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Anyone have strong views about the use of the singular when talking about football teams? Eg Liverpool is at home to ... (Also music bands: Led Zeppelin has a new album out.) It's an Americanism of course. Hate it.
I live at the edge of Borehamwood in a place call Well End. My kids like to call it Bell End. Not sure if that's one word or two words - bellend or bell end. hope this helps.
1. Awesome - Seeing the sun rise over Mt. Fuji on a crisp morning is ‘awesome’. Giving your order to a waitress in a restaurant and her repeating the two items back to you, is a basic part of her job spec which she doesn’t need to herald with an ‘awesome’ because she got it right!
2. ‘erbs - it’s f.....g ‘herbs’ you inbreds! You don’t hear them say they once saw ‘erbie ‘ancock in concert while in ‘onolulu, ‘awaii.
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Not sure anyone will ever agree with me on this, and not strictly grammar but - With two young kids who watch loads of programmes and videos about learning made in America, I'd be quite happy to just let the letter z be pronounced zee, zebra be pronounced zee-bra and tomato be toe-mate-oh. Feels so awkward in a bumbling apologetic English way correcting the end of every song about the alphabet.
Not sure anyone will ever agree with me on this, and not strictly grammar but - With two young kids who watch loads of programmes and videos about learning made in America, I'd be quite happy to just let the letter z be pronounced zee, zebra be pronounced zee-bra and tomato be toe-mate-oh. Feels so awkward in a bumbling apologetic English way correcting the end of every song about the alphabet.
You’ll be asking us to take a different look at Trump next!
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When an American or an Aussie refers to someone being"pissed", I expect the object of their description to be crawling in the gutter after 25 pints of Crudgingtons' "Old and Filthy" but apparently in Gobbledespeak it means "upset" or "angry". The events of Valley Forge have had a ruinous effect on world communication. I feel it's time to re-colonize.
1. Awesome - Seeing the sun rise over Mt. Fuji on a crisp morning is ‘awesome’. Giving your order to a waitress in a restaurant and her repeating the two items back to you, is a basic part of her job spec which she doesn’t need to herald with an ‘awesome’ because she got it right!
2. ‘erbs - it’s f.....g ‘herbs’ you inbreds! You don’t hear them say they once saw ‘erbie ‘ancock in concert while in ‘onolulu, ‘awaii.
Are you ‘aving a laugh me old china.Its every Londoners right to drop their aitches if they want to. I ‘avent pronounced an aitch in almost 60 years and I ain’t gonna start now.
Like Antti I used to get a bit peeved with bad spelling and grammar but these days I could care less!
A couple of years ago though, the 13 year old daughter of a friend was visiting and to paint the full picture, she had a sickly sweet high pitched voice with just a hint of a lisp and every other sentence ended with "sic!". Now as I said I'm not normally bothered by misspellings or the Americanism that has crept into the English language but for some strange reason, this new word grated with my like nails down a metal garage door and it took all my mental strength to stop myself from punching her in the face. I know, I'm not proud.
Are you ‘aving a laugh me old china.Its every Londoners right to drop their aitches if they want to. I ‘avent pronounced an aitch in almost 60 years and I ain’t gonna start now.
When an American or an Aussie refers to someone being"pissed", I expect the object of their description to be crawling in the gutter after 25 pints of Crudgingtons' "Old and Filthy" but apparently in Gobbledespeak it means "upset" or "angry". The events of Valley Forge have had a ruinous effect on world communication. I feel it's time to re-colonize.
Around this neck of the American woods the term ‘pissah’ often predicated by wicked, is reasonably common working class slang.
Are you ‘aving a laugh me old china.Its every Londoners right to drop their aitches if they want to. I ‘avent pronounced an aitch in almost 60 years and I ain’t gonna start now.
and putting an aitch where you don't need one, like harks, instead of ask.
The amount of goals conceded speaks to how poor our defence was last year.
Whatever happened to "shows" or "demonstrates".
I think "speaks to" actually goes back to 17th-century England and the phrase coined by the Quaker George Fox "speaks to thy condition", meaning something rings true about your life. For example, QPR speaks to thy condition - I've supported the Hoops since 92/93 and experienced far more long suffering pain than if I didn't follow them, but there have been fleeting moments of absolute joy along the way and of course the friendships that have formed with other Rs are ultimately what counts the most. Yes for me, QPR definitely speaks to thy condition.
The phrase jumped across the pond in the 1950s when Quaker Bayard Rustin the (black and gay) American Civil Rights leader coined the term 'speaking truth to power' in a peace pamphlet he wrote. Speaking/speaks truth to power is now a term used the world over and Americans have shortened it for everyday use to simply "speaks to".
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