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To Perish

Ponster · 2007-02-17 12:08:38

Does anyone still use this word these days? I just heard of the radio about a mother and child who perished in a house fire and realised that when people perish it's almost always in a fire. Yet my mother often says "It's perishing outside" or "I'm perished out". My Grandmother used to say "I'm perished with the hunger" or…

17-02-2007 1:08pm

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Ponster

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Does anyone still use this word these days?

I just heard of the radio about a mother and child who perished in a house fire and realised that when people perish it's almost always in a fire.

Yet my mother often says "It's perishing outside" or "I'm perished out".

My Grandmother used to say "I'm perished with the hunger" or call me a "little perisher" when I was annoying her.

HAs the word always meant all these things or does different generations change the way it's used?

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#2 20-02-2007 8:30pm

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I would imagine the word is still in everyday use.It usually is associated with dying in a horrible way as in a fire or perhaps at sea.It is associated also with distortion and shrivelling as in " the rubber on the valve was perished".

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#3 22-02-2007 3:26am

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Well, you hear the cliché "perish the thought" a lot.

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