A word I accidentally stole...

So right before I woke up this morning I had this dream about having somebody I had a crush on over at my house (and by my my house, I mean my mother's. Since technically I don't have my own place right now) on this date thing. They brought a friend who looked a bit like Alexis (from Castle). Anyway, I was pretty confused about their relationship so when this girl went in to the laundry room to talk to someone I stood by the door.

...Okay, so I wasn't really standing by the door. There is a jungle of plants by this big window on that side of the house. I made like a sneak and watered some plants (mostly the ones I gave my roommate to look after after I left - don't know why they were at my mother's house) so I could half listen.

Anyway, I heard this sentence, "Yeah, it is really cute. You can tell he proper likes her." This was in reference to this crush person.

The suspending belief side of me during my dreams became so excited that I would have jerked awake anyway even if my rational mind didn't butt in. But it did. I woke up actually confused as to why I was using the word "proper" as an adjective in my dream.

Proper to describe a word is something is pretty unique to the British dialect - I want to say the Northern dialect more. Because when I was in London I didn't hear it. Anyway, I heard myself using it in my "inner voice" when talking to myself. Then I start actually saying it randomly when having conversations. Like accidentally saying someone was "acting proper crazy," or "I'm being proper ridiculous." Each time I would stop myself before finishing the word after proper.

I'd get this feeling like I got when I worked at Cedar Point and kept hanging out with my Croation & Colombian friends too much. To the point where I started to drop my pronouns sometimes. Speak in broken English accidentally to people that weren't them.

When I used it in my dream for dialogue I realized there is no kicking this word. I didn't like how others used it at first. It kind of irritated me. But it is growing on me now though.

Something I won't be stealing: The way they say "twat." I noticed they say it with the "a" like the "a" in th(a)t. With a super heavy accent. I say the "a" like the "a" in n(a)sty. So do most people that I know in Ohio. I say Ohio because dialectal differences can occur between states so I'm not sure if everyone pronounces this the same.

Anyway I sat on the couch while waking up just thinking about this. Literally pulling apart the dialectal differences I've noticed. Applying linguistic rules to everything I've noticed. Then I had this moment where I said to myself, "Why the fuck did I not major in Linguistic Studies?" But I also had this thought about Political Science and Biology a couple times. So I don't take them too seriously.

Oh well, I think...I'm going to get cleaned up and go on a walk. Stop and get some things from the shop.
I almost wrote "bits from the shop." Fuck me. I'm stealing all the British phrases over here now.