dave61430 wrote:
It’s been over 50 years since I left there, used to say ‘Cheerio’. How about ‘Tat-ta for now’, or is that gone too.
Ta-ta’s have an entirely different meaning here in the States. 
But then so does the word . . . nahhhh, better not say it. The PC police might jump all over me. Anyway, in Britain I’m told it is the vernacular for a cigarette.
