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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Jeff Wrangler:
I seem to have developed the habit of addressing strangers as "Friend."
Strangers. Store clerks. Homeless people you give a quarter to. Those types.
CellarDweller:
keep doing it....sometimes, that's what is needed to be heard.
Front-Ranger:
I just emailed the latest status on the Hatchery Fire to EDelMar, Offline Chuck and Pete (Vermont Sunset) and finished with this line:
Besides, I'm a little jumpy about wildfires in Wyoming ever since our Jack of Spades lost his cabin there. "Once burned" to use a Brokieism. FR
Front-Ranger:
I looked it up in the story and it says, "Once burned." so it's definitely a Proulxism and a Brokieism! (It would be a good scrabble word if it weren't a proper noun!)
And the idiomatic dictionary says Americans are more likely to say "once burned. . ." while others would say "once bitten". I wonder why.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 26, 2016, 05:09:17 pm ---And the idiomatic dictionary says Americans are more likely to say "once burned. . ." while others would say "once bitten". I wonder why.
--- End quote ---
Interesting. I had not heard "Once Burned" until BBM. However, I was very familiar with the expression "once bitten, twice shy."
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