RiffRaff Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 More annoying usages: 'issues' when you mean 'problems/difficulties' 'logistics' when you mean 'delivery/transport' 'pushback when you mean 'opposition/resistance' 'takeaways' [no, not food ones] when you mean 'conclusions/results' And 'journies'.... Don't forget 'journies'..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontarian1981 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 And stuff. to mean anything or everything else-first heard said by Paul McCartney in the sixties now used by the younger end. Whale oil beef hooked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hardie Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 And 'journies'.... Don't forget 'journies'..... Usage or spelling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiffRaff Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Usage or spelling? Yes, and yes! Read an article in one of the weekend papers about someone's training and subsequent work experience, and it was used no less than 3 times in 2 paragraphs.... ---------- Post added 08-12-2017 at 09:28 ---------- Yes, and yes! Read an article in one of the weekend papers about someone's training and subsequent work experience, and it was used no less than 3 times in 2 paragraphs.... (Or 'fewer'!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilge Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 I heard a presenter on BBC Radio 5 say 'Asterix' the other day when he meant 'asterisk'. How can a BBC journalist get that wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyboy Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 (edited) Eggzit instead of exit. The amercan pronunciation of harass, accent on the second a. Edited December 12, 2017 by davyboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiffRaff Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Eggzit instead of exit. The amercan pronunciation of harass, accent on the second a. ...and the disappearance of the letter 't' in spoken words. Listened to a radio interview recently in which the reporter was chatting to three university students - sorry, univerrseeuh stoodens - who all sounded thick as planks because of it... or 'i-uh'. ---------- Post added 13-12-2017 at 10:02 ---------- Thankfully, these don't seem to have crossed the Atlantic yet, but another two 'Americanisms' are "a ton of" and "a bunch of"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hardie Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Try and / Try to "What we need to try and do is......." Heard this on the radio this morning spoken by none other than the Secretary of State for Education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiffRaff Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Try and / Try to "What we need to try and do is......." Heard this on the radio this morning spoken by none other than the Secretary of State for Education. Shud be shott at dorn! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaffa1 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Some people are way too pedantrick when it comes to words, spellings, ect. It's etc not ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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