Just curious - why is it a sin to say preggers and preggo?

NikkiBenzo · May 2010

I personally don't use these terms, but why do people on this board hate these terms so much? I was just reading another post and someone told the OP'er that it is not accepted to say this.

These words are actually in the dictionary and are British slangs. Why is it ok to say KU but not preggers?

I am just curious...

Temp356619000002780 · May 2010

I don't know, neither one bothers me...

MySweetBaboo · May 2010

I don't know, I don't use them either, but they don't bother me. I did call myself a pregosaurus when I was pregnant, so I am guilty of using dumb names. Stick out tongue

alhal · May 2010

I personally think it is arbitrary and silly. I'd understand it if all slang were frowned upon on these boards... but people use all sorts of slang terms and abbreviations, so i'm not sure why preggers and preggo are so taboo. However, I noticed the distaste for this phrases when I first started lurking- so i'll sure as heck never make the mistake of using them in any of my posts!

Beccaboo0713 · May 2010

I think it's because it makes people feel like they are dealing with children.

Lot's of women don't like baby words. It's not just 'preggers' and 'prego'. They want to use words like sex, period, penis, vagina, etc.

I don't like those two words because they are like nails on a chalk board to me. I also don't like juicy, moist, and seepage (<---I mean there is just no good connotations for seepage).

ConnCottager · May 2010

Personally I don't like KU either. I just use pregnant. If I feel compelled to use an abbreviation, I'll use pg.

I'm not sure if this is the general feeling of the board or not. But to me, preggers and preggo is insensitive to people who have been trying for awhile. I want to be PREGNANT, not PREGGERS. It almost seems to belittle the experience to someone who has struggled (and this is coming from someone who has been trying less than a year).

Call me sensitive, but... Huh?

rrcraz7 · May 2010

The biggest arguement I've heard is that it makes people who use Preggers and Prego sound immature and childish

I dont' use them but I don't particularly care what anyone calls themselves.

Beccaboo0713 · May 2010

ConnCottager:
Personally I don't like KU either. I just use pregnant. If I feel compelled to use an abbreviation, I'll use pg.

I'm not sure if this is the general feeling of the board or not. But to me, preggers and preggo is insensitive to people who have been trying for awhile. I want to be PREGNANT, not PREGGERS. It almost seems to belittle the experience to someone who has struggled (and this is coming from someone who has been trying less than a year).

Call me sensitive, but...

I can see this too. Preggers denotes a flippant outlook on the experience.

BetchySprout · May 2010

Preggers/Preggo/My eggo is preggo makes me feel as if I am discussing TTC with teenagers.

I am also not a fan of KU but preggers sets my teeth on edge.

Beccaboo0713 · May 2010

Double post.

kerrbear72 · May 2010

NikkiBenzo:
I personally don't use these terms, but why do people on this board hate these terms so much? I was just reading another post and someone told the OP'er that it is not accepted to say this.

These words are actually in the dictionary and are British slangs. Why is it ok to say KU but not preggers?

I am just curious...

You're talking about me and I did not say "it is not accepted." I said they "aren't favorable words".

If you're going to quote me - do so correctly.

ConnCottager · May 2010

Beccaboo0713:
ConnCottager:

Personally I don't like KU either. I just use pregnant. If I feel compelled to use an abbreviation, I'll use pg.

I'm not sure if this is the general feeling of the board or not. But to me, preggers and preggo is insensitive to people who have been trying for awhile. I want to be PREGNANT, not PREGGERS. It almost seems to belittle the experience to someone who has struggled (and this is coming from someone who has been trying less than a year).

Call me sensitive, but...

I can see this too. Preggers denotes a flippant outlook on the experience.

That's what I meant to say Much more succinctly put!

Milliways · May 2010

IMHO

Prego is a very crappy pasta sauce not a baby growing inside of me.

Preggers just sounds too cutesy, like I am 16 or something.

KU has a bit of funny irony here because we are trying to get pregnant and knocked up is normally what is used when it just happens, KWIM?

Most common british slang for pregnancy is 'up the duff' or 'in the pudding club.'

Knock up in britsh slang means to wake someone or like put together with random parts, example we are going to knock up a deck from the wood behind the house

sandylou · May 2010

Beccaboo0713:

I think it's because it makes people feel like they are dealing with children.

Lot's of women don't like baby words. It's not just 'preggers' and 'prego'. They want to use words like sex, period, penis, vagina, etc.

I don't like those two words because they are like nails on a chalk board to me. I also don't like juicy, moist, and seepage (<---I mean there is just no good connotations for seepage).

LMFAO! This is true!!

jc51723 · May 2010

Because I am a grown woman, not a 16 year old girl.

BalletPink81 · May 2010

I have to agree with the previous posts, that preggers and prego just sound immature.

MrsR0908 · May 2010

mari2003:
I don't know, neither one bothers me...

this.. who really cares.. lol. I don't..

lmj8284 · May 2010

neither one bothers me either. but i have learned they are a no no on this site.

NikkiBenzo · May 2010

kerrbear72:
NikkiBenzo:

I personally don't use these terms, but why do people on this board hate these terms so much? I was just reading another post and someone told the OP'er that it is not accepted to say this.

These words are actually in the dictionary and are British slangs. Why is it ok to say KU but not preggers?

I am just curious...

You're talking about me and I did not say "it is not accepted." I said they "aren't favorable words".

If you're going to quote me - do so correctly.

If you are going to correct me, you might want to notice that I DIDN'T quote you - did you notice quotes anywhere in my post? I was paraphrasing - there is a difference, and I, as an attorney, am aware of the difference between quoting and not - hence the lack of quotation marks.

Temp878586125009588 · May 2010

Personally I don't care if people use it. I don't use it because I think it's silly and sounds childish, IMO. However, I could also care less if someone else used it.

NikkiBenzo · May 2010

Milliways:

IMHO

Prego is a very crappy pasta sauce not a baby growing inside of me.

Preggers just sounds too cutesy, like I am 16 or something.

KU has a bit of funny irony here because we are trying to get pregnant and knocked up is normally what is used when it just happens, KWIM?

Most common british slang for pregnancy is 'up the duff' or 'in the pudding club.'

Knock up in britsh slang means to wake someone or like put together with random parts, example we are going to knock up a deck from the wood behind the house

In the pudding club! That is too funny!

I read on dictionary.com that preggo and preggers were derived from British slang.

Winkski15 · May 2010

I think the general concensus is that they sound immature and we are all grownups here. I personally, don't really care. They don't bother me, but I don't feel compelled to use them. If I do need to abbreviate pregnancy, I'll use pg and not use prego or preggers out of common courtesy knowing that most women here don't like the terms.

HazelEyez24 · May 2010

I don't really care either but it does sound like a "teenager" talking when those words are used.

XXXXX222 · May 2010

kerrbear72:
NikkiBenzo:
I personally don't use these terms, but why do people on this board hate these terms so much? I was just reading another post and someone told the OP'er that it is not accepted to say this.

These words are actually in the dictionary and are British slangs. Why is it ok to say KU but not preggers?

I am just curious...
You're talking about me and I did not say "it is not accepted." I said they "aren't favorable words".
If you're going to quote me - do so correctly.

It was not a direct quote. Honestly, though, I'm not even sure what the point of your correction was? Does it really change the post at all to use your wording over hes?

kerrbear72 · May 2010

sulfababy:
kerrbear72:
NikkiBenzo:
I personally don't use these terms, but why do people on this board hate these terms so much? I was just reading another post and someone told the OP'er that it is not accepted to say this.

These words are actually in the dictionary and are British slangs. Why is it ok to say KU but not preggers?

I am just curious...
You're talking about me and I did not say "it is not accepted." I said they "aren't favorable words".
If you're going to quote me - do so correctly.
It was not a direct quote. Honestly, though, I'm not even sure what the point of your correction was? Does it really change the post at all to use your wording over hes?

You're absolutely correct in that it was not a direct quote due to lack of quotation marks.

My correction has nothing to do with trying to change the context of her post. My correction was to clarify the difference between what OP said (not accepted) and what I said (not favorable) since her post was clearly a direct result of my comment.

NikkiBenzo · May 2010

kerrbear72:
sulfababy:
kerrbear72:
NikkiBenzo:

I personally don't use these terms, but why do people on this board hate these terms so much? I was just reading another post and someone told the OP'er that it is not accepted to say this.

These words are actually in the dictionary and are British slangs. Why is it ok to say KU but not preggers?

I am just curious...

You're talking about me and I did not say "it is not accepted." I said they "aren't favorable words".

If you're going to quote me - do so correctly.

It was not a direct quote. Honestly, though, I'm not even sure what the point of your correction was? Does it really change the post at all to use your wording over hes?

You're absolutely correct in that it was not a direct quote due to lack of quotation marks.

My correction has nothing to do with trying to change the context of her post. My correction was to clarify the difference between what OP said (not accepted) and what I said (not favorable) since her post was clearly a direct result of my comment.

Your correction has nothing to do with anything really - you were just being defensive for no reason - I was just wondering why people get upset with these words and I wanted to let readers know what made me think of this so I used your comment as a reference.

Jessiac_3 · May 2010

lmj8284:
neither one bothers me either. but i have learned they are a no no on this site.

This. Smile

Nova726 · May 2010

kerrbear72:
NikkiBenzo:
I personally don't use these terms, but why do people on this board hate these terms so much? I was just reading another post and someone told the OP'er that it is not accepted to say this.

These words are actually in the dictionary and are British slangs. Why is it ok to say KU but not preggers?

I am just curious...
You're talking about me and I did not say "it is not accepted." I said they "aren't favorable words".
If you're going to quote me - do so correctly.

Oh please, get over yourself. I've been on this board for waaay too long and many people have said it. She may have referred to a post that happened to be by you, but she definitely did not quote you.

Milliways · May 2010

NikkiBenzo:

In the pudding club! That is too funny!

I read on dictionary.com that preggo and preggers were derived from British slang.

Yes, its origin/usage is in British slang, but not everyday slang like you are thinking. It was standard of upper class (and oddly enough highly educated) to add the -ers suffix to words. Such as is champers for ?champagne?.

"...As to the -ers in champers, starkers, stark ravers and goodness knows how many others: this quaint bit of philological zanyism seems to have started at Rugby, a public school (private school in the U.S.), over a century ago, then passed to Oxford along with one or more 'old boys,' and thence into chic young society along with one of more Oxford graduates. The standard word is corrupted, usually truncated, and then inflicted with an -ers. Pregnant to preg- to preggers and so on. On the whole, these concoctions seem to have a simpering sound and appear to be well past their zenith." From "British English from A to Zed" by Norman Schur (FirstHarperPerennial edition, 1991).

First recorded usage was in the early 1940's and then found its way into popular literature in the 1970's and had a revival I suppose with all the famous people getting pregnant.

Prego in Italian is actually quite nice for TTC as it literally means "I pray", but it's used very commonly as a reply to "thank you", meaning something like "you're welcome"

In Portugese it means, dowel or nail, which is also quite fitting.

I plan on using the term fermenting a jizz-load.

serwin08 · May 2010

Even though i wouldnt say it, it does not bother me when other people do. It does sound silly but IMO saying KU is just as silly. Imagine grown women going around saying that they got knocked up IRL. If someone walked up to me and said they got knocked up i would not know how to respond other than laugh. I would rather hear "I am preggers" than "Hey i got knocked up" Both sound equally immature. Thats just me. Say what you want..who cares what people think.

XXXXX222 · May 2010

LOL at Milli

NikkiBenzo · May 2010

Milliways:
NikkiBenzo:

In the pudding club! That is too funny!

I read on dictionary.com that preggo and preggers were derived from British slang.

Yes, its origin/usage is in British slang, but not everyday slang like you are thinking. It was standard of upper class (and oddly enough highly educated) to add the -ers suffix to words. Such as is champers for ?champagne?.

"...As to the -ers in champers, starkers, stark ravers and goodness knows how many others: this quaint bit of philological zanyism seems to have started at Rugby, a public school (private school in the U.S.), over a century ago, then passed to Oxford along with one or more 'old boys,' and thence into chic young society along with one of more Oxford graduates. The standard word is corrupted, usually truncated, and then inflicted with an -ers. Pregnant to preg- to preggers and so on. On the whole, these concoctions seem to have a simpering sound and appear to be well past their zenith." From "British English from A to Zed" by Norman Schur (FirstHarperPerennial edition, 1991).

First recorded usage was in the early 1940's and then found its way into popular literature in the 1970's and had a revival I suppose with all the famous people getting pregnant.

Prego in Italian is actually quite nice for TTC as it literally means "I pray", but it's used very commonly as a reply to "thank you", meaning something like "you're welcome"

In Portugese it means, dowel or nail, which is also quite fitting.

I plan on using the term fermenting a jizz-load.

Big Smile That is hysterical!! I am going to steal that from you... and we can abbreviate it like we do everything else on theBump as FAJL! So when I am in the 2WW I will say that I am FAJL.

On another note - thanks for the info on the terms - I actually enjoy this sort of stuff - the etiology of words.

vilaro · May 2010

Milliways:
NikkiBenzo:

In the pudding club! That is too funny!

I read on dictionary.com that preggo and preggers were derived from British slang.

Yes, its origin/usage is in British slang, but not everyday slang like you are thinking. It was standard of upper class (and oddly enough highly educated) to add the -ers suffix to words. Such as is champers for ?champagne?.

"...As to the -ers in champers, starkers, stark ravers and goodness knows how many others: this quaint bit of philological zanyism seems to have started at Rugby, a public school (private school in the U.S.), over a century ago, then passed to Oxford along with one or more 'old boys,' and thence into chic young society along with one of more Oxford graduates. The standard word is corrupted, usually truncated, and then inflicted with an -ers. Pregnant to preg- to preggers and so on. On the whole, these concoctions seem to have a simpering sound and appear to be well past their zenith." From "British English from A to Zed" by Norman Schur (FirstHarperPerennial edition, 1991).

First recorded usage was in the early 1940's and then found its way into popular literature in the 1970's and had a revival I suppose with all the famous people getting pregnant.

Prego in Italian is actually quite nice for TTC as it literally means "I pray", but it's used very commonly as a reply to "thank you", meaning something like "you're welcome"

In Portugese it means, dowel or nail, which is also quite fitting.

I plan on using the term fermenting a jizz-load.

FWIW, I have a ton of friends that are London transplants here in NYC and they all love to use the words prego/preggers/pregtastic when someone gets pregnant. Nails on a chalk board for sure but somehow when they say it it sounds more ironic than childish. It must be the accent. Smile

Milliways · May 2010

NikkiBenzo:
Milliways:

I plan on using the term fermenting a jizz-load.

That is hysterical!! I am going to steal that from you... and we can abbreviate it like we do everything else on theBump as FAJL! So when I am in the 2WW I will say that I am FAJL.

On another note - thanks for the info on the terms - I actually enjoy this sort of stuff - the etiology of words.

We wouldn't need the A to abbreviate it would just be spoken, so it would just be FJL.

Me too, the only other board I belong to is one that pretty much just talks about stuff like that.

skoogirl · May 2010

MrsR0908:
mari2003:
I don't know, neither one bothers me...
this.. who really cares.. lol. I don't..

I agree with this

LadieBumbles · May 2010

Milliways:
NikkiBenzo:

In the pudding club! That is too funny!

I read on dictionary.com that preggo and preggers were derived from British slang.

Yes, its origin/usage is in British slang, but not everyday slang like you are thinking. It was standard of upper class (and oddly enough highly educated) to add the -ers suffix to words. Such as is champers for ?champagne?.

"...As to the -ers in champers, starkers, stark ravers and goodness knows how many others: this quaint bit of philological zanyism seems to have started at Rugby, a public school (private school in the U.S.), over a century ago, then passed to Oxford along with one or more 'old boys,' and thence into chic young society along with one of more Oxford graduates. The standard word is corrupted, usually truncated, and then inflicted with an -ers. Pregnant to preg- to preggers and so on. On the whole, these concoctions seem to have a simpering sound and appear to be well past their zenith." From "British English from A to Zed" by Norman Schur (FirstHarperPerennial edition, 1991).

First recorded usage was in the early 1940's and then found its way into popular literature in the 1970's and had a revival I suppose with all the famous people getting pregnant.

Prego in Italian is actually quite nice for TTC as it literally means "I pray", but it's used very commonly as a reply to "thank you", meaning something like "you're welcome"

In Portugese it means, dowel or nail, which is also quite fitting.

I plan on using the term fermenting a jizz-load.

I found all of this interesting - but this made me snort with laughter.

mrswagoner · May 2010

lmj8284:
neither one bothers me either. but i have learned they are a no no on this site.

I agree with this Yes

mrs.monica · May 2010

not sure! When I was KU with DS this board did use PG instead of KU. I guess things evolve.

steff13914 · May 2010

Never knew that it was offensive to some! I'm definitely guilty of using the terms, but I guess I won't anymore! I personally do not like the term knocked up, but to each their own!

ikissedthecook · May 2010

serwin08:

Even though i wouldnt say it, it does not bother me when other people do. It does sound silly but IMO saying KU is just as silly. Imagine grown women going around saying that they got knocked up IRL. If someone walked up to me and said they got knocked up i would not know how to respond other than laugh. I would rather hear "I am preggers" than "Hey i got knocked up" Both sound equally immature. Thats just me. Say what you want..who cares what people think.

This. As far as the subject in whole... Confused

brandywine2010 · May 2010

mari2003:
I don't know, neither one bothers me...

Yes

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