Words most people use incorrectly
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I must have this wrong but I can't figure out why commentators on boring football matches inveriably describe them as turgid when flaccid should be used to my mind.0
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arks and not ask4
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Have not heard the last one for a while!Alwaysneil said:many of these will feature above, for sure.
Get real.
OMG.
Nuff said.
To be fair
To be honest
You have got to be kidding me
U make me so horny Hun xxx1 -
Innit.i_b_b_o_r_g said:arks and not ask
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Star.
As used by various publications to describe people I've never heard of who once appeared on some reality show I've never heard of.
Or as used to describe any of Charlton's players.....0 -
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People that say "texts is" because they're incapable of saying the plural of text message without chucking an is on the end.0
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You can use either I believe.Chizz said:
"Disassociated".Alwaysneil said:Other examples?
Disassociated v unassociated
Disappoint v unappoint
distend v untend
I've run out, the two prefixes are intended for different things.
It's not a word. It's dissociated.0 -
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People being interviewed, normally research scientists, who start the answer to every question with the word 'So'.0
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You can, indeed. But only one of them is correct.Alwaysneil said:
You can use either I believe.Chizz said:
"Disassociated".Alwaysneil said:Other examples?
Disassociated v unassociated
Disappoint v unappoint
distend v untend
I've run out, the two prefixes are intended for different things.
It's not a word. It's dissociated.
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Many years ago Ed Byrne did a great stand-up bit where he dismantles that song line by line and explains how each could be made into an ironic statement.MillwallFan said:Ironic.
It was even used incorrectly in an advert, Citroen I think, about dancing robots, the man in the Citroen factory said "and with delicious irony, this ones doing the robot"
A robot dancing the robot is not ironic.
That bint who's name I can't spell wrote a whole song about irony in the 90's and most of what she calls ironic in the lyrics aren't ironic at all. I suppose that's ironic in itself.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ed+byrne+ironic
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Resign and re-sign. People talked about us resigning Roger Johnson in January and it was very misleading1
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Hmmm, doubting myself I resorted to looking them up, they both appear in OED and Cambridge dictionaries.Chizz said:
You can, indeed. But only one of them is correct.Alwaysneil said:
You can use either I believe.Chizz said:
"Disassociated".Alwaysneil said:Other examples?
Disassociated v unassociated
Disappoint v unappoint
distend v untend
I've run out, the two prefixes are intended for different things.
It's not a word. It's dissociated.
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I come from a very working class family and we always called the evening meal dinner. To us it was northerners who called it tea.AddicksAddict said:
As a youngster living in a good working class area, we had three meals a day, breakfast, dinner and tea. It was only when I was elevated above the status of my birth by going to a grammar school that I learnt about lunch.letthegoodtimesroll said:'Dinner' when referring to lunch. Where were these people dragged up ?
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Nice one mate. Will have a watchrandy andy said:
Many years ago Ed Byrne did a great stand-up bit where he dismantles that song line by line and explains how each could be made into an ironic statement.MillwallFan said:Ironic.
It was even used incorrectly in an advert, Citroen I think, about dancing robots, the man in the Citroen factory said "and with delicious irony, this ones doing the robot"
A robot dancing the robot is not ironic.
That bint who's name I can't spell wrote a whole song about irony in the 90's and most of what she calls ironic in the lyrics aren't ironic at all. I suppose that's ironic in itself.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ed+byrne+ironic
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Pacific for specific.
Click for clique.0 -
My kids being taught to pronounce the letter aitch to sound like haitch, also being taught chimley instead of chimney.
I informed them on both accounts their teacher is wrong0 -
"Undisclosed" instead "a pittance".3
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I've heard this crap from my brothers' kids. When I was telling them how to spell a word I used the normal letters then they insisted the teacher makes them say the letters phonetically e.g. aah, ber, ker, der, eh, fff, guh etc. What a load of shit.Bigbadbozman said:My kids being taught to pronounce the letter aitch to sound like haitch, also being taught chimley instead of chimney.
I informed them on both accounts their teacher is wrong0 - Sponsored links:
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Pacific for specific.
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I used to accidentally use "me" sometimes but as it makes my daughter laugh I do it all the time now.WeWonTheSecondHalf said:When people use 'me mates' instead of 'my mates'. Excuse me while I find a revolver.
The other day she said to me "daddy, why do you say me instead of my. Is it because you're from the olden days?"1 -
DaveMehmet said:
I used to accidentally use "me" sometimes but as it makes my daughter laugh I do it all the time now.WeWonTheSecondHalf said:When people use 'me mates' instead of 'my mates'. Excuse me while I find a revolver.
The other day she said to me "daddy, why do you say me instead of my. Is it because you're a Scouser?"0 -
This literally makes my blood boil.ElfsborgAddick said:Aint done nothing.
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Mispronounced letters....
Haitch
Jai
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That.
"It was Jimmy 85thatwho pointed out this grammatical error."0 -
You can't even spell fish.Fiiish said:
I've heard this crap from my brothers' kids. When I was telling them how to spell a word I used the normal letters then they insisted the teacher makes them say the letters phonetically e.g. aah, ber, ker, der, eh, fff, guh etc. What a load of shit.Bigbadbozman said:My kids being taught to pronounce the letter aitch to sound like haitch, also being taught chimley instead of chimney.
I informed them on both accounts their teacher is wrong1
