OoP: Wotcha

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No: HPFGUIDX 62126

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ali" <Ali at z...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sara_ELL" <sara1412au at y...> 
> wrote:
> 
>  (who'd REALLY appreciate being spared the ignomanity of having to 
> ask a 10 year old kid, about the significance of Tonks continually 
>  greeting Harry with "Wotcha").
> 
> Ali responds:
> 
> I'm not sure that there is any significance. "Wotcha" 
> means "hi", "alright", "how's it going", it's just one of those 
> phrases you say on meeting people. It is a vernacular term, common 
I 
> think to London. I used to use it alot, before I went to University 
> and lived with people from all over the country who found that bit 
> of slang too entertaining for me to continue with it.
> 
> If there is any significance at all, I would say that it pinpoints 
> Tonk's origins to London. Alternatively, it could just be her way 
of 
> being "cool".
> 
> Ali
> 
> (Who is still in deep mourning).

Me : You see, now I live in london and I have never EVER come across 
anyone saying 'wotcher'. It sounds very Dick Van Dyck in Mary Poppins 
to me and a bit too much like a clumsy attempt to 'keep it 
real'.    :-)    In fact, that was one of the irritating bits of the 
book for me, that and the fact that she was called 'Tonks'.