The Campaign For Jolly Good English
The world is such an abrasive place these days. I yearn for the days of gentlemen riding their bicycles through the dreaming spires of Oxford, maybe stopping for a picnic or punting on the lake. When the world was full of men like Terry Thomas and Leslie Philips, a man who can make a simple greeting last for over two hours. A world where your best friend was either called Nobby or Ginger, the sound of leather against willow signified the game of cricket and not a fetishist’s party, and a gay day didn’t involve a Pride march. Below is a list of words and phrases that should be used more in everyday conversation, 1. pip-pip 2. tally-ho! 3. balderdash 4. gosh 5. dash it all 6. by george 7. by jove 8. by jingo 9. I say! 10. man alive! 11. hard cheese 12. it just isn’t cricket 13. flibbertigibbet 14. spiffing 15. old bean 16. cheerio 17. you’re a fine filly 18. jolly (very, as in jolly good fun!) 19. chin-chin 20. tea and crumpets 21. off his trolly (and/or rocker) 22. fiddlesticks 23. golly 24. rather! 25. he’s a cad and bounder! 26. I think tweed is rather fetching 27. tat-ta! (bye) 28. tea vicar? 29. bother 30. scallywag 31. Queensbury Rules! 32. cut a rug 33. oh flip 34. anything for the weekend? 35. I should co-co! 36. Sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman 37. beastly 38. the flicks (the movies) 39. good show 40. stuff that for a game of soldiers 41. a fib 42. a porky 43. a whopper (either very large, or a large lie) 44. totty (girls) 45. crumpet (girls again) 46. bad form! 47. sporting (gentlemanly, as in that was very sporting of you old chap) 48. ladies first 49. bad egg 50. japes 51. larks 52. awfully (as in he’s awfully good isn’t he) 53. oh eck 54. oh crickey 55. oh crumbs 56. lie back and think of England 57. stiff upper lip 58. there’s a good fellow 59. chap 60. chum 61. you can go whistle! 62. half-cocked 63. that’s dash decent of you! 64. gay 65. bally 66. steady-on 67. same to you with knobs on! 68. spit and polish 69. jezebel! 70. wireless (radio) 71. horseplay 72. ne’r do well 73. You have insulted a lady, I ought to take off my belt and thrash you within an inch of your life Sir! 74. poppycock 75. rakish (as in to wear your hat at a rakish angle) 76. stuff and nonesense 77. come-come! 78. hear-hear! 79. ding-dong! (normally said after seeing a fine filly) 80. vagabonds 81. shenanigans 82. by thunder 83. codswallop 84. whoopsy-daisy 85. gobbledegook 86. nutty slack (coal) 87. mad as a brush! 88. you little tinker! 89. squire 90. madcap 91. fisticuffs 92. a load of old tosh! 93. cut of his gib 94. blow your own trumpet 95. plucky 96. flabbergasted 97. slap and tickle 98. hanky-panky 99. worse things happen at sea 100. bottoms-up! 101. Doesn’t it make you proud to be British And this is just the beginning. Why not try some of these words tomorrow. Thank you, that would be dash decent of you.
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