mouse - micehouse - hice ?goose - geesemoose - meese ?Oh, the joy and simplicity of the English language!
Usage. 'Literally'.This week I have heard it used twice, by people who should probably have known better, when its antonym, or nothing at all, should have been used. Margaret Hodge said something on Question Time about the MOD 'literally throwing money down the drain'. And Sally Bercow on the 10 O'clock Show: "If we do switch to AV MPs are going to literally have a rocket shoved up their bottom". Daily in work I hear the twenty-somethings in the team use it as an intensifier: "I was literally in at 7 o'clock". I sigh and bite my tongue.
Quote from: Andrij on 25 February, 2011, 03:03:29 pmmouse - micehouse - hice ?goose - geesemoose - meese ?Oh, the joy and simplicity of the English language! goose - geeseMoose - meeseMongoose - mongeese
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Out to Bethnal Green next, where we saw Oxford House (or Oh! these days), which was a mission house, complete with Fives court in the basement for the Eton lads who went their to provide paternalistic intervention as 'lamps in the darkness'.
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Quote from: Mal Volio on 26 February, 2011, 10:26:25 pmSpam email:QuoteIs Your Data Protected?If you write "Are your data protected?", then I will hate you! I can't argue with the capitalisation problems there.
Andrij. I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT
"Do you have adequate data protection measures implemented?"
"... is a whole nother topic."Reading an article where instead of the author saying, "... is another topic," or, "... is a whole other topic," uses his own method, splitting up the word another. It is quite amusing.
Not grammar exactly, but if I hear the word 'enormity' misused on the BBC again, I may head down there accompanied by a* BEAR* Clearly not teh BEAR. M. le Maire has the monopoly thereof.
I just used the word 'upliftment', but it's so damn ugly to write and say that it's probably wrong, though I can't think what the correct word would be