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northerner60 wrote: »...none of her contempories did.0
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Oh, yes, I forgot, I have a good one for you all.
"One of the best" should in fact be "one of the better".
How many can say that they always get that one right?0 -
And then there's advance vs. advanced.
I hate road signs saying 'Advanced warning of road works' when they should read 'Advance warning'. Advanced means 'clever', advance means 'ahead of time'. It isn't quite that simple, but that's what it amounts to. Even TomTom sat nav gets it wrong when their menu says 'Advanced planning' (planning a route in advance of the journey).0 -
We've had so many of these language threads on The Arms and on DT. Those of us who object to careless use of language are pilloried as pedants.
More people in the media need to speak up for correct language.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
(Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)0 -
Can't believe no-one has mentioned the one that drives me insane - and that's the use of ignorant to mean rude. I can only assume that these people are shooting for insolent, but are too ignorant to get there.
And just a London thing, but I want to cry when I hear the L pronounced in Holborn.0 -
I have not read through the thread so this may have been mentioned. My own gripe is more general - i.e. the demise of the adverb. Even some very well spoken television presenters seem to omit -ly from the end of some words when they clearly should be there. The misuse of apostrophes is a source of irritation too. Although I didn't read it myself, a national paper apparently referred to John Major's "Citizen's Charter" some years ago. Some were going around wondering who the lucky person was . N.B. It wasn't me.0
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And another thing! You must borrow FROM someone, not off them, as it was never on them in the first place, and lend TO someone for the same reason.0
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Thank you for enabling this uprising. I cringe when I hear 'asseptable'. It is not acceptable to use this word - it does not exist. Also, crips are not a tasty, salty snack product sold in convenient sized bags.0
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