V interesting! Words which come down from intellectuals & those which come up from popular culture.
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Imagine what that spread will look like 50 years from now with so much online media interference.
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Its interesting coz usually Brits take on americanisms. Happens far less the other way round.
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When it does,it usually comes from US academics being pretentious. Why 'snog' and 'ginger' so significant
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But you two sounded as though its not in common parlance but recognised from Brit books?
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Not me. I got snog from Harry Potter for sure. Ginger, though, I think that may be much older.
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I feel like I've been hearing jokes about gingers having no souls for many years for instance.
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Though there is a really common ginger joke that comes directly from Harry Potter....
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Goes something like "I thought Harry Potter was non-fiction until I read that a ginger had friends."
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On second thought, maybe both did come from HP. It is a rather old series.
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I'm going to have to double-check this now.
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