"Darling" in an an Aberdeen/North East accent. I actually thought about this yesterday. I was walking out the building, and this woman at the reception desk saw the woman who I'd just came out into the foyer with at the same time and said (and imagine, Aberdeen accent):
"Oh hiya darrrrlllllen. Are we just eatin' here?"
Oh that does my fucking nut in. My brother calls his kids "darling" and it sounds ridiculous. He's obviously picked it up from his wife who is from Longside, verging on being a Peterheader.
My brother, a grown man, would have been a right lad in his day, saying "No, darlin' don't put your hand in the fire" or something similar in his tcheuchter accent just sounds wrong.
I also agree with "hun" (especially), "honey" and all such sweet nothings that people say to absolutely everyone they ever speak to. My hairdresser said it to me once - the first time I met her. Wait a minute, why are you calling me "hun"? I don't even fucking know you.*
Had she been hot, I would have let her off, but she wasn't... |