On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:18:07 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 07/06/2013 6:24 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> used by the chinless wonder type.
>> :)   Yeah, it does seem to be marketingspeak mor ethan anything.
>>
>>
> It always has been. It comes from the days when the nob's word was their
> bond. Even if they did not pay their accounts for years.
> Originally it meant fiancée. She was bespoke, or spoken for. IIRC

Word history is always interesting.  :)

> 
>>> >On a recent job in America it became common to hear Americans use it
>>> >albeit self-consciously.
>> Interesting, because I don't think I've ever heard it in the US or used
>> by Americans before.
> 
> No, you wouldn't. There were about a dozen of us Brits working on the
> project in NM. Gee! we were "cute" with our funny English accents.
> I through a wobblie in Walmart.
> 
> "I'm too old to be cute. Ma'am"

LOL

JIm

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