There is a R4 programme on at the moment discussing "pattents".When did a patent become a pattent? No one refers to "pattent leather" and nothing has ever been "pattently obvious" to anyone, so why the widespread mispronunciation of this word?
that's not science, it's semantics.
6Music newsreader described someone as self-depreciating
I think we've had it before, but Don McLean's blatant "Febuary" in "American Pie" made me cringe the other day.
Not 'shiver' ?
Is that worse or better than 'parsty'?
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.
Sorry if it's been said before but moosecasters who refer to a minister as the Seckertree of State should be shot through the lungs...