Cringe expressions

[Silverseas1]

I know this has been covered loads of times but here it is again. Feel free to ignore. Does anyone else positively cringe when reading or hearing people say 'would of' 'could of', 'should of' instead of have? It makes my toes curl 🤦‍♀️🤣

Definitely!

'Decimated' means to reduce to 10% of the original figure.
Which does imply, a huge change.
Eg. 'Insect populations being decimated in the last 10 years' means 90% have been lost.
Not 10%, as you suggest.

It's connected speech. Unstressed vowels (it can by any of the 5) are generally pronounced with the same weak "schwa" vowel.

I could have gone
A bottle of beer

The weak vowel in both "have" and "of" is a schwa.

Schwa is the most common sound in the English language.

The
Africa
Tomato
Woman
A
That

The 3 nouns have a schwa all the time. The form words do in connected speech.

Try saying (and understanding) "He said that that that that that man said was correct" without a schwa. There are 2 different sounds for the letter "a" in those "thats" One is strong /æ/ (cat/twat etc) One is weak. Sounds like a combination of "a" and "u".

That's how the written mistake happens. The pron of "have" and "of" in weak forms differs only in the "h" (which is often also elided)

/hæv/ = "have" (strong)
/əv/ = "have" (weak)
/əv/ = "of" weak
/ɒv/ = "of" strong.

Surprised it's taken so long for the anti-American English shit to start.

No it doesn't.

Decimation originated in the executing of one in ten Roman soldiers as a punishment for a military crime, e.g mutiny. That's 10% of the original number of troops.

What idiot commander would kill 90% of his soldiery to make an example?

Surprised it's taken so long for the anti-American English shit to start

Bizarre.

The server said it meant that you got ‘dirty’ eating it, as it was a bit drippy! You had to lick your fingers. Sounded like normal eating to me…😀

Cringe used as an adjective
Invite used as a noun
Gifted instead of given or gave
Gotten
Nibling
Phased instead of fazed
Boils my piss

I agree about "I mean this very kindly" when someone is about to be deeply patronising or cut someone else down to size.

echt has beaten me to it,

Eg. 'Insect populations being decimated in the last 10 years' means 90% have been lost. Not 10%, as you suggest.

It was the execution of one in ten, for cowardice. People have been misusing it in recent times.

Now don't get me wrong echt and SinnerBoy I thoroughly agree and inwardly roll my eyes when someone uses decimate incorrectly but I have noticed it more and more in recent years and have come to accept that language evolves and I think perhaps that this is a prime example.

I am so pleased to read this, I had it completely wrong. I apologise for correcting you.

"Shop the edit"

"Curated collection"

Someone wrote "platty joobs" on here once and I wanted to slap it right off the screen, bothered me so much.

"picture the scene"

"a red lip"

Anything like that, ugh.

Children being referred to as 'little ones'
Headspace
Wine o'clock
"The proof is in the pudding" instead of "The proof of the pudding is in the eating".

These

Could OF, etc

@BrendaMcPherson

what on Earth is wrong with Little ones?

I'm not exactly a fan of this method either.

"It is what it is." I find it passive aggressive.

Also "sheep" and "sheeple" to describe people. Fuck off.

My bad...grr

Baby, without the/my/our, etc. Blerurghhh.

"what on Earth is wrong with Little ones?"

It's incredibly twee.

Well that's a boring explanation! Sorry not shooting the messenger here, was hoping for something a bit more exciting

As another poster said, it's twee. What's wrong with child/children?

A glass of bubbles

Hubs/hubby