To think that the singular of Weetabix is not 'Weetabic'

[doradaisy]

My DtwinSs are in a creche and they love their Weetabix at break time.

Creche worker always give me an account of what they've eaten and tell me they had 'one weetabic each'. I always think to myself 'don't you mean one weetabix' but never say it.

Do I need to get a life?

"can I just mention phenomena? One of them is a phenomenON FFS "

What do people think it is??

Even people on television and radio news talk about a 'phenomena'.

Another that makes me cross is to see pound / pounds (weight) having an incorrect plural. It's always in something printed or subtitles.

It should be:
1 lb
2 lb

Not 2 lbs.

Pound (weight) in Latin is 'libra' and the plural is 'librae' so the 's' in 'lbs' just should not be there.

I assume your DC are small and wouldn't eat 2 W... - maybe the playworker would still call them Weetabic?

My DS (almost 7) says a few odd things and I don't seem to be able to change it. He always says 'breakstuff' (never breakfast). He can say it, and even when its written down he will read 'breakstuff' - I have given up

Hahahahahahaha.

That is all.

My mum's says Tesco's and John Lewis's instead of Tesco and John Lewis - and it makes me want to twat her.

I feel the same irrational rage over Weetabic (though it is also very amusing for some reason).

Arrrggghhhh My mum says

Weetabix are like sheep..... well definitley in one respect they are.

Only one sheep or a flock of sheep - they are still sheep.

"Weetabiscuit," surely?

Proud My (lovely) Mum says "cereals" as in: "I'm just going to have a bowl of cereals this morning".

Aaaaagh!

TerrierMalpropre

Well, if your mother has muesli, she does have cereals, doesnm't she?

*doesn't

True, that . Not muesli, however.

diddl - I often hear people referring to a single phenomenon as 'a phenomena'.

Thanks (thanx?) for your insights. Am very impressed with your linguistic prowess - es - es

On the 'text' issue, am sure the OED consider that to be a verb now, so it should (start) acting like one really (if it knows that's good for it...)

I have a sister who turns lots of nouns into verbs, all the time. Whenever I take DC to her place for the weekend to stay in her lovely big house in the country it's all;

"Shall we pyjama the children as it's getting late?"

"Do you think we'll get the children ready for bed and DVD them?"

"My son has a temperature so I'm afraid I'll have to calpol him immediately!"

She's a busy mother of four. My theory is that she has no time for normal subject-verb-object syntax

"Shall we pyjama the children as it's getting late?"
erm, it should of course be pyjama-fy (to rhyme with tie)

My pet peeve: Data are PLURAL and therefore the verb agreement should be such: eg: the data suggest, not the data suggests.

Will have to ask my lovely Swedish friend about Weetabix now though!!

I like it aftereight

She even uses it in the past tense 'The kids were so hyper it was ages before I pyjamaed them'

Yes indeed 'pyjamafied' sounds better :)

Perhaps she's trying not to be brand-biased and has shortened it to bic rather than wheat biscuit .

@ the phrase "Shall we pyjama the children as it's getting late?"

I'm going to de-trampoline the children now, dinner them and then pyjama them. Then I'm going to vinify-and-TV myself.

bon soir terrier, Vous parler les Englais aussi, très bien. Je ne parler les Englais hardly at all. Je mostly parler Franglais tout des temps

oh btw I de Beavered DS1 and milked him, cheese stringed him and bedded him, and I milked DS2 and bedded him early tonight as he was tired. I have already vinned and dinnered myself and will shortly be bedding myself too

Aaah! Bon Soir, ADLJ! Corriger! Je suis est bilingue. Je parle l'Anglais et le Franglais!

at "milked him".

panini/o just blew my mind a little bit!