2006-06-14 09:25:06 · 21 answers · asked by LINDA 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
People nowadays want short forms for everything...its takes time to say pregnent, and one day we will end up saying just preg or even pgn..
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2006-06-14 21:18:17 · answer #1 · answered by vinay_talks 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know when people started saying them. Why people do it? Because they're too lazy to say the full word? Maybe. Also, preggers or even preggo kind of rolls off one's tongue more easily than pregnant.
2006-06-25 03:49:52 · answer #2 · answered by MummytoBoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you! I thought I was the only one who didn't get it! I mean PREGNANT is not a derogatory word people! It seems so grade-school to me. Ugh I hate it "Yea so like I just found out I am preggers and I like totally don't know how to tell my mommy and and daddy!" Ugh If you are a child then I can understand but if you are a grown adult please don't use that word!
2006-06-14 16:44:31 · answer #3 · answered by 20mommy05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why did you spell pregnant as pregnent? I think people say preggers because they don't know how to spell pregnant correctly, and they don't want to look stupid.
2006-06-14 16:29:46 · answer #4 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just a short term, preggos, preggers, prego, all of which I've been using since I was pregnant with my last child who will be three next month.
It sounds "cuter" I think than knocked up too, don't you? :)
2006-06-14 16:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by barefeet561 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure...but to tell you the truth. I don't like it. There are all these abbreviations and slang words and its hard to keep up. Plus, according to colleges and work places its makes it hard hiring someone or having them take a proper English class because they are using so much slang word they are having trouble.
2006-06-14 16:33:04 · answer #6 · answered by brezzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably a new word just launched.Young people who like to be different say something is "cool" instead of satisfactory. They say a person is "gay" instead of homosexual. There are too many of these words to list.
2006-06-27 18:09:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Problem of abbreviation/phonetic ease. Also case of mutilating existing beautiful word with something ghastly.
2006-06-28 14:43:53 · answer #8 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont say preggers or pregnant i say being swelled up
Maybe it is a southern thing but i say swelled up
2006-06-14 16:31:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate that saying...i thought it came from Europe. Abnd BTW it is a saying that people have used for decades.
2006-06-22 21:07:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋