General Chat

The phrase 'for free' never fails to annoy me. Nothing is for free, it is either free of charge or for nothing and it always jumps out at me when it is misused.

The Farm Foods adverizement has always had elderly, apparently reasonably educated, people telling us that their frozen meals are delivered for free when you know that person would never say that in reality.

The Farm Foods advert came on last night and the lady said her food had been delivered free.

I was delighted.

It seems to creep into the language, like 'should of' - which really, really annoys me.

I've even seen it in newspapers :-|

'Heavy fog' :-S :-S

Thick or dense, please...

I can cope with the grammar, but I can't cope with the letter H being pronounced Haitch.

I went back to listening to The Archers for a short time when they highlighted a narcissistic relationship.

There was a court case and one whole episode was set in the jury room where one member of the jury was supposedly an older lady who was an academic It was gripping until the academic said "We would not be sat here" when I kind of stopped believing.

I hate 'shot dead' instead of shot and died or killed.

A neighbour of ours has renamed their house and put up a very smart new sign saying 'THE YEW'S'. :-(

The house must belong to the tree.

Don't get me started!!

Laying down instead of lying, less instead of fewer, and OH's pet hate - open 7 days. He always wants to know which 7 days!! :-(

Also

"for sure," instead of certain/ly


A neighbour of ours has renamed their house and put up a very smart new sign saying 'THE YEW'S'.

must be akin to The Larches?

I can handle the grammar because I'm guilty
In how I use it at times. Probably because I'm lazy.

What really gets up my nose is someone saying
" They need closure" and the word infrastructure
these seem to be used a lot.

Like Andysmum the one that really gets me grinding my teeth and clenching my fists is less instead of fewer. I also hate "bored of". At school we were always taught to say "bored with". "Iconic" is another one regularly overused; and don't get me going on the subject of people with apostrophe-itis!

Annx "The Yew's" If you speak to them maybe ask "what? or where? As in the yew is......".

...and answering every question with "so"

Apparently, grammer & spilling are regaining there wrightful plaice in some secondary skools.

So, their you have it! :-D :-D

DERMOT you spelled your first word correctry

I am with Bob wit 'so' :-| :-| :-| and yeh yeh yeh who do they think they are the B****Y Beatles :-|

very unique

.......... something is either unique or not.

he got off of the bus


A pronunciation I sometimes hear from reporters on the radio and TV here is "sowthern" .................

I know south is pronounced "sowth", but I always though it was "suthern"

Gotten...…...grr :-|

Sylvia, here in Oz, or at least in Western Oz, many TV reports pronounce words ending in 'er' as though they end with an a.

Likewise, they pronounce words such as grown, known as growen and knowen :-S :-S

Reminds me of the time I said 'South - ampton' in front of my mother (I was in my 40's).
She 'corrected' me, it was, apparently, 'South-hampton' .
I pointed out it only had one 'h', so was either South-ampton, or 'Sout-hampton'
Okay, she grew up there, but I lived there for a few years, and knew how locals pronounced it!

Thank goodness she never heard me say 'Pee-oorts-muff' (Portsmouth) :-D :-D :-D

I used to enjoy hearing my neighbour tell her children to talk proply.