Folk used to say to me at work "did you cut your hair?". I would reply, correctly," no,a hairdresser did". I can't stand,ink on the end of something, nothing, couldn't of. Grown woman saying something gives them the "ick". They don't appear to actually know what it means. Folk who insist on saying they "hoover", instead of vacuuming. That one really gets my goat!
Returning to hoover, an English teacher friend of mine made me smile when she told me of a student who had written about “Hamlet’s ghost hoovering in the background”.
Thank God,Busy-Lizzie, I have now taken to saying "I SHARK my floors". My neighbour keeps saying she's just going to hoover, like it's a destination, just going to the shops for instance! I suppose it's how you are brought up. I cannot bare names being shortened. unless you ask for it. Like Edward to Ted or Eddy. Too familiar and the height of rudeness. Some of you know my actual name,late parents gave it to me because it cannot be shortened and it has the initials of both their Christian names. I lot of folk over the years have put extra letters on it... telling me that is how it is MEANT to be spelt. Got so sick of this, one Christmas I added these same letters onto every single name in in-laws family. They never did it again! I didn't type INK on my previous post, I typed ICK, didn't notice the phone had changed it. Just read through, and my phone has changed LOTS of words. Haha Ben, I have actually just past week told someone off for saying Vaseline instead of petroleum Jelly .
“Did you cut your hair” reminds me of a clip on the regional news when the interviewer asked an old-timer if he’d lived in that village all his life. He replied, “Not yet.”
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Returning to hoover, an English teacher friend of mine made me smile when she told me of a student who had written about “Hamlet’s ghost hoovering in the background”.