English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
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Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Hi,
Words I hate-
Inspired.............does anyone need to be.
Amazing...................not a view of nature, probably human nature.
Texted pronounced text-ed.
Fresh food served daily / always fresh.....anything with fresh in it.
Cliché's because degree'd state employees cant just report it as it is, so its buttered.
Words I hate-
Inspired.............does anyone need to be.
Amazing...................not a view of nature, probably human nature.
Texted pronounced text-ed.
Fresh food served daily / always fresh.....anything with fresh in it.
Cliché's because degree'd state employees cant just report it as it is, so its buttered.
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Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Where I came from, "text" was not a verb so you couldn't have added "-ed" to it anyway.NATURAL ANKLING wrote:Texted pronounced text-ed.
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Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
No, they're not.jgurney wrote:People calling perry "pear cider".
They're perhaps using the correct terminology though there is much confusion.
There's a difference between Perry and Pear Cider.
Pear Cider is a drink flavoured with pear juice, or a drink made from pear concentrate.
Perry is made from only real pears ......... and nowt else.
There's also a difference between Cyder and Cider, but I'm not sure what it is.
Maybe it's the same idea as the difference between Pear Cider and Perry?
Mick F. Cornwall
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
I'm passionate . . . . . . . .
Get too close at your own risk !
Any time I hear "passionate" used, I substitute "deranged".
Get too close at your own risk !
Any time I hear "passionate" used, I substitute "deranged".
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Graham wrote:I'm passionate . . . . . . . .
Get too close at your own risk !
Any time I hear "passionate" used, I substitute "deranged".
That's interesting because whenever I see this overused word I take it to mean "we want you to believe we are interested in what we do..."
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Mick F wrote:jgurney wrote:People calling perry "pear cider".
No, they're not.
Yes they are, often.
They're perhaps using the correct terminology though there is much confusion.
There's a difference between Perry and Pear Cider.
Exactly.
Pear Cider is a drink flavoured with pear juice,
Perry is made from only real pears ......... and nowt else.
Exactly - 'pear cider' should be used only for a cider with pear juice added (like 'Blackberry cider', 'Elderflower cider', etc).
However it is also being widely used to mean perry. Most if not all of the drinks sold in supermarkets labelled 'Pear cider' are in fact either perries or pear wine spritzers. True pear ciders are in the minority. Allegedly Brothers are responsible*. They had a cider tent at some of the Glastonbury Festivals where they also sold perry. They got tired of explaining what perry was to people who had never heard of it, and took to calling it 'pear cider'. Tescos then copied the useage on an own brand pear wine spritzer. Not that I think much of that either, but the big manufactures seem to be getting away with calling apple wine spritzers (or perhaps 'apple flavoured glucose wine spritzers' would be more accurate) like Magners and Strongbow 'cider'.
There's also a difference between Cyder and Cider, but I'm not sure what it is.
'Cyder' is just a dialect spelling resurrected for marketing use. Gaymers seem to have taken to using it in the 1960's.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Cider
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Cider does my head in - usually after a couple of pints of scrumpy .
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gaz wrote:landsurfer wrote:Archive the summit.
I disagree. The summit should not be stored for posterity .
Breasting the summits of course!
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Hope one may be positive here too..
There are some lovely words we have snatched from elsewhere
"Bouleversement" is my favourite
There are some lovely words we have snatched from elsewhere
"Bouleversement" is my favourite
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Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Another annoying usage is referring to multiple rashers of bacon as "bacons". The staff in my workplace canteen keep doing it e.g. saying "So that's two eggs and three bacons" when entering items in the till.
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Bouleversement is a lovely word. I've never heard it used in English though. Maybe time to start!
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Yep.jgurney wrote:Another annoying usage is referring to multiple rashers of bacon as "bacons". The staff in my workplace canteen keep doing it e.g. saying "So that's two eggs and three bacons" when entering items in the till.
Agree.
I think it's all to do with portions and what you're allowed for the price.
One egg.
One sausage.
One black pudding.
One hash brown.
One toast.
One bacon.
One bean!
Mick F. Cornwall
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Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Hi,
2ND's.................no problem
People still do seconds at parties etc, I'm old fashioned and was taught that its bad manners.
2ND's.................no problem
People still do seconds at parties etc, I'm old fashioned and was taught that its bad manners.
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Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Nah, it would be one beans, two beans. One is enough for me, with two eggs, usually; sometimes I'll have two beans, one egg. Eggses and beanses preferred to raw fisheses.