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"Hotting up" is idiomatic in Britain. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/384556/hotting-up-vs-heating-up https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3

"Hotting up" is idiomatic in Britain. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/384556/hotting-up-vs-heating-up https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/384556/hotting-u...

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anoncoward111 8y ago
As an American who has worked 6 months in the UK, I never once heard this. An equally rare but still extant US slang phrase is probably something like "aint finna" or "i'm not about that life"
- BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
  "finna" is a hypercontraction of "fitting to" (via fit'n'ta) which comes from "fixing to" or "about (going) to". So "aint finna" is really "I'm not about to", which makes the connection to "I'm not about that life" more clear. [edited to add the connection between fitting and fixing] [edit2, fun asides aside, I don't see what relevance this has to the original comment about hotting up.]
  - totalZero 8y ago
    fixing* to
    - BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
      Same thing. See synonyms under https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fixing_to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fixing_to I've edited the above to account for it.
  - anoncoward111 8y ago
    Really confused why I'm being downvoted and why you are explaining what finna means. I'll restate the purpose of my comment again, in detail: 1) I said that I worked in the UK for six (6) months. 2) I said that I never once heard the phrase "hotting up", despite us often saying "make some tea" and etc. 3) I then compared the rarity of the expression "hotting up" to the rarity of certain "American" phrases. 4) I ultimately concluded that though all of these phrases exist and are used by English speakers, they are rare and niche. 5) That is to say, they are relatively obscure and not extremely widespread.
    - evgen 8y ago
      If you have not heard the phrase 'hotting up' then you have obviously not watched a TV weather report or really paid attention to your peers when they talk about the weather. It is extremely common here to use the term when describing weather that is going to become warmer over the near term. It is not rare, but its usage tends to be a bit narrow and is now most commonly applied to weather or to competition (as in 'the contest is hotting up' where an American would use 'heating up'.) You are being downvoted for being wrong and suggesting that your limited experience and apparent lack of awareness is indicative of the rarity of this expression.
      - anoncoward111 8y ago
        This comment is really representative of human ego and over-confidence. Note that I cannot downvote you, but you can downvote me. I offered an anecdote, you offered an anecdote. Many of my UK colleagues said "heating up a pot of tea". But, since you are so very confident of yourself and your country, you swear to me that my experience is so wrong that people should not believe it happened.
        evgen 8y ago
        You heat up a pot of tea (or would generally just say you are going to put the kettle on), you do not 'hot up the tea'. The usage is specific, which is probably why you did not notice it or pay much attention if you did hear it. OTOH, it is a very common usage when describing weather or competition. It does not take much effort to do a bit of an online search to see that the comment you were replying to was in fact correct that this term is idiomatic British English. This is not anecdote and is easily demonstrated through thousands of examples that are but a short google search away.
        pathseeker 8y ago
        >demonstrated through thousands of examples that are but a short google search away. There are also thousands of examples of bequeath but a short google search a way but that doesn't mean anything about its place in modern language. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=hotting%20up,heating%20up https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=hotting%20...

"Hotting up" is idiomatic in Britain. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/384556/hotting-up-vs-heating-up https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/384556/hotting-u...

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anoncoward111 8y ago

As an American who has worked 6 months in the UK, I never once heard this. An equally rare but still extant US slang phrase is probably something like "aint finna" or "i'm not about that life"

BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
"finna" is a hypercontraction of "fitting to" (via fit'n'ta) which comes from "fixing to" or "about (going) to". So "aint finna" is really "I'm not about to", which makes the connection to "I'm not about that life" more clear. [edited to add the connection between fitting and fixing] [edit2, fun asides aside, I don't see what relevance this has to the original comment about hotting up.]
- totalZero 8y ago
  fixing* to
  - BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
    Same thing. See synonyms under https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fixing_to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fixing_to I've edited the above to account for it.
- anoncoward111 8y ago
  Really confused why I'm being downvoted and why you are explaining what finna means. I'll restate the purpose of my comment again, in detail: 1) I said that I worked in the UK for six (6) months. 2) I said that I never once heard the phrase "hotting up", despite us often saying "make some tea" and etc. 3) I then compared the rarity of the expression "hotting up" to the rarity of certain "American" phrases. 4) I ultimately concluded that though all of these phrases exist and are used by English speakers, they are rare and niche. 5) That is to say, they are relatively obscure and not extremely widespread.
  - evgen 8y ago
    If you have not heard the phrase 'hotting up' then you have obviously not watched a TV weather report or really paid attention to your peers when they talk about the weather. It is extremely common here to use the term when describing weather that is going to become warmer over the near term. It is not rare, but its usage tends to be a bit narrow and is now most commonly applied to weather or to competition (as in 'the contest is hotting up' where an American would use 'heating up'.) You are being downvoted for being wrong and suggesting that your limited experience and apparent lack of awareness is indicative of the rarity of this expression.
    - anoncoward111 8y ago
      This comment is really representative of human ego and over-confidence. Note that I cannot downvote you, but you can downvote me. I offered an anecdote, you offered an anecdote. Many of my UK colleagues said "heating up a pot of tea". But, since you are so very confident of yourself and your country, you swear to me that my experience is so wrong that people should not believe it happened.
      - evgen 8y ago
        You heat up a pot of tea (or would generally just say you are going to put the kettle on), you do not 'hot up the tea'. The usage is specific, which is probably why you did not notice it or pay much attention if you did hear it. OTOH, it is a very common usage when describing weather or competition. It does not take much effort to do a bit of an online search to see that the comment you were replying to was in fact correct that this term is idiomatic British English. This is not anecdote and is easily demonstrated through thousands of examples that are but a short google search away.
        pathseeker 8y ago
        >demonstrated through thousands of examples that are but a short google search away. There are also thousands of examples of bequeath but a short google search a way but that doesn't mean anything about its place in modern language. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=hotting%20up,heating%20up https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=hotting%20...