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Post by althea on Mar 30, 2024 13:00:59 GMT
I don't like the fact that many young people in the south talk like people from Jamaica. I suppose it's a fad.
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Post by scalliwaggle on Apr 15, 2024 12:59:09 GMT
Mex ya wunner wot dey fink wiv, dunnit?
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Post by althea on Apr 17, 2024 10:32:22 GMT
Yea Man.
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Post by althea on Sept 30, 2024 15:07:27 GMT
A few muddled expressions I saw on the 'net lately.
Don't get your nipples in a twist.
Don't give up the goat.
For all intensive porpoises.
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Post by waiting4atickle on Oct 1, 2024 21:51:54 GMT
Seems to me you're looking for a scrapegoat.
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Post by caliban on Nov 20, 2024 9:23:00 GMT
I've noticed that just about everyone on TV, radio and podcasts lately are pronouncing "either" and "neither" as "eether" and "neether"... and don't get me started on people saying "skedule".
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Post by skylark on Nov 24, 2024 21:27:50 GMT
This isn’t misuse as such, but why does nobody give anything away these days?
A present to someone these days is ‘gifted’, a word I would reserve for someone with an exceptional talent.
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Post by caliban on Nov 25, 2024 7:47:05 GMT
And nothing is collected, or even cobbled together anymore, it has to be 'curated'.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 25, 2024 9:57:27 GMT
Enormity instead of enormous.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 25, 2024 13:58:59 GMT
Beautiful/Beautifully
Nice/Nicely
She's done that beautiful
She's done that nice
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Post by caliban on Nov 26, 2024 9:27:11 GMT
"There are less customers here today... "
How many times do you hear people say "less" when they mean "fewer"?
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Post by skylark on Nov 26, 2024 17:47:23 GMT
Beautiful/Beautifully Nice/Nicely She's done that beautiful She's done that nice I can accept that people don’t always use English correctly in conversation. Broadcasters are a different matter, and the BBC seems to be using ‘‘gifted’ instead of ‘given’. Also, the expression ‘for free’ is now widely used. Surely something is either ‘free’ or ‘for nothing’? |
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Post by waiting4atickle on Dec 1, 2024 0:19:37 GMT
I heard a Radio 4 listener complaining about the amount of time afforded on Last Word to a "flamingo dancer".
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Post by caliban on Dec 1, 2024 8:04:44 GMT
When did 'nuclear' become 'nucular'?
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