B-day used in speech

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23 Jun 2018, 3:04 pm

What do you think about when people use the bday for birthday abbreviation in speech? To me it sounds strange when people use it in speech.

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23 Jun 2018, 3:21 pm

It's no different when people talk abbreviated text/chat slang in conversation. Like when a teen girl says L.O.L. or B.R.B when talking to her friends.

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23 Jun 2018, 3:22 pm

When you get through a day without any major mistakes, that's an A-day. When you slip up a little, that's a B-day.

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23 Jun 2018, 3:25 pm

Syd wrote:

When you get through a day without making any major mistakes, that's an A-day. When you slip up a little, that's a B-day.

B-day could also be slang for b!tch-day

I'm having such a B-day. My boss chewed me out, my car had a flat tire, & the wife is on my case about something.

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23 Jun 2018, 3:37 pm

Thanksgiving was a total D-day. The turkey was too dry and my in-laws got all Allied Forces on my punk ass.

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24 Jun 2018, 3:51 am

To me it only makes sense in text.

I use one abbreviation in speech, lol. But I don't pronounce it ell oh ell, I say it like a word, like in LOLlipop.

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24 Jun 2018, 11:51 am

I haven't heard this myself, but I can only think it would be pronounced the same as "bidet". I don't think I'd want to give the impression that I'm celebrating a piece of porcelain dedicated to washing my bottom!

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24 Jun 2018, 1:08 pm

Trogluddite wrote:

It's pronounced like "bee day" when used in speech.

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24 Jun 2018, 3:41 pm

^ Here in the north of the UK, "bidet" is usually pronounced "BEE-day", but I guess it must be different where you are?

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24 Jun 2018, 3:52 pm

Trogluddite wrote:

^ Here in the north of the UK, "bidet" is usually pronounced "BEE-day", but I guess it must be different where you are?

I don't know. Where I come from we use toilet paper, not bidets and therefore I don't really use the word.

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24 Jun 2018, 6:42 pm

NewTime wrote:

Trogluddite wrote:

^ Here in the north of the UK, "bidet" is usually pronounced "BEE-day", but I guess it must be different where you are?

I don't know. Where I come from we use toilet paper, not bidets and therefore I don't really use the word.

Oh I know what word Trogluddite is talking about now. I thought it was a word that was actually pronounced bid-et like bidding on eBay & rhymed with set :lol:

I tought that B-day would be spelled something like Beday or Beedae :lol:

I blame my dyslexia

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