General Chat

Written....England v Wales Pronounced....Vee Abbreviation for...Versus Wish they would say it correctly!!! Annoys me every time I hear it! Viv

"in the draw." Beg pardon? If they mean "the thing that slides out of unit, something for storage" then its drawer, always has been! Used to work in a shop and was forever seeing notes in the staff diary saying "in the draw" "I put it in the draw". Draw is something you do with a pencil or to the curtains! Lisa

Hear the one about the chap who complained about the element in his beer? I don't know what the element but that's what he sediment.

LizLoojay, At least that's what he said he meant!

Oh Simon, you've really started something here. Afraid I'm still laughing at Geoff's response though. Every time I read it I have to giggle. Next! Jan P

I think I read somewhere that it is generally acknowledged by academics that split infinitives are now acceptable; and that its OK to start a sentence with And or But etc - living language, and all that. Another one I've thought of, which I guess is an example of modern 'dumbing down' - I used to love when Magnus Magnusson, on Mastermind, used to say 'in the event of a tie, the contestant with the fewer or fewest passes . . .' (this is, of course, necessary as there could be two or more who tie); however, John Humphrys now simply says 'with the fewest passes . . '.

Hehehehehehe This is gr8. Sorry, great. Jan P

Rosemary - it wasn't a split infinitive. Examples of an infinitive are "to write", "to challenge" etc; "to boldly go" is a split infinite, as is "to needlessly nitpick". The term "bill recently sent" may be ugly, but a split infinitive it ain't.

Hi Harold, I was being ironic and quoting from previous postings. Gwynne

Gwynneth, I would have thought "Purchased" rather than "Bought".Hal. AAAh,Now we Know.

Hi Rose, Thanks for the hugs. I am smiling, just had my lunch - and it was cooked for me hehe. Don't get me wrong, there are loads of mis-this and that, that really do get to me, especially on the television, advertising boards, official documents. The 'k' at the end of words instead of the proper 'g'. If you complain it doesn't get you anywhere - they don't understand wot ur torking abhaut. And - can you start sentence with 'and' these days? - I hit my head against enough bricks walls trying to get to grips with this ancestry research. Nah wot ah meen. Jan P

twinkle if you came to wycombe and surrounding areas you will notice that everyone says off of! it is the dialect around here..lol my sisters x husband used to say about us talking like that but its the way we are down here,lol susie

And the th to F

Its Caws we is londeners and we is sposed to talk and fink like dat............

One of my pet hates is how everyone on telly especially, but probably also in general, seems to get the words something, nothing and everything wrong when speaking them i.e they say "somethink, nothink and everythink" Why do they change the 'g' to a 'k'???? It gets me sooooo riled.

Oh what a wonderful World this would be If ev'ryone spoke just like you and like me. I have a pet hate of bad Grammar but I have to keep reminding myself that language is fluid. Some words, like sediment, drop out of use and sink out of sight into the dusty archives. Some new words are imported from other languages with or without emendation, and some new words are being created all the time. It reallt p..s me off. I want to keep the language of P.G.Wodehouse and Company.

dON'T TAKE IT SERIOUSLY IT WAS DONE AS FUN AND POINTING UP HOW DAFT AND DIFFICULT OUR LANGUAGE IS, GO ON SMILE jAN hUGS rOSE

We all make mistakes, it's human nature. Even those who think they're perfect. It's horses for courses isn't it? As long as the listener understands the question. Are we setting up a grammar, spelling and elocution class here - all volunteers must be eloquent. Flippin 'eck live and let live eh. Jan P

H.I.V.virus............Human Immuno Virus virus...why? its like saying " a London Omnibus bus also pcb board....Ie printed circuit board board also frequently used by racing drivers." thats for sure",or "for sure"

I love the rhyme Brenda,it would have been very useful years ago Rose