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People who use the wrong words.....
People who use the wrong words.....
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Joel 23 Jun 14 23:03
People who say 'it all goes well' instead of 'augurs well'. JOEL there is NO way those using the former expression are doing so in lieu of the latter...they wouldn't know what 'augur' meant if it jumped up & hit them in the face. think ur crediting them with way more intelligence than they possess basically,the country is full of bottom feeder barely educated in bred chav mutants(& that's the creme de la creme)  am i being a tad harsh? |
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I hate those ba+++rds who serve coffee...
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 I'm not in your country but there's a certain race caller in mine who has used it on more than one occasion, along with another broadcaster. It doesn't all go well for the future of the country  |
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Would that be 'inbred'?
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^To Johnnythebull.
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And I also think that Spellinggrammar guy meant 'bugbear'. Fine examples of people using the wrong words!
 I'd guess I've just put myself in the firing-line.  |
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O.P. I very much hope that they're not as bothered about it as 'YOU' are..
Thanks dewey, but you lost me there! I'm talking here about the spoken word rather than written. I can't believe, for instance, that the growing number of people who write "to" and "too" incorrectly (despite their ignorance) would say "are you going too the cinema" or, when asking someone else if they are would say "are you going to". So that being the case, why can they not write it as it is spoken? |
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People who say nothink instead of nothing
This seems to be the standard for "Take Away Food Order Process Executives" who always say "Anyfink else"? |
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Their,they're and there are common mistakes on here,or should that be 'hear'.
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Ware?
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Ware is in Hertfordshire (whence I am from).
HTH |
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Selling my car a few years back, a perspective byer came round while I were lying prostate in front of the tele, door-bell gone off and the dogs gone nucular. Never again.
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This is the sickth thread we've had on this subject.
Muntz Street Joined: 02 Feb 06 Replies: 7031 23 Jun 14 19:20 John Hartson described a goal in this World Cup as a "cardboard cutout" of a goal in an earlier game. Brilliant, I'm using this from now on! |
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Ken. Would that be 'I WAS lying'?
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Well done ewe.
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Whoops!! Shot self in foot. Just realised that Ken's post was intentional!
 That's the trouble with trying to be a smart-arse. |
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whence I am from
I like that mistake. I mite ewes that won. |
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naydam 24 Jun 14 16:00
Ken. Would that be 'I WAS lying'? naydam 24 Jun 14 16:04 Whoops!! Shot self in foot. Just realised that Ken's post was intentional! That's the trouble with trying to be a smart-arse. You forgot to mention perspective, byer, prostate and nucular. |
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My brother-in-law who's in his late eighties seems to be getting over his prostrate problems according to my half sister.
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ah, I see that's been done the other way round. lol
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when I was a kid the lady who lived next door to us used to use all sorts of wrong words, but I especially remember the following ones:
"the car wouldn't start again this morning, it's very sentimental" and "I've just been out in the garden planting some siblings" she was from a large family of cumbrian farming folk and back in the 20s & 30s champion jockey tommy weston was a regular lodger at her dad's farm during race meetings at carlisle - in those days the jocks used to sleep in a cot over their horses in the stable... happy days  rip Doreen M, my second mum  |
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CMAT. That was how I realised that his errors were intentional. I should have read it properly.
Still, not to worry. |
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Phil Neville commenting on the white spray on the football referred the 'imaginary line'.
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Do you snort it up your 'imaginary' nose?
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Chris Waddle always says "pellanty" when trying to say penalty.
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Dozy neighbour, years ago, was telling another neighbour that the village was exempt from a hose pipe ban,
because we were on a "Fresian" well! |
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The worst offenders in life are those who fall foul of Skit's Law.
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When I lived in Ireland during the troubles and there were a lot of army helicopters around, I knew a man who used say that the helicopters were "hoovering around the border."
I also knew an old lady who would say that she was going out to the garden "to plant some scrubs." Another old lady gave a friend of mine a letter to post to England and when he read the envelope she had spelt Suffolk as "Suffu ck" |
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one of the most universally used,lazy ones tacked onto the end of nearly every expression has got to be 'innit',innit?!
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some people cant even say the letter H correctly, little p ickey bloke i used to play golf with always said "he do" instead of "he does"
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I'll happily concede that she was only young at the time and still learning to read properly but my daughter came out with one of the funniest lines when a warning light lit up in my car. I got her to read from the manual and she read that "the indignation system ....." instead of "ignition system".
Made me lol! |
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I've got knee trouble,I think it's the cartridge or part of the skellington. It's from when I hit the windowscreen.
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That reminds me "egg" of some stupid Irish presenter, on a car type tv proramme, who was discussing the merits of a particular car,
and came out with the classic "Take these rear headlights"! You have to imagine that in a strong Irish accent...... |
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the idea has been muted several times in the past
ffs |
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Just read somewhere else about how GPs have become blazee.
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Jo "Super Nanny" keeps saying "it's not assebtable".
Widely used in the Asian communities are "Radioater"...."Emergency Heater" and "Kabut Sale". From some dim American who wrote "Garder Belt" because that's how they say it! |
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My youngest thought that annoying PPI advert on Talksport was
"Have I got creepy eyes dot com" And someone I used to work with thought the lyrics of the song "I Try" by Macy Gracy (you know the one - I try to say goodbye and I choke, try to walk away and I stumble...) was "I wear goggles when you are not here" which is not only quite funny but also an enduring image. |