Is 'tog a word anywhere other than here?

[bbb]

Tog is used alot on Modelling websites as an affectionate name for photographers. If they think the photographer is no good they refer to them as BWAC (Bloke with a Camera). Often models insinuate that BAWCs are just perverts using the camera as a means to look at young ladies.

 

[Kerioak]

Seeing as no one seems to really like the term does this mean that we will be seeing a lot less of it in future (ever hopeful)

 

[dazzajl]

Someone once thought I had said "dogging"

Do you mean hoped?

 

[petemc]

Seeing as no one seems to really like the term does this mean that we will be seeing a lot less of it in future (ever hopeful)

I can't imagine that we will. It seems to have become quite popular in the past year and its out there now.

 

[Kerioak]

If photographers themselves show their (our) distaste for it and never use it, it might die away though lack of use. Maybe the mods could add it to the text-speak so that it is automatically changed

 

[petemc]

Change togging to dogging That'll stop people using it.

 

[radiantvision]

I must say that I have never heard about it before joining too. And I don't like it, it sounds painfully amateurish and silly

 

[Kerioak]

I had never heard of dogging before I came here - if anyone had mentioned it I would automatically have assumed they were taking their dogs out. See how your vocabulary increases when you join a photography forum :shrug:

 

[AndyB]

If someone calls you a tog do your pictures suddenly look less professional?

It's just a name - whats all the fuss. You can call me a phoger if you like - it makes no difference to what I do or the way I do it.

And of course if someone is looking to pay a tog to do a shoot then I am hapy to be a tog

 

[Gadgetman]

It's just a name - whats all the fuss. You can call me a phoger if you like

Oi, Andy......you phoger!

 

[petemc]

It's just a name - whats all the fuss.

Said the white man... I know, not in the same league. Just making a point about words n all

 

[Kerioak]

I think it is more about speaking English, I know languages evolve but our seems to be contracting. Often listening to people speaking on the television I wonder what language they are speaking as it sounds nothing (no'tin) like my mother tongue.

 

[Joe T]

I had a geography teacher called TOG (Teacher of Geography) - only sixth-formers were allowed to call him it to his face - he was a legend! Long Live TOG! (retired now though )

 

[Marc]

I just look on it as a nickname. Nothing wrong with that, they have been around for centuries and I don't think they reflect on the English language per se. How many people here's user names are borne out of nicknames? :shrug:

 

[Daysleeper40]

On the subject of the English language changing - I agree with Stephen Fry who said:

"It is not a case of loving the language so much you want to preserve every hair on its lovely little head. The fun comes from watching it change and working out how"

I don't mind the word tog or togging but would only use them in certain circumstances - for instance I wouldn't say a wedding photographer on their way to the wedding was going out "togging"... but if the same wedding photographer was out on a weekend taking pictures for fun then I would.

 

[ekimeno]

When I first joined this forum I thought that togging was a universally accepted word and casually slipped it in to a conversation at work: "Yeah, I spent Saturday morning togging on Hampstead Heath"..... the laughs I received.... thanks guys! :bonk:

 

[inaneredstripe]

tog. measure of insulation in quilts isnt it?

 

[inaneredstripe]

When I first joined this forum I thought that togging was a universally accepted word and casually slipped it in to a conversation at work: "Yeah, I spent Saturday morning togging on Hampstead Heath"..... the laughs I received.... thanks guys! :bonk:

maybe they misheard the word"togging".