It's I'm, not am etc

[RiffRaff 10]

More annoying usages:

'issues' when you mean 'problems/difficulties'

'logistics' when you mean 'delivery/transport'

'pushback when you mean 'opposition/resistance'

'takeaways' [no, not food ones] when you mean 'conclusions/results'

 

And 'journies'....

Don't forget 'journies'.....

[Ontarian1981 10]

And stuff. to mean anything or everything else-first heard said by Paul McCartney in the sixties now used by the younger end.

 

Whale oil beef hooked

[Jim Hardie 535]

And 'journies'....

Don't forget 'journies'.....

 

Usage or spelling?

[RiffRaff 10]

Usage or spelling?

 

Yes, and yes!

Read an article in one of the weekend papers about someone's training and subsequent work experience, and it was used no less than 3 times in 2 paragraphs....

 

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Yes, and yes!

Read an article in one of the weekend papers about someone's training and subsequent work experience, and it was used no less than 3 times in 2 paragraphs....

 

(Or 'fewer'!)

[Bilge 34]

I heard a presenter on BBC Radio 5 say 'Asterix' the other day when he meant 'asterisk'. How can a BBC journalist get that wrong?

[davyboy 19]

Eggzit instead of exit.

The amercan pronunciation of harass, accent on the second a.

Edited December 12, 2017 by davyboy

[RiffRaff 10]

Eggzit instead of exit.

The amercan pronunciation of harass, accent on the second a.

 

...and the disappearance of the letter 't' in spoken words.

Listened to a radio interview recently in which the reporter was chatting to three university students - sorry, univerrseeuh stoodens - who all sounded thick as planks because of it...

or 'i-uh'.

 

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Thankfully, these don't seem to have crossed the Atlantic yet, but another two 'Americanisms' are "a ton of" and "a bunch of"...

[Jim Hardie 535]

Try and / Try to

 

"What we need to try and do is......."

 

Heard this on the radio this morning spoken by none other than the Secretary of State for Education.

[RiffRaff 10]

Try and / Try to

 

"What we need to try and do is......."

 

Heard this on the radio this morning spoken by none other than the Secretary of State for Education.

 

Shud be shott at dorn! ;-)

[jaffa1 10]

Some people are way too pedantrick when it comes to words, spellings, ect.

 

It's etc not ect.

[Ontarian1981 10]

It's etc not ect.

 

But pedantrick is OK? lol;)

[davyboy 19]

don't think there are many children who collect stamps nowadays. Less letters are posted and less stamps are used because of new technology, which has led to less Post Offices

_______less instead of fewer