Some single women have Bridget Jones. Others have Jane Austen. Increasingly, after spending a lot of time in big knickers, my female friends and I are falling into the latter faction. Just last week, one of them sent me a meme from Pride & Prejudice – the 2005 film (obviously) starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet and Matthew Macfadyen as Mr Darcy. “You have bewitched me, body and soul,” says Macfadyen, who, in the role of Darcy, has transformed from a misanthropic f***boy into a full-blown lovestruck heartthrob. “And I love, I love, I love you,” he continues. “And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”
Over the top of the reel, a quote read: “It’s always ‘wyd’ and never ‘yhbmbasaililily’.” To those unfamiliar with textspeak, the former can be translated to, “what you doing?” and the latter is an acronym for the aforementioned Darcy quote that I and literally every other single woman I know would love to hear. If for nothing else than to diversify a lexical canon that is mostly comprised of phrases such as: “wuu2”, “wanna hang out 2nyt?”, and “I’m not looking for anything serious.”
