And Darryl Summers on that stoopid dancing show. "The next couple through to next week's show is ..." - that's OK but then - "the next two who'll be with us again next week is ..."
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And Darryl Summers on that stoopid dancing show. "The next couple through to next week's show is ..." - that's OK but then - "the next two who'll be with us again next week is ..."
Gorn go'n git ya gro'sir's, I'll sit 'ere. :2tsup:
:2tsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
That's the other misuse of singular and plural that I couldn't remember, which is more prevalent than my examples.
Or in the written language, the number of people that don't know the difference between then and than, there and their and affect and effect.
And don't get me started on apostrophes!!!! The local shop has lollie's and cashew's on special!!!
Your not wrong. :D
> people that don't know the difference between there and their
> The local shop has lollie's and cashew's on special!!!
They're there in Their shop with Condiments.:D:D:D:doh:
...or that and who:wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Shed
youse was played bad.
Or a particularly english one
"I were going to do it"
"was you?"
Hey, and leave punctuation and pelzing out of it
Can we just stick with grammar.
( wos gooin to say "stay wiv gramma") (Manchester)
but it dint seem so poetic like.(Nottinghamese)
and don't even ask me to do it in Cumbrian
Astrid
or other charming words like "Bistraunt" I noted it on a big sign outside a pub in Newcastle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Shed
My 13 yr old son uses "my bad" all the time. (to get back to what started this thread)
I just have to ignore it. It's not worth the energy to hassle him about it.
Remember a Holden T shrt some years ago? "When your hot your hot.":oo:
How about the cretin who advertises " A small amount of houses in this price range":o
Them things, those things.:((
Perogative?:?
Vunerable?:((
Pricipal,principle?:doh::doh:Remember the principal is your pal.
Incident, incidence, and (shudder) incidences.:((
Numerous numbers of.....:gaah:
Will this list never end?:?
Am I tethered to a different planet?:D
Advise - AdviceQuote:
Originally Posted by artme
Choose - Chose
Loose - Lose
And so on.....
Then there's pleonasms, such as 'free gift' or 'I know from past experience'
Thank you outbackrr for adding a new word to my vocabulary, must confess I had to look up what a pleonasm is.
There is an interesting list of pleonasms here.
When Holden brought out the Statesman;
or was it the Brougham;
they had a Mandatory Option:?
I believe it was for a Limited Slip Differential
Also is it pronounced:-
MANdatory
or
MandaTORY
Fee Fie Foe Fum
Thee shall have thy way with ye wench
thoust
joust
a jest
begone
I hate "return home" :~
You go home or you went home, you can return to where you came from, or return a book, or re-turn a bit of wood that jumped off the lathe (after you return it to where it came from)
Return home is weird.... :rolleyes:
Bloody northerners no idea how to speak proper English...:roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by astrid
HH.
And then there are the yanks who invent words on the fly....:U
winningest :o
HH.
I know language is a living, moving, thing. It's an argument I've used myself. However the mangling of language by Americans stems, not from a robust need to find new expression as was the case with Shakespeare and often from slang, but from a total lack of knowledge and understanding. Latest example at which I cringed
The verb --"To Opine" Example "The craftsman opined it was not right."
Mind you they cannot cope with past participles
"He dove into the water."
Jerry
Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Regarding local acents and grammar, things get a bit confusing.
Lots of local english speach still has grammar grounded in Saxon, Celtic
or whatever.
This is a beatiful mix that is sadly disappearing.
I have noticed that with the british population being more migratory than30 years ago, many have lost their regional accents and the language is morphing
(excuse contraction, i cant spell metamorphisize) into a rather dull and ugly essex/ southern hash.
Local dialects are an important part of a culture and should be presered without assistance from the "Proper english/grammar police"
This is probably happening all over the world, another loss to globalisation.
Astrid:no:
How's your grammar??
Resting in piece I hope they both passed away years ago.!
that took me a few minits to work out:U
For some reason, my spell checker is a bit irratic, hows yours.
Astrid
On the matter of correct pronunciation of English, there is one area that does annoy me. That is the mispronunciation of the "a" and"o" in certain words.
The "a" should often be pronounced as an "o" as in "what" and that old English word "tw*t". In the working class south London area I came from the word was in common use and was definitely "t* ot "
The other, and more common mis pronunciation is the "o". This in many cases in English should be given a "u" sound as in "London". But now a "cunjurer" has become a "conjurer", and we "covet" our neighbours goods, instead of "cuveting" them. Just watch how often TV announcers, and worse still TV personalities, mangle the language. I know that in the old days (ah, the good old days, he says sadly, sobbing quietly into his beer) the English BBC had a department where announcers could go to get correct pronunciations of words, places and names. "Don't need it now. We're more educated, like. If the wogs don't like the way we say their names, well tough."
Jerry
Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Then we can move to NZ and start talking about "i" and "e":D
BBC English is invented and bears no relation to upperclass english.
One shouldn't compare accents with grammer and who invented correct grammer anyway, Tis but a standardization.
English derives from germanic Saxon and roman French, the gramatical structure of which are quite different.
Its the same with pelzing, Damn Dr Johnson
Was used to be pronounced Wass but the language changed. As Johnson wass a native of Litchfield, and area with strong Saxon ties even today, he probably said Wass himself which is possibly why he wrote it that way.
His Lexicon wass only intended as a collection of words not a spelling or pronunciation bible.
Astrid
This thread is appearing to be developing into pseudo nazi spelling thread.
Thanks Bazza,
My point exactly
Astrid
They are alive and kicking in England Astrid believe me.Quote:
Originally Posted by astrid
I haven't heard many Yorkshiremen with that type of accent in fact I've never met one. Never met a geordie, a manc or a scouser with one either. I think you've been watching too many movies Astrid where this accent certainly does exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by astrid
HH.
just got this and thought to help get back on track
Australianya
These were results for an Ozwords comp where entrants were asked to take an Australian word, alter it by only one letter, and supply a new and witty definition. You need to be an Aussie to understand!!!???
billabonk: to make passionate love beside a waterhole
bludgie: a partner who doesn't work but is kept as a pet.
dodgeridoo: a fake indigenous artefact.
fair drinkum: good quality Aussie wine.
flatypus: a cat which has been run over by a vehicle.
shagman: an unemployed male roaming the Australian bush in search of sexual activity.
yabble: the unintelligible language of Australian freshwater crustaceans.
bushwanker: a pretentious drongo who reckons he's above average when it comes to handling himself in the scrub.
shornbag: a particularly attractive naked sheep.
technicolour lawn: the front yard after a rave party.<o:p></o:p>
I don't know if its "their bad" or not (:D) but I hate it when I absent mindedly (probably my own invented word. Better own up now.) start reading an article in an interior design magazine (of ant brand, it seems)and it goes "Blah blah blah blah blah, she enthused" :gaah:
Then I remember that no one buys these things for the articles anyway. I only like looking at the pictures.:cool:
Hello happy hammer,
Was born in Notts,
Lived in St Albans 1987-88
moved to Uffington wiltshire 88-89
Lived in stistead Nr Colchester 93-95
lived Salsbury wiltshire 97-99
Family in Notts and Cumbria
Noticed a marked difference in speach in wiltshire between 89 and 99
also in visiting Notts and Cumbria( Maryport) with rellies,
The younger ones dont have the broad acsent any more.
I mean who says Mam and Da
Ha way in
lile Lass
sorry but its dying,
Astrid
Not surprised you heard
in the towns you lived in.Quote:
Originally Posted by astrid
I lived in England most of my life and travelled all over and that is not my experience. I think you'll find immigration is the biggest impact on English dialects not a proliferation of the southern accent elsewhere.
HH.
24/7
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