UK folks, without looking it up, do you know what 'druthers' are?
(There's a reason for all this. I need to know if the term works for UK readers in prose)
(There's a reason for all this. I need to know if the term works for UK readers in prose)
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Someone else mentioned that it was used in the North.
As a kid I didn't know what it meant and my speculation on "I've had my druthers" was wildly incorrect.
Might have been thrown off by initially reading "druthers" like it's pronounced as in "people who think 9/11 was an inside job and have a cold" though
(Although I'm amused to hear of this; I do use the expression from time to time, although it's not common in the USA. However, I'd learned it in a context that primed me to expect it was originally of UK origin. So, I'm learning something new, here.)
(I've been trying to hang onto this, and cultivate it, as a bulwark against the despair of eldering.)
But I read a lot of old fashioned books as a child. I think I’m the only person I know who says it aloud.
I assumed it was regional, I'm from the North East of England.
Derived from 'I'd rather'
I learnt the word years ago from American magazines. The phrase givens and druthers to be precise.
You'd fully expect it in Deadwood or Cormac McCarthy.
My druthers = I'd rather. My rathers.
It's definitely a word that feels like I *should* know what it means
Murican!
Yes, druthers is in my lexicon.
I heard it from her mother a fair bit, who was from Hythe, but she might have got it from her late husband, who was from Todmorden