Who No Longer Says Fortnight?

[boxtops]

I still say Fortnight, and Marmalade - what would you say instead?

http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/8-marvellous-words-we-want-back-in-the-english-language-11363929118568

[Psybbo]

I still use both, worried about losing Balders..............

[tonyav]

I still use both of those words.

[B00]

What do people say instead of marmalade then?

[Psybbo]

Excuse me Boxy, Did you have a good holiday, B00 and welcome back

[DTCwordfan]

Rarely so - too long living on the other side of the Pond. It isn't used over there.

[EcclesCake]

What has marmalade become......citrus conserve? Or some other poncy, pretentious term?

Total twaddle.

I haven't said fortnight for at least two weeks.

[tonyav]

What do the Yanks say instead of fortnight and marmalade, DT ?.

[DTCwordfan]

'Losing Balders'....in what sense?

[Daffy6543]

I say Fortnight quite regularly. I would use the word marmalade if I had need to but as we hate it in our house it doesn't get used much. Oh uses 'marvellous' all the time.

[Old_Geezer]

Not using fortnight and replacing it with "two weeks" would be as daft and not saying stone and replacing it with "fourteen pounds".

[Old_Geezer]

AS not saying
like I typed

[mikey4444]

I am completely puzzled here. What other word should or could I use instead of Marmalade ? Orange Jam perhaps ?

And Fortnight has always been used to describe a period of two weeks, especially when it comes to a holiday " stop fortnight" for instance. Am I missing something here ?

[Calibax]

A fortnight? That's two sennights isn't it?

[DTCwordfan]

two weeks and marmalade tony - one could suppose that 'orange conifiture' could be used though they would probably say 'orange jello' (sometimes used for jam).

[stuey]

Here in Ontario I hardly ever hear "fortnight"; however, that stuff in the jar with a golliwog is, well...marmalade.

[douglas9401]

This is the kind of guff you get when you employ a 22 year-old with an ology but not a clue about the real world and what's going on there.

[Baldric]

Sibs, worry not, Balders is Dashing around N/Kent, (see what I did there?)

[Obiter]

Do they still have the Golly on the jars in Canada? Long gone over here.

[corylus]

Round here (Yorkshire) 2 weeks is a fotnit.

[tonyav]

Ah yes I hadn't forgotten that the yanks call jam jelly.