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I often see people typing brought when they mean bought. It seems to be a southern thing.
And noone, meaning no one. Odd...
And noone
Beggars belief
It’s full on 100% ‘Merican and hateful.
"Ill gotten gains"
"He'd gotten away with it again.."
"I've been practicing and gotten quite good"
"What's gotten into you lately?"
"I'm not touchy feely; I've never gotten used to being hugged"
"he deserves more than he's gotten"
"How he'd gotten here first, he wondered?"
Yep; those Americans, ruining our language...
^this.
I often see people typing brought when they mean bought. It seems to be a southern thing.
Carn't was a thing for a while as well.
Go-to. As in ‘but my go-to would be a 4% ish American style Pale Ale’. What’s wrong with FAVOURITE ffs? 🤬
There's some Americanisms that are odd. In back of is clearly the opposite of In front of...but still
Also when giving directions they often "make the" rather than "go around" So; "Go left, then around the town square, and next right". Becomes, "Go left, make the square, next right"...It's very odd.
Go-to. As in ‘but my go-to would be a 4% ish American style Pale Ale’. What’s wrong with FAVOURITE ffs? 🤬
The local pub doesn't serve White Lightning which is my favourite drink, so my 'go-to' drink in that pub is Special Brew...
(Just saying)
Oh yeah. 'Just saying'
😂
You could make a whole thread on the things that Mary-Anne Hobbs says on 6 Music, such as 'I see you', and 'the Rolling Stones made this', instead of, 'this is by the Rolling Stones', but one I notice a lot is when she, and many others say something like, 'Electric Monkeypotato are based out of Swindon'....
So where are they based if it's out of Swindon then? 🤔
Shaun
You’re being a bit sheepish there – can you elaborate?
Underrated.
RM.
Go-to. As in ‘but my go-to would be a 4% ish American style Pale Ale’. What’s wrong with FAVOURITE ffs?
"My favorite session beer is Heart & Soul but in the absence of that specific brew my go to would be a 4% ish American style Pale Ale"
I've always seen it used (and used it) to describe a broader category of a things wheras favorite is a specific thing within the category.
'I'm not going to lie....'
So you feel the need to reassure me the following statement is truthful? Surely that should be the default position of any reasonable person but by prefacing your statement with this, you imply it will in fact be a departure from your normal deceitful stance. I think you're a lier. 🙂
'Regroup' (adjective) esp. in the context of an individual sportsperson talking about recovering/re-assessing their position following a defeat, normally a tennis player. One person isn't a group! You can't regroup!
'Steed', 'pride and joy' when used to describe bikes. Shudders.
Oh, and 'for xyz duties' too. I think a sentence combining all three could kill me.
Seeing a typed piece of work, where the full stops at the end of sentences, are preceded by a space. In fact, this is not solely attributed to full stops . Sometimes , it even happens with other punctuation marks !
Rant
what’s the objection to use of “onboarding” ?
i) The process of taking someone on board is called "boarding". Once they have boarded, they are on board.
ii) I presume you're not on a ship. aircraft or other vessel.
iii) Do you use the same construct for other activities in your life? After in-cupboarding your shopping, do you on-sofa yourself for a relaxing evening? (If you do, my apologies; we can go our separate ways and pretend this conversation never happened.)
iv) There's a perfectly good word for the process to which you refer - you used it yourself: Induction
Pan fried.
What else would you use for frying - an old boot, a galvanised bucket?
Possibly a shovel but impractical unless over a bonfire outside.
Saying under-estimate when
over-estimate is correct.
Anyone referring to bants should be hanged, drawn and quartered - as an example to others.
'There's a front page?'
🙂
Pan fried.
As opposed to shallow fried or deep fried. Three different methods of cooking.
Also see ‘Dude’ – usually uttered by some tubby middle aged man from Barnsley y’know rather than a 20’s something Californian surfer god…
This is very true. Encouragingly though it appears to be rarely used these days on here compared to a few years back.
Maybe Trump's presidency reduced the appeal of sounding American?
+1 on "going forward"
How on earth was “learnings” allowed to infiltrate every day speech?
tillydog
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what’s the objection to use of “onboarding” ?i) The process of taking someone on board is called “boarding”. Once they have boarded, they are on board.
ii) I presume you’re not on a ship. aircraft or other vessel.
iii) Do you use the same construct for other activities in your life? After in-cupboarding your shopping, do you on-sofa yourself for a relaxing evening? (If you do, my apologies; we can go our separate ways and pretend this conversation never happened.)
iv) There’s a perfectly good word for the process to which you refer – you used it yourself: Induction
(i) and (ii) it's a neologism not a corruption, onboard is a different word. The etymology is vaguely interesting and boils down to coming from "taking something on board" (i.e. learning a thing) not "coming onto [a vessel]"
(iii) More than one linguistic construction exists in English. I ride my bike but I don't walk my shoes. So what?
(iv) Induction is also a different word, commonly an element of onboarding for employees, but not all of it, and there's induction stuff that isn't relevant for non employees. Everyone needs to know where the fire exits are, the IT security policies and be issued with user credentials, only employees need to know about the pension scheme and the policy on carried over annual leave. I've worked somewhere where the agency temps weren't shown where the fire exits were because that was part of the staff induction. You can also onboard customers but wouldn't expect to be doing an induction. It's not a synonym.
My two nieces (7 and 8) have just started using the word "literally".
They literally use it all the time to describe literally anything they've just done.
Apparently, I'm not allowed to kill them for it. Disappointing although they did say that the Christmas presents I got them were literally the best ones of the year.
‘Steed’, ‘pride and joy’ when used to describe bikes. Shudders.Oh, and ‘for xyz duties’ too. I think a sentence combining all three could kill me.
@BadlyWiredDog - that's a shame because having literally just got back from visiting my nieces, I was about to choose a steed from my quiver - probably the one for flatter road duties - and head out on it. It's my pride and joy.
Utilize
Gotton
Thank you so much
(Yes, I do hate America...)
Edit: 'thank you so much' is acceptable if said to the person who has just saved your life.
Global pandemic, surely just pandemic suffices!
Pan fried.
As opposed to shallow fried or deep fried. Three different methods of cooking.
What's the difference between shallow fried and pan fried?
What else would you use for frying – an old boot, a galvanised bucket?
My dad told me he once fried an egg on a tank (you know, the armoured bang bang type) in Jordan.
Global pandemic, surely just pandemic suffices!
I just checked this out of curiosity, apparently not:
occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population (Merriam-Webster, also Oxford)
a disease that exists in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals or plants (Cambridge)
In either case, not necessarily global.
People who "pull the trigger" on a bike or component.
People who say 'dropping' when referring to the broadcast of a TV show.
Nouns changed to verbs - eg gift.
Verbs changed to nouns - eg edit
Being asked if I want milk in my americano.
5 pages in and so far no mention of the very worst one.
LEAST WORST
How and why did anyone think this was an improvement on least bad?
#endofthread
I had a nice veggie sausage the other day.
Well, it was the least wurst option.
Gammon - it's a lovely cured pork meat not a load of middle-aged men who've literally gotten 110% furious about the yoof speaking differently to what they do.
I'm late to the party, but this:
Colourway. Winds me up no end!
I've been known to avoid buying products from brands who insist on on plastering "colorway" all over their press release bumpf. Stop it now.
Jimmy Carr Dark Material on Netflix has a good bash at career ending jokes that would likely trigger a STW ban if on the forum.
'Brought' instead of 'bought' as the past tense of 'buy'. Get in the ****ing sea you ****ing cretins.
Curb instead of Kerb - seen frequently in a couple of recent threads.
Oh, and Been instead of Being.
Theres someone at work who does the latter quite often, sometimes in emails that go to "all@company.com", and he's otherwise a very very clever bloke. But that really undermines his credibility in my view.
Please, just get it right. It's not hard.
Showcase instead of present.
One of the only...
That’s a perfectly appropriate word. It’s just not “segway,” it’s segue.
Thankyou. I was just having a little fizz over that... 🙂
"For Free".
For goodness sakes, that is complete twaddle. It is either "Free of charge" (usually shortened to "free") or "for nothing".
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that is complete twaddle
I think we're well into the realms of "grammar pedants only" territory here aren't we? I mean I get that strictly speaking free isn't a noun, so you can't have a preposition before it, but everyone understands what it means, it's hardly lifetime banning territory is it?
Reoccurring
Is a word. Recur means happen again at a set time period, reoccurring is the same thing but without the time interval, normally.
Edit: ah, you've deleted it.
What’s the difference between shallow fried and pan fried?
Shallow frying uses more oil so the food is partially submerged. Half way between pan frying and deep frying.
Loose instead of lose
"I think we’re well into the realms of “grammar pedants only” territory here aren’t we? I mean I get that strictly speaking free isn’t a noun, so you can’t have a preposition before it, but everyone understands what it means, it’s hardly lifetime banning territory is it?"
My point exacatly. It is wrong!! With a capital WR. The fact that dimwits who make telly ads think it is correct doesn't make it better. The fact that people may understand it doens't make it correct either.