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@pimoore I have a weird relationship with that word. In my secondary school it was an article of faith that it meant sexually exhausted.
All nonsense, of course: itâs source is a word for being killed, as in âoff to the knackerâs yardâ. But a slight hint of rudeness persists on my brain.
@adders Exactly my experience.
With the added bonus of being a risqué sounding word that pushed the boundaries with my teachers without actually being punishable.
@billbennettnz @adders @pimoore I was scolded by a teacher during my first week in Secondary school for using the word; I just thought it meant tired and never knew why it was considered âfoul languageâ. She was a lovely Scottish woman, though firm and not willing to take any nonsense.
@SimonWoods I was in Scotland â I wondered if that was the common point; it was a Scottish assumption. But @billbennettnz has rather blown that out of the waterâŠ
@pimoore There is a line in a John Cooper-Clarke poem from the late 1970s:
âTires are knackered, knackers are tired.â
Which probably doesnât mean much outside of the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
@JohnPhilpin I met him once when the two of us were alone on the top deck of a Manchester double decker bus sometime in the late 1970s. He was relatively unknown at the time and, in hindsight, was probably on his way to buy drugs.