Cee reveals her true mental age

[odycee]

Okay, so I was going to post about Merlin and how I've watched this weekend's episode three times already (!) but I was tired and needed to unpack stuff because I'm back in Hull, so I didn't in fact intend to post at all. But now I've got to post, because I discovered the reason that the word 'prat' seems to be picked up upon so much, and on occasion used bizarrely, in the Merlin fandom (and who'd have thought it would have one so quickly?) is because it's not in American usage. This is like when I first moved away from Nottingham and realised that the word 'mardy' wasn't in general usage - how do people function without these words (especially mardy)?

What's just amused me is if you go here you can hear an English person (with très posh accent) and an American person pronouncing the word prat. What's even more amusing is if you go here you can hear the same voices saying 'fanny'. Yes, I am actually eight years old.

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[odycee.livejournal.com]

I guess it does mainly mean idiot over here too but I guess with extra bits!

But mardy is an amazing word!

...'stroppy' would be similar, as would 'to have a strop', but it's a bit too aggressive and sulky. Mardy has much more of a whine to it. 'Tantrum' isn't really applicable, since mardies are more likely to be ignored/shoved into the corner than to cause a scene.

Whingeing, sulky, snivelling... all have their merits, but none quite capture the soggy mix of petulance and patheticness that mean someone's got a mardy on them.