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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    That's a pearler pansyface   :)
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    May I ask what is wrong with sortation and why it's frowned upon?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It annoys me when you ask somehow they are and they reply....Yes. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    edited November 2021
    What's wrong with "sorting", @steveTu?

    Or, better still perhaps, "Being sorted"...  ...which removes the need for "facility" as well.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...right, got you. It's not the one word but the phrase that is your issue.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Snap, @pansyface.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    DHL have succumbed, like many others, to the peril of eating the fruit of the chewy bollocks tree.
    Rutland, England
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited November 2021
    What's wrong with sortation? Wouldn't 'you' say 'at the sewage filtration plant' rather than 'at the sewage filtering plant' or 'at the distribution centre' rather than 'distributing centre'? English is odd though eh?


    Edited to add: Just googled it and others have had this discussion and Royal Mail used to use the term - and it's an old term (doesn't appear to be  a recent Americanism or some such) - https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/sortation.2014092/

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    steveTu said:
    May I ask what is wrong with sortation and why it's frowned upon?
    I'd like to ask DHL what's wrong with a good old fashioned sorting office. We know where we are with one of those. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I like the idea of "consolidation" of orders onto lorries...  as in "This box of cakes is taking up far too much space.  Let's consolidate it a bit..."
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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