[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: What's "Cor" mean

[Sharon Hayes]

Mike:
Sharon, are you an ex-pat? Is "Cor" used Down Under?
Heck, is it used in the States for non-Brit characters?

Sharon:
I'm not an ex-pat, and we don't use it here at all.  When I was little you might have heard "cor blimey' or just "blimey" but I never heard it said by itself as just "Cor". I hear it a lot on TV though -- I was brought up on british TV programs and still love them. And we use a lot of the British slang terms here --most of those on the list on the "best of British" site at least. Young people, however, are becoming very Americanised in their vocabulary now, so it's slowly dying out. Also almost everyone here has expat friends, so the slang words are still common enough, at least in my generation (Gen X). We also use British spelling. The Queen IS our head of state, after all, God love 'er...  We call ex-pats "Poms" which has something to do with Pomeranian--not the dog type, but something to do with the military I believe? if anyone knows where that terms originates I would be most grateful.