Doug Holland@lemmy.world to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 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-square11fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down16
arrow-up1180arrow-down1external-linkSt. Louis County cops are hush-hush on job status of cop who went berserk at kids' Halloween partywww.riverfronttimes.comDoug Holland@lemmy.world to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareplanetaryprotection@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 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-squareDoug Holland@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·1 year agoI’m so old I still say ‘swell’.
minus-squareDoug Holland@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·1 year agoCat’s pajamas, baby
minus-squareBloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoMidwestern here, I’ve never heard ‘Mum’ be used in place of ‘silent’
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’