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Daily writing prompt

If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?

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Mmmm, this is interesting! I’m not sure! I have a tendency to pick up a certain word, using it loads but then picking up a different word and using that instead.

Here is a small list of words I’ve gone through!

Oh boy! – I was a child and picked it up from my friends but didn’t use it for very long.

Oh man! – I was a child and a tomboy, who’s majority friends were boys and most boys used this at some point, so I remember specifically copying it and using it purposely to fit in better with them, until it became second nature, though I eventually stopped it, when they did.

Bloody hell! And Bloody used to empathise something – I assume I just picked this up from the environment, it is very common for this to be used in the UK and I still use this now and again but not as much as I used too.

Jeez! – This is likely from the amount of American media I used to watch and I picked it up but don’t use it as much but still now and again.

What the hell? – One again likely picked up from American media but unlike Jeez, I hardly use this anymore.

Jesus! Jesus Christ! – Again, likely picked up from American media and I still use this, very commonly too.

You alright? – Even though this being used as a greeting in the UK for a while, I only picked it up recently and found myself using it as a way to say hello, instead of using it as another way to say how are you? Which is what I used to use it for, until I found myself using it as a greeting recently.

Right now I’m using “Jesus Christ” a lot and “You alright?” A lot.

So I guess I can just give up one of those. I think I’d give up saying Jesus Christ as an explanation because it would be easy to fill the word with something else. While I was kind of proud of myself for actually using “You alright?” And it feeling natural, because I was told for so long that it is a thing brits do but I was always like, I don’t do that! Thats odd! It should be used for, are you okay or how are you?! But despite that I still felt like I wanted to join in, you know? And now I’m actually using it and I’m like yay, I can do it now too! So I don’t think I can take that away from myself! Ha!