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

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axel_knutt wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 11:37pm
Mick F wrote: 6 Oct 2022, 6:39pm
Dingdong wrote: 6 Oct 2022, 3:08pm How on earth do they get to call it a pudding!
Have a read at Wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding
"Pudding is a type of food that can be either a dessert or a savoury (salty or spicy) dish that is part of the main meal.........Savoury puddings include Yorkshire pudding,"

Yorkshire Pudding isn't a dessert or a main meal, it's a starter.
A Yorkshire pudding is itself. It is made of batter, like a pancake, but is not as flat as a pancake. It can often be filled, and is sweet or savoury according as its filling is sweet or savoury. If you filled a large one with meat and veg on one side and summat sweet on t'other it might be a main meal. Very versatile, Yorkshire pudding.
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My late Dad was a Yorkshireman and I was born in Leeds, although my Mum is from London. I'm sure she, at various times, served Yorkshire pudding as a starter, with the main course, and as a dessert with syrup.
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richardfm wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 10:59pm "Variety of different". No, just "variety".
"personally, I think". No, just "I think".

I apologise if these have been said before, but it is a very long thread and I haven't read all of it.
And
"My one". No, just "mine".
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richardfm wrote: 6 Nov 2022, 7:39pm
richardfm wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 10:59pm "Variety of different". No, just "variety".
"personally, I think". No, just "I think".

I apologise if these have been said before, but it is a very long thread and I haven't read all of it.
And
"My one". No, just "mine".
How do you fell about auxiliary "do"?
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Bmblbzzz wrote: 7 Nov 2022, 10:56am
richardfm wrote: 6 Nov 2022, 7:39pm
richardfm wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 10:59pm "Variety of different". No, just "variety".
"personally, I think". No, just "I think".

I apologise if these have been said before, but it is a very long thread and I haven't read all of it.
And
"My one". No, just "mine".
How do you fell about auxiliary "do"?
Laughing, perhaps ?
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DaveReading wrote: 7 Nov 2022, 12:10pm
Bmblbzzz wrote: 7 Nov 2022, 10:56am
richardfm wrote: 6 Nov 2022, 7:39pm

And
"My one". No, just "mine".
How do you fell about auxiliary "do"?
Laughing, perhaps ?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Said all before, but it really does my head in.
Wednesday
Saturday
etc ....

Plus, none of the days of the week end in a di. :shock:

February
Temperature
Veterinarian

To name a few.
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Mick F wrote: 7 Nov 2022, 7:04pmPlus, none of the days of the week end in a di. :shock:
They do in France and Italy. :D
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I speak English. :D

Heard just now on R4 referring to a secretary.
It was pronounced as sec-ret-try.

Sorry, there are FOUR syllables in secretary ............ sec-ret-ar-y.
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I shall henceforth pronounce it
se'-cre- tray

thus DOUBLY mickF compliant, I hope!
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Mick F wrote: 8 Nov 2022, 7:16am I speak English. :D

Heard just now on R4 referring to a secretary.
It was pronounced as sec-ret-try.

Sorry, there are FOUR syllables in secretary ............ sec-ret-ar-y.
US: 4 syllables
UK: 3 syllables
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I don't agree.
Pronouncing it with only three syllables is wrong. Nothing to do with US pronunciations.

It's probably a south-east thing.
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Mick F wrote: 8 Nov 2022, 10:44am I don't agree.
Pronouncing it with only three syllables is wrong. Nothing to do with US pronunciations.

It's probably a south-east thing.
Why is it wrong, please?

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People will be shortening other words eh? :lol:

Wensdy instead of Wednesday

Febuary instead of February

Vetrinairan instead of veterinarian

Tempriture instead of temperature

Hence ............ secritry instead of secretary
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Mick F wrote: 8 Nov 2022, 11:14am
Hence ............ secritry instead of secretary
A funny thing, in my Chambers Dictionary secretary is spelt out phonetically as
-sek' ri-ta-ri, strange and possibly why it's drifted to 'secritry', I think I pronounce it secritree, but the more I say it the stranger it sounds -
words are like that !
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