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Phrases that like really bug us all, basically
The Telegraph ^
| 5/29/2007
| Johanna Leggatt
Posted on 05/29/2007 2:17:17 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: Red Boots
I didn’t know that! It’s one of my favorite cheeses and I always call it “lyster” for no reason at all. The cheese ladies never correct me at the store, lol!
Obviously, I have not been ‘cross the pond (yet) in my provincial little life.
501
posted on
05/29/2007 9:33:05 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: LucyJo
Maybe some efforts to not end a sentence with a preposition are worse! LOL.Which is the worse sin, ending a sentence with a preposition or splitting an infinitive?
To: Red Boots
I sure didn’t know *that,* either. Thought it was the same as Purgatory, the ski area - and my former home forum. Wow, I’ll have to remember that.
Kinda like Refugio and Mexia, here in TX. ReFURY-oh and Muh-HAY-uh. That’s funny about “Shy Anne,” too. I think there’s a FReeper named that.
Cheney is hard enough to explain - I wonder if Cheney Chick has to tell her Brit friends her nick and how she says it. So many say “Sheeney.”
503
posted on
05/29/2007 9:39:39 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: bruinbirdman
504
posted on
05/29/2007 9:40:45 PM PDT
by
racing fan
(Go Team Israel!)
To: Petronski
Oooohh, good one! I commit that atrocity all the time.
505
posted on
05/29/2007 9:41:58 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Yikes, I’m picturing Joan Rivers doing Queen Elizabeth “fuh fuhf uhhf fuh.” Or John Cleese doing the real thing with real words. Whilst whistling.
506
posted on
05/29/2007 9:45:11 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: bruinbirdman
Why is that that things that go by truck are called shipments and things that go by boat called cargo? That always confuses me.
507
posted on
05/29/2007 9:47:50 PM PDT
by
spotbust1
(Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
To: AndyJackson
Oh, like all the endin’ “g’s” I have in my consonant account waitin’ for me to retire and cash ‘em in.
508
posted on
05/29/2007 9:48:14 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: Man50D
Why do the British say “Knocked someone up” when they really just woke them up by arriving at their house?
509
posted on
05/29/2007 9:50:11 PM PDT
by
spotbust1
(Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
To: spotbust1
Like driveways and parkways.
510
posted on
05/29/2007 9:51:05 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: Maria S
I hate it when people end a sentence with a preposition.
Where is it at?
511
posted on
05/29/2007 9:51:48 PM PDT
by
spotbust1
(Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
To: spotbust1
They “fall preggers” over there, too.
512
posted on
05/29/2007 9:51:58 PM PDT
by
Rte66
To: BykrBayb
>> Grammar police are in high demand on this thread. Come quick!
I wish I could, but time won't permit it. Tell you what, though, ping as many questions to me as you wish and I'll produce ponderous pontifical pronouncements when I return. Tomorrow evening, jes prolly.
513
posted on
05/29/2007 9:56:30 PM PDT
by
T'wit
(Confidence in science rests on belief in God's order and will not long survive loss of belief.)
To: don-o
Uh, you know what uh really bothers me?
When, uh, people say uh, all the uh time.
I transcribe medical reports from home and it amazes me how many well educated physicians use “uh” almost every other word. I once typed out the report just as it was dictated and in a 6 line report, there were 25 “uh’s”.
514
posted on
05/29/2007 9:57:59 PM PDT
by
spotbust1
(Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
To: Rte66
Like driveways and parkways. I never realized that one.
515
posted on
05/29/2007 9:59:00 PM PDT
by
spotbust1
(Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
To: racing fan
Why do people use “all important”? Which all is it important to?
516
posted on
05/29/2007 10:09:08 PM PDT
by
spotbust1
(Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
“This sort of thing is a stock slow news day filler item.”
Good one - I can’t stand that phrase either! ;)
517
posted on
05/29/2007 10:17:22 PM PDT
by
geopyg
(Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
To: bruinbirdman
518
posted on
05/29/2007 10:19:35 PM PDT
by
ken21
(tv: 1. sells products. 2. indoctrinates viewers into socialism.)
To: don-o
Supposably your just to good in grammer - irregardless that you can still understand there words.
(My two pet peeves are in there, plus a few of you’res)!
519
posted on
05/29/2007 10:23:44 PM PDT
by
geopyg
(Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
Where you at?--Anywhere you aren't, you uneducated schmuck!!!
all's you gotta do...is speak better english, moron.
520
posted on
05/29/2007 10:27:42 PM PDT
by
Captainpaintball
(immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation)
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