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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • SYinUSASYinUSA Posts: 243
    I'm not sure what you mean by "is all," but I suspect "that's all" is probably correct. I watch very little American television or film, and when I do it's usually 10 years out of date, so my familiarity with linguistic trends is on a decade delay.

    I tell my children all the time that it is better to speak slowly and deliberately than to fill the gaps with "like" or "um" every other word. It's a constant battle.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited November 2022
    A filler word much loved by TV journalists is exactly. Why, exactly, do they use it?

    It’s not just nouns used as verbs, it can also be verbs used as nouns. ‘Ask’ is an obvious example, always prefaced by ‘too big a(n)’.

    And another, writing “To” on envelopes or parcels. If a postal worker has failed to grasp the concept of an address they’re probably in the wrong job.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A heart instead of a dot on the letter i
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    I keep seeing mention of "Liz Truss's mini-budget".
    Surely it should be "Liz Truss' mini-budget" ... or am I wrong?

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think it's optional
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited November 2022
    @Bee witched. I think most style manuals would say that if you make the second ess sound then the apostrophe tucks between the two letter esses (if you’ll excuse that word).

    Thus: Liz Truss’s budget, St James’s Park, the princess’s pea

    But if you don’t make the extra ess sound then it is as you say: both horses’ riders, two weeks’ time, my parents’ wedding.
    Rutland, England
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    That makes sense @BenCotto .... thanks for the info.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Bee, think of the Rolling Stones:
    Mick Jagger’s garden
    Keith Richards’ garden
    Brian Jones’s garden
    Rutland, England
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Rock up for arrive annoys me. There again, so much annoys me.
    Rutland, England
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    edited November 2022
    A fail instead of a failure, just as offensive as an ask!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


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