Keen

[nq:1]In a French newsgroup that focuses on English someone posted a question regarding the word "keen", as in "I am ... is still a common expression in the UK and if it's also used in Australia or other English speaking countries.[/nq]
I saw this as well, but it was too complicated for me to answer in decent French in the time I had available.
Yes, I use "keen" all the time. It's part of

[nq:1]In a French newsgroup that focuses on English someone posted a question regarding the word "keen", as in "I am keen to see that movie." I've never heard anyone use the word "keen" in the US, except perhaps on Leave It to Beaver.[/nq]
I use it when appropriate, but admittedly it's not a popular world in the U.S.

Dena Jo
(New York, then California, now Arizona)
(Email: Rep

[nq:1]In a French newsgroup that focuses on English someone posted a question regarding the word "keen", as in "I am ... is still a common expression in the UK and ifit's also used in Australia or other English speaking countries. Thanks[/nq]
Yes, it's used in English-speaking Canada, in all its forms.

Cheers, Sage

Dena Jo filted:
[nq:2]In a French newsgroup that focuses on English someone posted ... in the US, except perhaps on Leave It to Beaver.[/nq]
[nq:1]I use it when appropriate, but admittedly it's not a popular world in the U.S.[/nq]
I hear it with some frequency, but almost always in the negative: "I'm not keen on giving ten-year-olds access to power tools"..r

[nq:1]Dena Jo filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]I use it when appropriate, but admittedly it's not a popular world in the U.S.[/nq]
[nq:1]I hear it with some frequency, but almost always in the negative: "I'm not keen on giving ten-year-olds access to power tools"..r[/nq]
The film If came about because one of the script-writers, adrift and floundering in Hollywood, suddenly realised that he should wr

[nq:2]Dena Jo filted: I hear it with some frequency, but almost always in the negative: "I'm not keen on giving ten-year-olds access to power tools"....r[/nq]
[nq:1]The film If came about because one of the script-writers, adrift and floundering in Hollywood, suddenly realised that ... clearly derogatory in 1950s British adolescent upper-middle-class argot. (It's not derogatory in mine, by the

[nq:1]if they'd been served a ploughman's lunch they wouldn't even have noticed provided it was described as *déjeuner au , that is).[/nq]
(PostIt note to self:
Ins. whatever ploughman is in French before posting look up in Fr. dic. Back bedroom? If not, try Web)
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Ross Howard

[nq:2]In a French newsgroup that focuses on English someone posted ... in the US, except perhaps on Leave It to Beaver.[/nq]
[nq:1]I use it when appropriate, but admittedly it's not a popular world in the U.S.[/nq]
Yeah, all the peachy keen stuff is gone nowadays. But I remember the days ...

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]Yeah, all the peachy keen stuff is gone nowadays. But I remember the days[/nq]
I'm a few years younger than you, but I remember the '60s. Things could be keen and bitchen and boss and groovy.

Dena Jo, who to this day still occasionally exclaims, "Oh, my ***! It was totally bitchen!"
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[nq:1]In a French newsgroup that focuses on English someone posted a question regarding the word "keen", as in "I am keen to see that movie." I've never heard anyone use the word "keen" in the US, except perhaps on Leave It to Beaver.[/nq]
One of my dad's phrases was "Peachy keen with cream in between". I have no idea where he got it from, and Google shows nothing. I suspect some television co