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22 January
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is *ol'* an abbreviation of a word or what?
is *ol'* an abbreviation of a word or what?
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Yes, it's just an omission of the word "Old"! (=the d is absent) Usually it's used like this:
"Good ol' Jessy."
"The good ol' times"
It's pretty much just a cultural thing and it isn't used a lot in real life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- English (US)
- Romanian
Yes, it's just an omission of the word "Old"! (=the d is absent) Usually it's used like this:
"Good ol' Jessy."
"The good ol' times"
It's pretty much just a cultural thing and it isn't used a lot in real life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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