Misused phrases

• howard mcsweeney1

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  9 December 2017     14:37336891
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  Heard 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
• howard mcsweeney1

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  9 December 2017     21:12336910
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  A person online has just suggested that the St James development will end up as a damp squid.
• Button

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  9 December 2017     21:46336913
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  That's Italian cuisine for you.
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  9 December 2017     22:24336914
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  Quite right bum fluff it is important that we all get our grammar and spelling write.
• TheThinWhiteDuke

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  9 December 2017     23:57336915
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  Great. I get to post this again:
  
  
• Button

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  10 December 2017     09:27336920
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  It always puzzled me when my parents described my sister, so I thought, as not-kneed, when she clearly had a set of articulated legs.
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• Weird Granny Slater

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  10 December 2017     09:37336921
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  Erm, 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?
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  10 December 2017     09:47336922
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  I 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.
• Captain Haddock

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  10 December 2017     10:44336925
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  I 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?
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  10 December 2017     11:11336926
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  My 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.
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