This is Keep your English up to date from bbclearningenglish.com on this week's program, John Ato explains the origin, meaning and the use of the word bridezilla.
Bridezilla weddings can be stressful occasions.
You know how it is.
The closer the big day approaches, the more wound up everyone involved gets.
The bride to be throws tantrums if every small detail of the preparations isn't perfect.
The bride's father wants to take over the whole affair and run it himself without consulting the happy couple.
The bridegroom's mother losing her son to a woman who doesn't come up to her own high standards interferes at every turn.
The ever resourceful English language now has words for all three of them.
The pushy father is a dadzilla, the possessive mother a momzilla, and any obnoxious bride to be is a bridezilla.
This last was the coinage that started the Trend in the USA in the mid-1990s and it can cover the whole range of bridely imperfections from spitefulness towards the bridesmaids to wedding present greed.
It can be applied to bridegrooms too.
The American singer Katy Perry recently called her fiance, the British comedian Russell Brand a bridezilla because he was getting over excited about their forthcoming wedding.
The word was based of course on Godzilla, the name of a fearsome dinosaur like monster originally created for a Japanese film in 1954.
The original Japanese form of its name, gojira, means literally gorilla whale.
Not a very nice thing to be compared to.
So all you bridezillas, dadzillas and momzillas out there, just calm down.
That was Keep your English up to date from bbclearningenglish.com.