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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:19:14 +0100
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Subject: LF: Re: RE: Re: YL  XYL  YF  PR?
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Not PC enough......try SOOS  = significant other opposite sex   and SOSS

As a project ry: NYLNSY


-----Original Message-----
From: Andy talbot <g4jnt@thersgb.net>
To: 'rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org' <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Date: 15 July 2003 11:29
Subject: LF: RE: Re: YL XYL YF PR?


>In these days of political corrrectness, how about the term SO for
>  'Significant Other' - easy to send on CW.
>
>Andy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Rabson [SMTP:word.factory@zetnet.co.uk]
>Sent: 2003/07/15 10:17
>To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
>Subject: LF: Re: YL  XYL  YF  PR?
>
>Then there was OG = 'old girl' but even 40 years ago that was used very
>rarely.
>
>About 35 years ago I had what we would now call an animated discussion with
>Sylvia Margolis (G3UML's mother) about the correct telegraphic term for
>spouse. She insisted that YF was correct, but somebody else in the
>conversation suggested that it would never really catch on.
>
>73
>John Rabson G3PAI
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "captbrian" <captbrian@ukonline.co.uk>
>To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
>Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 8:36 PM
>Subject: LF: YL XYL YF PR?
>
>
>> No. Remember this was all devised long before  before ww2.
>>
>> OM  equalled "old man" as a form of address  of  pre-war everyday useage
>> similar to "mate" or "chum" today  .
>> YL equalled  Young Lady  - ie   "my girl-friend " or even " steady "
>today.
>>
>> . In polite pre-war days courtship had serious and honourable intentions
>so
>> it was assumed that courtship ended in marriage not just an "affaire".
>>
>> After marrying the "Young Lady"  she became  ex-Young-Lady.  Hence XYL -
>not
>> an insult but a compliment.
>>
>> When I was a bright-eyed teenager (around the beginning of time according
>to
>> my grandchildren now ) YF was equally common-place morse usage  for Wife,
>> but that seems to have died.
>>
>> Of course,  if so called same-sex marriages catch on  a whole new raft of
>> abbreviations could be devised !!
>>
>> ' Morse code usage is a living social history ' -   discuss. ;-))
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryan  G3GVB
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alberto di Bene <dibene@usa.net>
>> To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
>> Date: 14 July 2003 14:51
>> Subject: Re: LF: Re: stress with xyl
>>
>>
>> >Hugh M0WYE wrote:
>> >
>> >>I can't understand how the CW abreviation XYL came about. Please check
>my
>> >>
>> >>
>> >OM stands for Old Man and YL stands for Young Lady, supposedly the wife
>> >of the old man.
>> >XYL was introduced to indicate a next-to-become YL, i.e. the fiancee,
>> >before marriage.
>> >Then it became customary to indicate the wife with XYL, but the correct
>> >way should be YL.
>> >
>> >73  Alberto  I2PHD
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