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Post by amanda on Feb 5, 2011 20:58:14 GMT
Does anyone else get as frustrated and annoyed as I do at the apparent misuse of certain words used singly or in combination? Yes! It irritates me intensely. Follow the instructions onpack, and signup are recent mangles that have wound me up!
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Post by Pete on Feb 5, 2011 23:12:02 GMT
(By the by, don't you just hate the so-common use of "phenomenas" as a plural!) Tone Several groups of phenomena. ;D I haven't come across this one. Standards are dropping every where, it seems. ;D
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Post by Sue M-V on Feb 7, 2011 21:18:07 GMT
... and "anymore"! Ugh! Sue
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Post by Pete on Feb 10, 2011 5:55:49 GMT
On a menu in a Geelong restaurant, I have just seen one dessert that is served with "short bread", and another descrilbed as "creamythick"!
Is this having their cake and eating it, perhaps?
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Post by jjg1 on Feb 10, 2011 19:19:36 GMT
On a menu in a Geelong restaurant, I have just seen one dessert that is served with "short bread", and another descrilbed as "creamythick"! Is this having their cake and eating it, perhaps? Fish and chip shops? Restaurants? Can we assume that your poundage on return to Blighty will be a little more than it was when you left ? jjg1
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Post by Geoff on Feb 10, 2011 22:28:32 GMT
I had a bit of trouble deciphering what was written in yesterday's newspaper in a report regarding the alleged theft of a necklace by Lindsay Lohan: ... the necklace was turned into a police station ... You might think the mistake is obvious, but I took a good minute or so checking if words or lines had been omitted and that I was scanning correctly from one line to the next before the penny dropped.
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Post by Pete on Feb 11, 2011 2:25:18 GMT
I had a bit of trouble deciphering what was written in yesterday's newspaper in a report regarding the alleged theft of a necklace by Lindsay Lohan: ... the necklace was turned into a police station ... You might think the mistake is obvious, but I took a good minute or so checking if words or lines had been omitted and that I was scanning correctly from one line to the next before the penny dropped. As you say, Geoff, nice trick if you can do it!
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Post by Pete on Feb 11, 2011 2:27:15 GMT
On a menu in a Geelong restaurant, I have just seen one dessert that is served with "short bread", and another descrilbed as "creamythick"! Is this having their cake and eating it, perhaps? Fish and chip shops? Restaurants? Can we assume that your poundage on return to Blighty will be a little more than it was when you left ? jjg1 Maybe! I wasn't slim before we started!
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Post by Tone on Feb 11, 2011 21:38:24 GMT
>... the necklace was turned into a police station ...<
This seems to be a common WP trick of running "in to" together. And particularly odd as the usual WP trick is split up words. I've recently seen the horrible split-up "whole sale".
Having said that, I've noticed that many, many people just can't seem to get "into" and "in to" right. Mayhap it's the WPs training the people! (Or is it just our dying education system.)
Tone
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Post by Geoff on Feb 13, 2011 0:55:57 GMT
Seen on the door of a hotel this morning: SCHOONERS AVAILABLE ALLDAY EVERYDAY
We've all seen the misused EVERYDAY, but surely ALLDAY is new, is it not?
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Post by Carleton on Oct 8, 2016 6:42:27 GMT
Word search refuses to recognise wholesales as one word. Now I'm all up in my grill again.
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Post by Verbivore on Oct 8, 2016 8:52:03 GMT
Word search refuses to recognise wholesales as one word. Now I'm all up in my grill again. Neither does the Oxford English Dictionary, Carleton. There isn't really a plural of wholesale the noun; however if you're using it as a verb, as in "He wholesales to dealers", then it's valid. Do you mean wholesale, the middle operation between importer / manufacturer and retailers, or do mean entire/complete sales as in "We made thiry whole sales today? Makes a difference.
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