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Outsider
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 Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:25 am Post subject: Righto, good egg! |
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| I'm curious to know whether 'righto' and 'good egg' are dated expressions. Thank you. |
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MrPedantic
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
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Location: Southern England
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Outsider
You do still hear "righto" and "good egg" in British English (the former more commonly than the latter); but mostly in a humorous spirit.
The humour consists of "deliberately using old-fashioned expressions".
(On the other hand, many British people are so addicted to "ironic" usages of this kind, that they become second nature; at which point the "humour" all but disappears.)
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