Wotcher

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 90978

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:
> ladyramkin2000 wrote:
> It's hardly ever used now, so I would agree that Tonks has 
> picked it up from her Muggle dad and thinks it is the essence of 
cool.
> 

Berit: 
> It IS the essence of cool... when Tonks is using it :-) In the 
> Norwegian language (I imagine it is the same with the English 
> language) there are plenty of examples of people picking up old 
> words/sayings and turning them into cool, "modern" words. For an 
old 
> word to be "re-invented" and becoming cool it is enough for someone 
> cool to start using it. And Tonks is cool :-) I'm sure Harry and 
his 
> peers don't think Tonks is daft for using "wotcher". They would, 
> though, if it was Luna who started using it LOL.
> 

Geoff:
I really don't think that your evaluation of "hardl ever usd now" is 
accurate. I lived in London for over 40 years and, although not 
a "native", used the greeting and still do, even in West Somerset. My 
two sons, who are hardly older generation, also tend to use it.....

Geoff (Viewing things from a great distance in Malta)