Misused phrases
- 9 December 2017 14:37336891Heard a lot of these particularly pacific instead of specific.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/most-misused-phrases-words-english-language-uk-revealed-to-be-pacific-a8098791.html - 9 December 2017 21:12336910A person online has just suggested that the St James development will end up as a damp squid.
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9 December 2017 21:46336913That's Italian cuisine for you.(Not my real name.) - 9 December 2017 22:24336914Quite right bum fluff it is important that we all get our grammar and spelling write.
- 9 December 2017 23:57336915Great. I get to post this again:
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10 December 2017 09:27336920It always puzzled me when my parents described my sister, so I thought, as not-kneed, when she clearly had a set of articulated legs.(Not my real name.) - Weird Granny Slater
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10 December 2017 09:37336921Erm, sorry to be pedantic, but shouldn't that be a 'wrongly' rather than a 'wrong' at 1:08? Though both options are acceptable, the former is preferred by better speakers, so use of the latter in this context would surely be an executable offence.
Oh, and isn't 'grammer' the old girl sitting in the corner with an ear-trumpet?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus - 10 December 2017 09:47336922I knew someone who used various spoonerisms and always denied it saying that other people were imagining it. My favourite was when she was going on holiday and tried to say "short stay car park", usually took about 5 goes to get it right.
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10 December 2017 10:44336925I knew an old lady who suffered from 'various veins'.
Meanwhile Tesco petrol pumps at Whitfield still ask drivers to 'use both sides' tempting disaster. 'Use either side' surely?Button likes this"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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10 December 2017 11:11336926My parents wore barber coats when out on the (Douglas, naturally) motorbike.* Curiously, the barber in the village preferred a white jacket akin to a bus driver's summer uniform.
* This was normally during the winter months when the car was put away. Apparently the reasoning went that it was safer to deliberately fall off a skidding bike than it was to be trapped inside a skidding car. I never followed this logic as the Rover was more than capable of mowing down everything in its path, and on occasion did.(Not my real name.)