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I've noticed this loads lately.
In response to any question asked comes a response beginning with the word "so".
Is it getting on my pip?
So, yes I'd say it is.
The other one is the mispronunciation of words ending ....IES.
So, now it's "Mooveeze", "Seventeeze", "Pharmaceeze".
The idiots.
In response to any question asked comes a response beginning with the word "so".
Is it getting on my pip?
So, yes I'd say it is.
The other one is the mispronunciation of words ending ....IES.
So, now it's "Mooveeze", "Seventeeze", "Pharmaceeze".
The idiots.
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I mentioned about the "so" thing a while back on here. It has been happening for quite a while now but has really become prominent over the last 12-18 months.
I first noticed it on Bloomberg a few years ago - like most things nowadays it seems to be imported from the US. |
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Scrolling newsreel across the bottom of the screen on BBC this morning, the word 'organisation' was spelt with a 'z' and not an 's'.
Find out who did it, and sack him/her. And while I'm here, news of police being attacked by revellers at an illegal rave was on the Kent and Sussex news pages. The rave was in Wiltshire. Find out who did it, and sack him/her. |
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There will one person left by the end of the week to turn the lights out..
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Too much seems to be imported from the US. The combination of corporate marketing, films, crap TV and SKY.
http://community.cdnbf.net/community.betfair.com/smilies/sad.gif |
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Looks like a rather strange so-lecism tbh.
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I would have thought that "Well" was the most common opener!
It certainly is on news links to the "on the spot" reporter. |
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I was going to appeal the use of weather advisory by the BBC a few months ago but they dropped the advisory but not the appeal.
I hate the BBC with a vengeance ... nepotism, corruption, anti British, profligacy, paedophile harbouring, reverse racism - I can handle those few quirks ... but the mangling of the English language really gets my goat. |
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Can understand how it can get on your pip, so can i use this thread to announce the language`s that really f**k me off at the moment.
Our company has taken on around 60 new workers over 16 months, mainly East European, Indian and Pakistani. All friendly chaps to work with but insist on speaking loudly in native toungues in the canteen and drowning the now minority of us speaking English. Leicester will be a shining example of multi-culturalism and low wages, a politicians dream. |
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In the introduction to Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, he describes the booming voices of his own family. That is why the first word, translated into Anglo-Saxon as 'Harken', becomes 'So'.
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That should read, translated from Anglo-Saxon into English as 'Harken'.
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It's not mooveeze or movies, it's films or the cinema. One watches a film or one goes to the cinema,just thought it worth a mention.
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The use of the word 'flicks' has been transformed of late..
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Quite true, foinavon.
Like Aeroplane, which seems to have been replace with Airplane. |
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Airplane is a funny movie.
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Airplane ...
"quick, the cockpit!" "what is it?" "it's the room at the front of the plane where the pilot sits" or something like that. ... IMO the funniest film ever ... Roger |
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Already discussed on the forum, but it IS a t1t nipper. Fekn drivel in fact. All I need is a so - ist using AQI as well and my head wants to burst.
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Spellingandgrammarchecker needs to check his spelling before trying to sack people more knowledgeable than himself.
There are two conventions for -ise and -ize endings in British English. The first, favoured by the Oxford English Dictionary, the Times and the BBC, spells words of Greek origin with -ize (e.g. organize) and those of Latin origin with -ise (e.g. advertise); the second, lazier convention is derived from French, with everything taking -ise (e.g. organise, advertise). US English always takes -ize (e.g. organize (also correct in British English), advertize (correct in US, incorrect in Britain)). "Organization" is just a minor sign that the writer is confident in their knowledge of British English and its origins, while the spelling "organisation" suggests the opposite. |
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Oxford spelling can be recognized by its use of the suffix ‑ize instead of -ise: organization, privatize and recognizable instead of organisation, privatise and recognisable. The spelling affects about 200 verbs, and is favoured on etymological grounds, in that -ize corresponds more closely to the Greek root, -izo, of most -ize verbs.[2] The suffix -ize has been in use in the UK since the 15th century,[5] and is the spelling variation used in American English. The belief that -ize is an exclusively American variant is incorrect.[5] The OED lists the -ise form of words separately, as "a frequent spelling of -IZE...":
This practice probably began first in French; in modern French the suffix has become -iser, alike in words from Greek, as baptiser, évangéliser, organiser, and those formed after them from Latin, as civiliser, cicatriser, humaniser. Hence, some have used the spelling -ise in English, as in French, for all these words, and some prefer -ise in words formed in French or English from Latin elements, retaining -ize for those formed from Greek elements. But the suffix itself, whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Greek -ιζειν, Latin -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic. In this Dictionary the termination is uniformly written -ize. (In the Greek -ιζ-, the i was short, so originally in Latin, but the double consonant z (= dz, ts) made the syllable long; when the z became a simple consonant, /-idz/ became īz, whence English /-aɪz/.) The use of -ize instead of -ise does not affect the spelling of words in British English that end in -yse, such as analyse, paralyse and catalyse, which come from the Greek verb λύω, lyo, not from an -izo verb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling |
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You guys!
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Not aeroplane, not airplane. Aircraft.
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So, like what's happening here dudes?
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Try defining or thinking about what "so" actually means and what you would write if you were compiling a dictionary.
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screaming from beneaththewaves
There are two conventions for -ise and -ize endings in British English. The first, favoured by the Oxford English Dictionary, the Times and the BBC, spells words of Greek origin with -ize (e.g. organize) and those of Latin origin with -ise (e.g. advertise); the second, lazier convention is derived from French, with everything taking -ise (e.g. organise, advertise). I don't recall any of that from junior school.  |