I am chuffed that they hit their goal!!
And so glad that you're going, Nadia!
Thank you so much for posting it! I wouldn't have known about it if it wasn't for you! I'm sooo excited to go!
Are you English perchance? English people are the only people I have ever heard use the word "chuffed" so now I'm curious. Ha ha!
Hah! 'Fraid not. I am West Coast USA: grew up in Southern California, then mostly lived in Washington State, with a five-year stint in the mountains of Texas.
I do, however, have a cosmopolitan vocabulary! You should have seen it when I was a teenager. I was just as ambitious in my diction as I am now, but while I knew a lot of words I didn't yet have the mastery to really pull it off, so my sentences were sometimes pretty ridiculous:
J: Have you mayhap apprehended what flagitious perfidy now agglomerates herein?!
Friend: What...?!!
J: It is as was foretold; forsooth we are witness to the promulgation by feckless wastrels of the mendacity of appetance, quod erat demonstrandum!
Today, my vocabulary is actually even bigger, but, A) I can actually use it all correctly; and, B) I've learned that expressiveness usually requires methods other than precision. =P
"Chuffed" is a fun one because some folks I read (all British of course) used it, and it's just a fun word. Plus its literal meaning is "swollen with fat" and that makes my inner fat acceptance activist smile, since we don't have many fat-positive expressions.
All of which makes me think...I ought to start a thread on my favorite hobby: etymology!
I hope you're still able to go to the concert despite troubles at home, and I hope it brings you a few hours of genuine delight!
