I go out for the day and come back to find pages of chuckles! Great thread.
Pet hates (among many others) "alright". Two words, or so my English teacher insisted when I wrote it on my slate - all right. Mind you, I'd rather read it and be mildly irritated than hear "awrite" and be really annoyed.
Pronunciation: battries. Where is the middle "e"? Comftable. Where is the middle "or"? Guaranteed to raise the blood pressure a couple of notches.
The milky bar kid advert song used to say nessles milky bar. Not sure if they changed the pronunciation when we joined the common market as was or it might have been after decimalisation.
Which reminds me of decimated which means reduced by one tenth, not destroyed
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I go out for the day and come back to find pages of chuckles! Great thread.
Pet hates (among many others) "alright". Two words, or so my English teacher insisted when I wrote it on my slate - all right. Mind you, I'd rather read it and be mildly irritated than hear "awrite" and be really annoyed.
Pronunciation: battries. Where is the middle "e"? Comftable. Where is the middle "or"? Guaranteed to raise the blood pressure a couple of notches.
TLA - Three Letter Abbreviation. Lots of them used in the Andrew
Artic and Antartic annoy me. And longtitude.
And has anyone ever seen Charlotte rample?
Hazel it's hello with a posh phone voice
The milky bar kid advert song used to say nessles milky bar. Not sure if they changed the pronunciation when we joined the common market as was or it might have been after decimalisation.
Which reminds me of decimated which means reduced by one tenth, not destroyed
If a Roman legion mutinied, they would kill one in ten as a punishment. It saved wasting trained soldiers
Exactly, B3. Precisely, Hazel.
The verb 'to kipple' should mean 'to bake exceedingly good cakes'.
This channel is now closing down while we watch The Great Gatsby.