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BOSTIN and AKA

Shortie,

Dead right, but that would be A.K.A.

AKA (our kid) was common around Aston Hall Road/Electric Avenue - Bham 6. My mother also used the phrase when I Walked into the house - "It's the kid himself"

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I wonder if this was an area thing although i am familiar with both phrases i don,t remember using them in the Duddeston area we just said "our kid" and as for "bostin i always thought this was more West Brom and Smethwick for me.Dek
 
Well, splitting hairs it might be, but when I did my diploma secretarial course, we were taught the new 'block' method of typing, where you do not use any punctuation at all in salutation or addresses, etc, only in the body of the letter, so AKA is perfectly OK and correct without any full stops.

Not that I am a purist, you understand. LOL

Shortie
 
Thank you for your replies and your interest.
I only added the punctuation to emphasise that aka was pronounced as 3 individual letters, but to mean "our kid" it was pronounced as a word.

It does seem that at lot of slang was and is specific to communities but many words and phrases are "imported and exported" . You are right I think, "bostin" does have a Black Country ring to it.

May I recommend a book called The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona and Peter Opie.

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Another one for you ;
when surprized ; the saying ;
well i,m so god smacked ; where is that expression from ; ?.
havea nice day ; best wishes astonion
 
Astonian,

I think "gob" or "god" smacked is a relatively new saying. I don't recall hearing it before the 1990's ( maybe I've lived a sheltered life ). As to its origin I have no clue.

Regards
 
HI CHRIS
thanks for your reply but i must stand corrected it is the word gob ; what i hould have put
and not the word god ; thanks ;astonion
 
When i lived in Brum,my late wife and i used to go to the car boot at the slough on a Sunday and there used to be a burger van called "bostin banjo(e)s" banjo(e)s meaning sarnies and now in Somerset i have to explain when i ask for a banjo in a cafe ,etc
 
Hi Chris,i might go after dinner,so i might just catch the old steamer at Watchet and get to Dunster that way.its such huge event which over the last few years has been ruined by the rain,and today its touch and go.Still whats a few drops of rain when squelching in mud,just like being a nipper again
 
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