THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

culpepper

I remember Tide in the 60's. Also Surf. They used to add something blue to it and talked about the 'bluey whiteness' you'd never seen before or some such slogan. There was an advert on TV with the woman standing in her kitchen looking out at her washing line full of men's white shirts, then patting the jar full of pennies sitting on her window sill with a smug expression on her face.

monnagran

twiglet98 wrote: »

On the rare occasions that we are ordering food or drinks my 1980s-born offspring say "Can I get..." rather than "Can I have..." and it drives me mad, I guess it's another infuriating Americanism.

My mother used Tide detergent when I was a child in the 1950s/1960s, presumably bought from the International Stores in the village. I wonder when Tide disappeared from British shelves?

I don't know when Tide disappeared but it was sometime after Rinso and Oxydol breathed their last.

Don't let me start on the subject of Americanisms. It's the way some verbs are "- ized" that makes me choke. Apparently houses are no longer burgled, they are burglarized. Ugh. I have great fun guessing what will come next. This room has been decoratorized? I went to school to be teacherized?

And when did 'aitch' become 'haitch'?

The mind is bogglerized.

GreyQueen

I once had an exchange of emails with the editor of the regional snoozepaper about them using an American spelling. Can't remember which one (OK, I'm a pedant but this was several years ago ). His response was that it was correctly spelled in American English, my response was that this is a regional British newspaper, and how the Americans spell certain words is nothing to do with us.

I think we agreed to disagree. :rotfl:But I still won't blog on their site, despite him asking me to.

Mind you, they let just about anyone write on newspaper websites these days, have you noticed that journalists seem to be semi- illiterate primary-school age children? What with the fourteen year olds they're putting into stab vests and sending down to Shoebox Towers to impersonate police officers, I don't know what the world's coming to, really I don't...


*** wanders off to make a cup of horlicks and buy some liniment***

Aha! A memory-flash of a 1970s (probably) laundry detergent TV ad where two wifies are in a kitchen and one of them lifts out a sparkling clean dress from the top-loading washer. And, get this, it came out IRONED AND ON A HANGER!!!

I've been after one of those washers for years....... :rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

I've come to the conclusion recently that a lot of peoples definition of correct words/language to use is "whatever they personally wish it to be" and they are sometimes deliberately trying to change them away from what they know very well is correct/normal usage.:cool:

As someone who holds to "whatever is the correct word/language IS the correct word/language and it's what everyone should use" I find it distinctly frustrating to see words/language used in such a subjective/"what they personally want" type way.

I've come to the conclusion that the best way to deal with it is "If you can't beat 'em join 'em" and I'll use the standard British words even in a context where the norm is regarded as abnormal.#shrugs

Imo a standard language (that can have new words added - with majority agreement) is a Good Thing - as the whole point of language is that we can all readily understand each other. Yep....a great fan of standard language.

I am promising myself though that the next time someone says "You SHOULD speak such and such a way to me" they won't know what hit them - verbally of course LOL.

Karmacat

As for "getting" ... did no one else every use the phrase "get them in", i.e. buy some more drinks before the pub shuts? Just me that used to drink too much in 1970 then .... my coat's over there, I'll just put it on ...

VJsmum

I hate Skedule..... I now we say skool but we don't say skedule.... I used to go mad at my class for that. Until 2 Americans joined it. I let them say it, but no-one else :p

mardatha

What does my head in (is that allowed? lol ) is excepted for accepted. And DRAWS for drawers!!! Having a knicker draw sounds like some depraved raffle for pairs of knickers
Which, I grant you, has nothing the hell to do with prepping but still..

jk0

Karmacat wrote: »

As for "getting" ... did no one else every use the phrase "get them in", i.e. buy some more drinks before the pub shuts? Just me that used to drink too much in 1970 then .... my coat's over there, I'll just put it on ...

Oh, well someone 'getting a round in', is obtaining drinks for others, which is what the barman does. If I was a pedantic barman, and someone asked if they could 'get' something or other, I might tell him he was not allowed behind the bar, and I would 'get' it for him.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

What does my head in (is that allowed? lol ) is excepted for accepted. And DRAWS for drawers!!! Having a knicker draw sounds like some depraved raffle for pairs of knickers
Which, I grant you, has nothing the hell to do with prepping but still..

The draw/ drawer thing gets on my wick, too.

Only started seeing it for the first time in the last decade and now it's all over the place. One perpetrator known to me IRL has a degree in English and a TEFL qualification!

I don't understand why draw/ drawer ever became a problem, it's not one of the trickier bits of our language.

maryb

Once you get your head round the difference between affect/effect and stationary/stationery you can't help noticing when it's wrong - but those are quite hard to remember and I know I used to get it wrong until I made a real effort to remember the difference

also it's when it should be its is very common - in fact so common, I've started getting it wrong myself because it just looks wrong!

Still a bit wobbly on despatch/dispatch