myoptika wrote:
BTW, I like your use of the traditional 'hallo' rather than that bastardised version we stole from the Yanks.
It's not traditional though. It's a fairly obscure variant that was popularized with a fierce patriotism by the Daily Mail-types of the mid-late 1800s and early 1900s, largely in reaction to the popularizing of "Hello", and the fact that "Hullo" and "Hallo" were already in use for other, different things.
It's sort of comforting to know that Britain was already going "Oh GOD now what have they done, they have NO class, quick darling, let's all pretend that we've been using this CHARMING old-fashioned, proper French word for years now. Honestly, they'll never learn, will they?", as far back as say, 1850.
Tam, I hope you are paying attention to all of this by the way.
But thank you for all the lovely welcomings! I guess this place isn't as scary as I anticipated afterall.