English Language - what "Does your head in" ??

[Dingdong]

Yes doubling down is really one of the most annoying thing in recent broadcasts.

[thirdcrank]

There's a clickbait heading in the BBC England news page

Robber jailed for attacking girl, 13, over phone

Click the clickbait and it was a violent attack during a robbery involving the phone

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-63677067

ie I misread "over the phone" to mean the suspect achieved a result during a phone call

[sjs]

My grannie couldn't say 'spaghetti'. Enthusiastically she would say 'We're having pisgetti tonight!' and we'd roll around laughing. Happy days!

It was "basgetti' in our house when the children were little

When one of our children was little we had a washing shamine. I quite miss it.

[Mick F]

When our older daughter was little - she's 47 now - asked what our dog, "Sally" was doing, she was told, "She's investigating."
From then on, Sally was invergestinating!

[jimlews]

Like / sorta /you know / kinda / yer but-no but / umm...

[Mick F]

Ending a sentence in "though" in a certain way and stress.

[Dingdong]

Brickbats... Where does that come from!?

[Jdsk]

Brickbats... Where does that come from!?

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Jonathan

[Mick F]

Possessive apostrophes of plurals.

Ladies' shoes ........... for instance, boys' caps, or dogs' dinners?

Why don't people use the "S Apostrophe" these days?

[Bmblbzzz]

Perhaps they are George Bernard Shaw fans.

[Mick F]

I know very little about George Bernard Shaw.
Did he not use possessive apostrophes of plurals?

[Bmblbzzz]

He was well known for his aversion to apostrophes in all circumstances, arguing that they were a needless complication which most people usually used or failed to use incorrectly.

[Mick F]

When we were at skool, it was explained very clearly about the difference between ..........

The boys caps, the boy's caps, and the boys' caps.

First tells you nothing.
Second tells you that a single boy has more than one cap.
The third tells you that there is more than one boy, and they have a cap or more each.

[DaveReading]

Possessive apostrophes of plurals.

Ladies' shoes ........... for instance, boys' caps, or dogs' dinners?

Why don't people use the "S Apostrophe" these days?

It's still widely used.

[thirdcrank]

I know very little about George Bernard Shaw.
Did he not use possessive apostrophes of plurals?

George Bernard Shaw was one of the most influential playwrights in the first half of the 20C. A gap in your schooling, perhaps.

When we were at skool, it was explained very clearly about the difference between ..........

The boys caps, the boy's caps, and the boys' caps.

First tells you nothing.
Second tells you that a single boy has more than one cap.
The third tells you that there is more than one boy, and they have a cap or more each.