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Do you know that LOL is even used in French for text/email messages, but also in conversation amongst the young ones - problem though, I wonder how many do mean what the initials stand for ...?

sorry I meant how many do know ...

Pigale, my 50-year-old sister-in-law often uses LOL (the 'laughs out loud' one) in conversation. 'OMG' is something else that now appears in speech - horrible.

I don't like LOL either Malone, but am afraid I don't know what 'OMG' stands for - am I being stupid ?


Rusty, your phrase 'get on someone's wick' is listed in my Brewer's and it comes from .............Rhyming Slang - I shall leave you to guess what rhymes with 'wick' .....

Oh My God, I can't believe you didn't know OMG.

You gave Rusty a slightly more explicit explanation than I did - mine was perhaps too vague?

No Malone, honestly I did not OMG, but it may not have made it to France yet ....(though I doubt it); I just have never noticed it mysef.

Pigale, count yourself very honoured - that was the first, and last, time I have ever used that abbreviation/word!

My reference books must be more highbrow and polite than yours! Both my Chambers and my Brewers say that "to get on someone's wick" is to annoy them!
There is another very similar phrase that does have sexual connotations...but not that one!

Malone, for those of us without a paper ( but a partiality for exclamation marks) what DID Melanie Reid have to say ?

Yes Elle, Brewer's says that it means 'to annoy someone' BUT it then goes on explaining the origins of the expression, and that makes all the difference.