Hm. In my mind 'bint' has a distinctly rude feel, but I'm not sure why. I think it's just because I've always been a reader and I pick up words sort of by osmosis or something.
I was playing scrabble the other day and was just getting terrible, terrible letters - 3 Is all at the same time two turns in a row even though I'd used some - and I was playing with my niece who is - oh gosh - going to be 9 next month I think, so has no concept of building the board, and in consequence I was just doing horribly. I put out 'hies' but when everyone was all 'wtf sort of word is that?' I couldn't properly explain it other than by saying, 'you know, he hies off into the distance.' Well, they didn't, in fact, know so I had to look it up to prove it was a word. And all this after I'd let the little one have Peru on her first turn! :-)
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Date: 2012-06-26 11:55 am (UTC)I was playing scrabble the other day and was just getting terrible, terrible letters - 3 Is all at the same time two turns in a row even though I'd used some - and I was playing with my niece who is - oh gosh - going to be 9 next month I think, so has no concept of building the board, and in consequence I was just doing horribly. I put out 'hies' but when everyone was all 'wtf sort of word is that?' I couldn't properly explain it other than by saying, 'you know, he hies off into the distance.' Well, they didn't, in fact, know so I had to look it up to prove it was a word. And all this after I'd let the little one have Peru on her first turn! :-)