Anyone Here Feeling Old? You will After Reading This

[rodentraiser]

http://mentalfloss.com/article/64669/15-common-expressions-younger-generations-wont-understand

[havanaholly]

I wonder what terms our grandchildren use to express the same concepts.

[KathieB]

2 hours ago, havanaholly said:

I wonder what terms our grandchildren use to express the same concepts.

I think they're using many of the same terms. However, they likely don't know the origin of most of them.

[rodentraiser]

I didn't know why we "turned" things on and off. And I always wondered what kids today think of the word "dial" as in dialing someone up on the phone. Can you imagine using the word "dial" with no idea of the connotation of where it came from?

[armymom166]

Oh, my, I'm old.  Very, very old.

[kathi17]

It's interesting to look up the origins of words. My grandmother always called cast iron frying pans "spiders", so a couple of years ago, I looked it up and found out why. I also found out why my aunt, and some of the other old folks where I grew up always called a chimney a "chimbley"!

[havanaholly]

My grandmother also called chimneys "chimbleys".