freind
Irony 😉
I before e except after c, unless you're weird.
🙁
Wasn't calling you weird, by the way, that was a pun. A bad one...
Aah, I see what you mean. Very good.
You lot are funny getting het* up about this stuff
Mind you I do find "arks" pretty annoying but thankfully I only hear it when the TV strays to BBC3, whose programs appear to be primarily shaky homemade footage filmed by londoners.
anyone trying swear filter avoidance on none sweariesPeople that say "Boils my pi$$" is worse
*wonders if that'll trigger owt
I before e except after c, unless you're weird.
deign
height
inveigh
inveigle
reign
rein
sleigh
sleight
vein
weigh
weight
😉
(OK, I goodle'd all the exceptions to this rule)
i before e except after Old Macdonald had a farm.
exceptions out number the ones that follow the rule, that's why it's not taught anymore(OK, I goodle'd all the exceptions to this rule)
according to QI
Are we doing nouns as verbs yet ?
You don't text somebody, you send them a text message. If you accept text as a verb, then you can't really moan about the past tense...
I'll throw in "networking", the initial mutation that lead to that plague.
I don't hear it often thankfully, but when someone asks me to 'action' something, my eye starts twitching.
jon1973 - Member
Some people on here need to lay off the caffeine and and get more sleep.
So basickly at the end of the day you're saying that peeps [i]shouldn't[/i] wake up and smell the coffee?
One of supervisors (as in not quite my actual boss) frequently employs the phrase "it is what it is".
I have the joy of hearing "well, we are where we are" a lot at work. Pointless phrase.