What's wrong with calling a cat Cookie? As your link above says, it's "a nicer name for a pussy."
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I heard a story that it was changed because "cookie" apparently refers to, ahem, something rude - but blimey, doesn't everything nowdays?
I dunno, I'll never watch Blue Peter with the same innocence again
What's wrong with calling a cat Cookie? As your link above says, it's "a nicer name for a pussy."
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yeah i read that, about the Blue Peter name. I had not heard of "cookie" to mean anything rude - obviously a childs word from somewhere. The point is though, they asked people to phone in and vote for a name and then COMPLETELY IGNORED the vote - which did actually cost people money. ALL involved should be sacked in my opinion.
Ah phone ins. I remember the days when phone in competitions would have difficult questions - nowadays they make the questions as stupid and easy as possible to make more money. Very sad.
"Cookie" was the name I was told to use for my lady bits when I was a child!
Also flower and halfpenny, pronounced huppeny in Dundee!!
Any more and are there regional variations?
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Personally, I object to Cookie on the grounds that the english word is 'biscuit'. Cookie is an american word, and just as a muffin is a small, round bread cake for toasting on the fire and eating with butter (not a glutinous stodgy thing that is an excuse to sell blueberries that nobody otherwise eats), so the cat should have been called Biscuit.
Lots of words which are assumed to be Americanisms aren't. For example, I believe Fall is the original name for this season; guess it just went to America with the other travellers on the Mayflower.
its still an Americanism as it has long died out here.
although i do like the american way of remembering the "daylight savings time" changes - "spring forward, fall back"
Nah, don't agree.
In the seventeenth century 'fall' was the word used in england for the period between summer and winter. But for the last 150 years it's not been used. So if it suddenly regains popularity it won't be because people think they want to bring back an olde englishe worde for autumn, it'll be because they hear it all the time on TV and in films. So it would be an americanism.
From wiki:Basically American English is actually slightly old-fashioned in some respects.The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in the early 17th century. Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of about 470–570 million people: approximately a quarter of the world's population in that time.
Over the past 400 years, the form of the language used in the Americas – especially in the United States – and that used in the United Kingdom and the rest of the British Isles have diverged in many ways, leading to the dialects now commonly referred to as American English and British English. Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary (lexis), spelling, punctuation, idioms, formatting of dates and numbers, and so on.
It could be rhyming slang - "Cooking Fat" and you can work the rest out for yourself!
Nicked from elsewhere, but "that's the way the cookie crumbles"
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I heard a story that it was changed because "cookie" apparently refers to, ahem, something rude - but blimey, doesn't everything nowdays?
I dunno, I'll never watch Blue Peter with the same innocence again
What's better then..........Hot Cookie???
Or Hot Socks???
Oh dear I need to change my surname quick - my whole life I've been called Cookie and numerous variations thereof.....I thought people were being nice to me wen they caleld me it!
I wonder if my parents would mind if i changed my name from Cooke!
I'm sorry but Socks?? are they going to get another dog next and call it thong? but to be honest Blue Peter in another Phone poll fixing....Shocker!!!!
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