunter factor, or the adventuresome Crocodile Dundee factor that gives you folks a pass, but in the mouth of anyone but an Aussie, such words sound absurd. Which is why we Yanks don't say Crikey or Blimey. We could never pull it off!

Too bad, too. Crikey's fun to say!
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