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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Aye
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Isn't you a way of saying I? Odd that in English - just googled it:
    (So) it must be true as it's on Wiki....

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Generic you is different from the personal you.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    I think starting a sentence with "Look" may be worse. As in, I've got something important to say that you must listen to. Normally used by football pundits who actually have nothing to say.

    So, look ..... might be the future. Double the irritation  :o
    East Lancs
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...or even:
    '...So, look, the fact of the matter is...like...' and then not mention any 'fact' at all, just an opinion.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    Most definitely @steveTu
    East Lancs
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    What drives me absolutely nuts is the Americanisation of the word Schedule. So many English speakers (noticeable on TV) are now pronouncing the word as SKEDULE instead of what I was always taught at school as the correct English pronunciation SHEDULE (Schedule).

    I cant help myself everytime I hear a British person pronounce it as SKEDULE I jump in and correct them.

    They can pronounce Tomatoe any way they want but when it comes to schedule I cant help myself and have to correct them. My kids are fed up with me correcting them. What do English teachers teach in lessons these days, is it how I learnt it or is the Americanised version now the default?

    I know... of all the things in the world to get irritated about and that one word does it for me... sad isn't it

    Grrr....  >:)

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    But I take it that it's ok to pronounce school as skool? ;)
    Don't get me started on the people who pronounce Primark as Preemark. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited September 2020

    Totally agree @Kili though I manage to refrain from intervening as I do with the non conventional use of less/fewer and number/amount. Another irritating Americanism is writing anyways rather than anyway.

    Any why do people overuse myself/yourself instead of the simpler me/you? It’s an epidemic. 

    I suspect many, many teachers were not taught formal grammar and couldn’t even pronounce let alone identify synecdoche or litotes. Indeed I should think many of us learned more grammar from our French or Latin lessons than from our English ones. However I do remember learning to parse sentences and knowing what a noun clause in apposition is has served me really well in life!
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Why oh why oh why do folk pronounce spec. as spek when it’s a shortening of specification ???  😖 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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