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by: Ken Blake - Thu, 14 Mar 2024 01:18 UTC

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/vlc-hits-5-billion-downloads
"Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VideoLAN, the non-profit
organisation who develop VLC (and related tech), shared the
monumental milestone in a [natter] with Lowpass newsletter
editor Janko Roettgers."

chiefly British
: idle talk or conversation

Etymology
Verb
probably imitative

The first known use of [natter] was in 1942

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by: Ross Clark - Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:56 UTC

On 14/03/2024 2:18 p.m., Ken Blake wrote:
> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/vlc-hits-5-billion-downloads
> "Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VideoLAN, the non-profit
> organisation who develop VLC (and related tech), shared the
> monumental milestone in a [natter] with Lowpass newsletter
> editor Janko Roettgers."
>
> chiefly British
> : idle talk or conversation
>
> Etymology
> Verb
> probably imitative
>
> The first known use of [natter] was in 1942
>

OED has
natter (v) 'to chatter; to chat aimlessly, idly, or at length' (1942-)
natter (n) [as in the above quote] 'a chat; an informal talk' (1943-)

before that
natter (v) 'to grumble, complain, nag' (Sc. and Eng. regional) (1804-)
(n) 'grumbling, nagging talk' (1866-)
(g)natter (v) 'to gnaw, nibble' (1747-)

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by: Ken Blake - Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:08 UTC

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:56:01 +1300, Ross Clark wrote:

> natter (v) 'to grumble, complain, nag' (Sc. and Eng. regional) (1804-)
> (n) 'grumbling, nagging talk' (1866-)
> (g)natter (v) 'to gnaw, nibble' (1747-)

Thanks for that cite as 1942 seemed relatively recent for a simple word
that sounds like chatter or banter. It's not a word I've heard in the US.

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Subject	Author
[natter] The first known use of natter was in 1942	Ken Blake
Re: [natter] The first known use of natter was in 1942	HenHanna
Re: [natter] The first known use of natter was in 1942	Ross Clark
Re: [natter] The first known use of natter was in 1942	Ken Blake