Doug Holland to THE POLICE PROBLEMEnglish • edit-21 year agoSt. Louis County cops are hush-hush on job status of cop who went berserk at kids' Halloween partywww.riverfronttimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square11arrow-up1186arrow-down16
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minus-squareDoug HollandOPlinkEnglish5•1 year agoIs ‘mum’ meaning hush-hush uncommon? I’m American by birth, but I watch Doctor Who and other British shows and they may have warped my vocabulary… Mum’s out of the headline, and hush-hush is in. :)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoAs a non-native speaker, I was reading ‘mum’ as ‘mom’ and that was definitely not making sense.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoBorn and raised in the Midwest here - ‘mum’ meaning silent makes perfect sense to me. It’s not common but I would’ve chalked that up to time, not geography. That said, a saying like “mum’s the word” does strike me as British.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoMidwestern here, I’ve never heard ‘Mum’ be used in place of ‘silent’
minus-squaresquibletlinkfedilink3•1 year agoI’m pretty familiar with it, coming from the US also. “Mum’s the word”, “stay mum”. Quiet would have been an okay replacement too.
Is ‘mum’ meaning hush-hush uncommon? I’m American by birth, but I watch Doctor Who and other British shows and they may have warped my vocabulary…
Mum’s out of the headline, and hush-hush is in. :)
As a non-native speaker, I was reading ‘mum’ as ‘mom’ and that was definitely not making sense.
Born and raised in the Midwest here - ‘mum’ meaning silent makes perfect sense to me. It’s not common but I would’ve chalked that up to time, not geography. That said, a saying like “mum’s the word” does strike me as British.
I’m so old I still say ‘swell’.
Well ain’t that grand
Cat’s pajamas, baby
Midwestern here, I’ve never heard ‘Mum’ be used in place of ‘silent’
I’m pretty familiar with it, coming from the US also. “Mum’s the word”, “stay mum”. Quiet would have been an okay replacement too.