manicdave@feddit.uk to okmatewanker@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-26 days agoAndrew Neil gets dodgy box for Christmas ☠️🎄🦜feddit.ukexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1159arrow-down1external-linkAndrew Neil gets dodgy box for Christmas ☠️🎄🦜feddit.ukmanicdave@feddit.uk to okmatewanker@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-26 days agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareflamingos-cant@feddit.ukMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-26 days agoMr Neil, how can you use suck language like ‘m*llycoddled’? Children might read this!
minus-squareswab148@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoI wish I could have my molly coddled 🥺
minus-squarehappybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agohttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=mollycoddled The resurgence of this word is interesting. It’s mid-19th century slang, the last times it peaked were 1913 and 1948, and now the usage dwarfs either of those. What is the demographic of someone who uses this?
Mr Neil, how can you use suck language like ‘m*llycoddled’? Children might read this!
I wish I could have my molly coddled 🥺
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=mollycoddled
The resurgence of this word is interesting. It’s mid-19th century slang, the last times it peaked were 1913 and 1948, and now the usage dwarfs either of those. What is the demographic of someone who uses this?
Andrew Neill.