Posted by Jock on May 03, 2007 at 14:51:41 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re:Callum Home London posted by Mike Dennis on May 03, 2007 at 14:13:52:
Kids, apart from being poor English, always has overtones of delinquency or is used in a pejorative manner
Really?
I think that any negative connotation comes from a reluctance by some people in the UK to the use American English and that as Peter R states there is nothing intrinsically pejorative in the word itself.