Pronounced, as in "Nanny." As a shorter and easier way to scream out "Happy New Year."
Примеры использования:
. . . . Bored yet?
"First day back-itis" hit hard?
Holiday gone wooosh and just a faint memory? Still, a few reminders linger. Like, 250 e-mails to EnL&rge your P3n!S -- you must have been away long. The unfamiliar chaffing of the collar and tie and feet squeezed back into work shoes.
Then of course there is the ritual of saying HAPPY NEW YEAR! To colleagues and most importantly customers. They expect it after all. It's polite. So like good little foot soldiers we smile our way through a multitude of Happy New Years. Until it rings in our ears and the smiles are somehow less happy and somewhat less new by the 2nd week back.
By the 3rd week back, it's almost getting to "thumping" time to still be enduring Happy NEW Years. Mainly because the person saying it to you has probably had a longer holiday than you. And frankly dealing with the Smoogle account whilst Mr Holiday was away and "uncontactable" in the wilds of Palm Beach meant that perhaps it wasn't quite the happiest of new years for you as he might think! But yes, Happy New Year, you hear yourself say through gritted teeth -- now, "about Smoogle." . . .
But I am being a bit mean spirited aren't I? I mean, there are some people who you genuinely do wish a Happy New Year to. Or even strangers in the heat of New Years Eve exuberance at the stroke of midnight. The problem is, you don't always get the opportunity to, which is really at the point of this discussion.
The opening paragraph simply takes too long to say. [[ED. It was too long to repeat, too, especially having as it did dozens and dozens of capital letters. We're frequently shiftless here.]] Try it if you don't believe me, (and don't cheat -- each word should be audible). It's a mouthful and a tongue twister. Even "Merry Christmas" is slightly easier to say.
Say you are walking down the street as I was on New Year's Eve, and someone is walking towards you. She blurts out Happy New Year -- by the time you stammer a response she has passed. It just doesn't work. It takes too much time and effort to say. And then you have to tack on a smile at the end of it, as the word "Year" doesn't really finish with the mouth in the right shape. Except open that is.
But I am not one just to heckle. So my solution is in the fine Australian tradition of abbreviation and to create a unique colloquialism: Happy New Year simply becomes HANY!!! (as in "nanny").
Try it now out loud. HANY! There you go, that was much easier wasn't it? Quicker, easier, slips off the tongue. More versatile too:
• Start with the traditional "HANY" yelled out loud at the stroke of midnight.
• Or post new year more of pleasantly surprised HANY, as in "Wow. Hi, it's been ages since we met!"
• Lets not forget the blokes -- a more guttural HANY, as in "Maaaaatee, how the hell are ya?"
• Not to be confused with the farmers short "HANY" -- "Yup, that's all I have to say before I swallow another blowie." (Actually, some linguists would say that the fly-in-mouth syndrome is the origin of many an Australian shortened word.)
• Finally, to resolve the earlier problem in particular, there is the short and neutrally toned business, "HANY, Jim -- now I've done the polite bit, let's talk about the stuff ups whilst you were on holiday."
Now I (and wife) can't take all the credit for the word "HANY." In truth, in Hungary the say "BUEK!!" as it is infinitely more palatable after a few drinks than "Boldog Uj Ev-napot Kivanok!" But, dear reader, at least in English we can claim this abbreviation as uniquely our own. As Australian as G'day. So be proud and say it loud to all who insist in saying Happy New Year to you. A simple HANY in reply and move on with your day.
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