Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe  (Read 875541 times)

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6775 on: 27 May, 2024, 08:05:32 am »
Unimpressed by the ambiguity of this headline.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22pm08pmro
Had to read the article to ascertain if the problem was weather or industrial action.
What the hell is ‘signally’ <sic>?

Notably. Worthy of being signalled, like an STD.  Slightly outdated usage, though.

Meanwhile, the Graun report of Pog winning the Giro is a bit strange:

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He adds the Giro title to his two Tour de France triumphs in 2020 and 2021, and did it in style, proving exactly why he had been the pre-race favourite

That proving exactly why is cracked. Showing, maybe.
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citoyen

  • Occasionally rides a bike
Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6776 on: 27 May, 2024, 08:42:36 am »
What the hell is ‘signally’ <sic>?

"This stretch of train track is very signally" = it has a higher than average number of signals

HTH  :)
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6777 on: 27 May, 2024, 08:50:21 am »
What the hell is ‘signally’ <sic>?

"This stretch of train track is very signally" = it has a higher than average number of signals

HTH  :)

I took that the other way around - it's only a bit signally, it could do with being signally enhanced to become fully signalled.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6778 on: 27 May, 2024, 11:20:48 am »
Couldn't find signally in the original article. Someone must have edited it in the meantime.
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hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #6779 on: 27 May, 2024, 03:30:27 pm »
‘Signalling’ would have been the right word.
‘Signally’ was not...