***Official*** English Domestic Season 2008

[Neil Pickup]

Eh? Jamie Troughton is his name. "Jim" is, in the 1990s and 2000s, an old man's name. No-one seriously calls a 27-year-old "Jim". Both are short for James; Jamie is a young man's name where Jim is an old man's name.

Anyone born after about 1970 won't ever be seriously called "Jim" (or "Jimmy") by me.

I'm not quite sure it works like that.

 

[Richard]

So go on then - how many people our age or 10 years or so on either side called James do you ever seriously hear referred to (and no, James Street or James Anderson being called Jimmy on the cricket pitch isn't serious reference) as Jim or Jimmy?

It's a shortening that went out-of-fashion about 30 years ago and has yet to come back into.

 

[zaremba]

Isn't "tailed-off" a proper compound verb? Think I'd hyphenate that one.

My train of thought tailed off. It was a tailed-off train of thought.

 

[BoyBrumby]

My train of thought tailed off. It was a tailed-off train of thought.

Fair enough in that context, I was thinking more when it's used as a synonym for "declined" or "worsened", which I suspect would be the more common useage (in the assessment of a cricketer's performance, say) on a site like this.

 

[TheEpic]

So go on then - how many people our age or 10 years or so on either side called James do you ever seriously hear referred to (and no, James Street or James Anderson being called Jimmy on the cricket pitch isn't serious reference) as Jim or Jimmy?

It's a shortening that went out-of-fashion about 30 years ago and has yet to come back into.

I know 2 people called Jimmy. They are both 19 years old.

 

[Uppercut]

Today's News: CW discussion hits new low as posters debate fashionableness of the name "Jim".

 

[zaremba]

Today's News: CW discussion hits new low as posters debate fashionableness of the name "Jim".

And discuss hyphenation. Which was my fault, and I'm sorry

 

[Richard]

Can only blame Pickup for the James-derivative-name stuff though. And that's so much the best way for things to be.

 

[sledger]

Eh? Jamie Troughton is his name. "Jim" is, in the 1990s and 2000s, an old man's name. No-one seriously calls a 27-year-old "Jim". Both are short for James; Jamie is a young man's name where Jim is an old man's name.

Anyone born after about 1970 won't ever be seriously called "Jim" (or "Jimmy") by me.

Not even sure why I find that funny, but I do.

 

[Manee]

Are people really serious with this Jim chat?!

 

[zaremba]

Incidentally, leave-out wouldn't feel right at all. Left-out, though, yeah. I haven't ever really looked in depth into why (I just go on instinctive feel really). Maybe I might do then get back to you again.

Sorry, I know I'm a pedant but for all the rubbish you talk your posts are normally very literate, with the sole exception of your over-use of hyphens.

Oh, and

I'd leave-out MSP and pick someone else

 

[Richard]

Not sure where that came from, ITBT.

Oh and yes, I'm completely serious on the James-Jim(\Jimmy) thing. I've honestly never remotely given it a second's thought that it's a name-shortening which is used in this current day and age. My friends called James (and there's a fair few of them) are Jamie, Ja or James. Never, ever Jim or Jimmy.

 

[sledger]

Jimbob ftw.

 

[Jamee999]

Eh? Jamie Troughton is his name. "Jim" is, in the 1990s and 2000s, an old man's name. No-one seriously calls a 27-year-old "Jim". Both are short for James; Jamie is a young man's name where Jim is an old man's name.

Anyone born after about 1970 won't ever be seriously called "Jim" (or "Jimmy") by me.

Why doesn't he get to choose his own name?

 

[Jamee999]

Not sure where that came from, ITBT.

Oh and yes, I'm completely serious on the James-Jim(\Jimmy) thing. I've honestly never remotely given it a second's thought that it's a name-shortening which is used in this current day and age. My friends called James (and there's a fair few of them) are Jamie, Ja, Jamee or James. Never, ever Jim or Jimmy.

FYP.

 

[Goughy]

My friends called James (and there's a fair few of them) are Jamie, Ja or James. Never, ever Jim or Jimmy.

haha,

"Hey ladies, just call me Ja"

FWIW, I know a lot of people of a variety of ages called Jim. Generally you are James in school and after you retire. As a man you are Jim.

 

[fredfertang]

After all this levity a grave and weighty matter has been brought to my attention

Between 1895 and 1909 the means of point scoring in the County Championship was one point counted for each win;one deducted for each loss;unfinished games ignored. Championship decided by the greatest proportionate number of points in finished games.

This is by far the best means of addressing matters as I am sure all CW members will agree

So I can hereby announce that under these proper rules Lancashire did not, in fact, flirt with relegation but did win the County Championship.

Congratulations to Mr Law, his happy band of team-mates (particularly the ultra-happy Mr Cork)and .as ever, the wonderful Old Trafford committee.

 

[Richard]

Why doesn't he get to choose his own name?

Seems to me he has - Jamie.

 

[Richard]

haha,

"Hey ladies, just call me Ja"

That isn't as in "Jaa" but "Jay". As in Jay-Zee.

 

[Richard]

FYP.

P?