Pax!

[ar_gemlad]

(Crossposted from facebook, because venta isn't on there afaik, and I'd be interested in her input as well as others

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[venta]

I am not on there, and hurrah for things being here, too!

I was familiar with "pax", because children in 1940s school stories and such used it. We never did. In Darlington in the 1980s we said "kings"; and my friends from slightly further north (and slightly further back in time) say "skinchies".

[ar_gemlad]

Cool :) I shall collate results if I remember on both FB and LJ

[valkyriekaren]

I suspect my playground terms might have been different due to it being a brand new school (the year above mine was the first 'full' intake - all the classes above were smaller and were people who had moved to the area). So instead of learning our play terms from other children at the school, we got them from parents, teachers or dinner nannies.

[badgersandjam]

Not exactly a truce word, but it was "uncle" to acknowledge you were beaten.

[venta]

I think we would have said "peanuts" there - derived (I imagine) from the game Peanuts. Which was a rubbish game, and basically considered of injuring each other until someone gave in (by saying "peanuts").

[bateleur]

I grew up in Cambridge and "scribs" (sp?) was the truce word of choice.

That said, I can't recall a single game in which immunity of this kind was actually part of the rules. It was more commonly used for things like tying your shoelaces in the middle of a game.

[marjory]

Like venta, I grew up in Darlington, Co.Durham. At my junior school, we said 'kingsies', but it only counted if both hands had their fingers crossed.

[venta]

Given how close our respective junior schools were, I'm impressed that there was even than much variation!

[marjory]

I know!

I think at Mowden we shoved'y' on the end of everything, hence 'tiggy'. You C of E lot must have spoke proper, innit!

[venta]

Mowden? Ah, that explains it :) I thought you went to Aldo. Anyway, "tiggy" is what all right-thinking people call it.

[celestialweasel]

Pax. Buckinghamshire, 1970s.