Some very funny ones here on (ahem) Sporcle.http://www.sporcle.com/games/Purple_Parrot/send-me-a-sign
A friend suffers terribly from parcels delivered to the wrong address. She lives at 6 Deanbank Street, and the people in 16 Bank Street are rather annoyed.
It is breakfast time. Would you rather have a bacon role or a bacon roll?
recon = reconnoitre surely?
that's not science, it's semantics.
I have noticed an apparent increase in 'non' for 'none' and 'recon' for 'reckon'.
Quote from: ElyDave on 28 October, 2017, 09:36:50 pmrecon = reconnoitre surely?I always thought that recon was short for reconditioned and is pronounced ree-con. As in 'recon engine'.The internet says I'm wrong, it's pronounced ri-'con and means reconnaissance. Surely the word for that is recce?
US dictionaries claim it's a British word. Really?
CampagnolaI'm rarely offended by misspellings as I'm not too hot myself at spelling, and there's no such thing as "correct" spelling, really, as it's an evolutionary thing, but this one makes me Don't people look at their components, or are they misreading the fancy writing?
I called out a mate for sharing right-wing shite on Facebook. I asked him for his sources.He replied that he liked to troll the internet for articles.I think he meant trawl.
https://www.opentable.ie/r/campagnola-new-york
Quote from: Owthathurt on 31 October, 2017, 09:03:58 pmhttps://www.opentable.ie/r/campagnola-new-york http://lacampagnuola.co.uk/#menu-sectionMy Italian's not too hot existent, but I guess it means or at least is intended to imply something rural.