It's 'make do' , not 'make due'?

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AIBU?

Colleague senior academic associate wrote' We'll make due' in an email

It's 'make do', right?

Ditto re the ass/arse thing.
Disinterested instead of uninterested is another that winds me up.

And discrete for discreet.

Not to mention loose instead of lose!

I always want to put in big letters, LOOSE RHYMES WITH MOOSE AND MEANS THE OPPOSITE OF TIGHT!!!!

Phew, I feel better now. 😀

Robins

No, it doesn't matter very much in the grand scheme of things - but this thread is the place for pedantry, isn't it?

I'm not sure that 'verily' actually is common in Middle English translations of the Bible though. For a start, there weren't really any wholesale translations in Middle English except Wycliffe. Secondly, there ARE some particularly well-known lines from the KJ version that contain the word 'verily' and so I think that the original link between Bible and verily was based on those - and the term Old English was thrown in, which grated on me because KJ Bible is about 500 years away from being Old English, and isn't even Middle English!

.at euston.

What about:

It's a doggy-dog world?
For all intensive purposes.

A colleague used the word irregardless all the bloody time. Arggh...

Absolutely love "Euston we have a problem". She wasn't possibly doing it as a deliberate joke though?

*Paw and poor sound the same to me, too!

Can someone who pronounced them differently write them phonetically for me-I'm quite interested in how you'd say them.*

I'm from near Durham and paw sounds like law, wheras poor sounds more like sewer.

Dh and dd tease me about how I speak and I don't mind because they don't mean it, but sometimes people look at me funny when I'm asking dd to "howay, get a move on" if she's lagging behind and we are late. I feel very self conscious then.

Dd mentioned earlier that a lot of people seem to be saying "at this point" a lot, I'd never noticed but now I can't stop noticing it :)

I used to argue it was thing, but I had another think and it makes much more sense that it should be think, but... I'm still saying thing cos I get enough eye rolls already :)

I make lots of typos and mistakes so I feel kinda bad that I've laughed at some of the examples here.

Absolutely love "Euston we have a problem". She wasn't possibly doing it as a deliberate joke though

Nope, really wasn't a joke!

My DH insists on curving his appetite than curbing! FB spelling in all it's glory - hear/here...

"et" instead of "ate" is really surprising to me! I would say 4 people at work and 2 close friends say "et" and everyone else I know/hear says "eight"

Ah well. At least "eight" is one of the accepted pronunciations. I'll just have to accept that I ain't posh

"Shabby sheek" instead of chic

At least they didn't say 'shabby Sikh'

merchant - but Wycliffe is a big deal, you can't just brush him to one side! More copies of that survive than of the early modern translations before KJB, and it had a huge influence on the KJB translators. That's amazing when you consider it was effectively banned.

Verily is common Middle English, both within the Bible and without.

Has anyone mentioned "Could have cared less" yet?

Drives me fucking nuts. I think a lot of Americans seem to say it. It makes no sense. You don't care about something, therefore you couldn't have cared less about it.

Could have cared less means that you must have cared a bit.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

Womanactually - please don't let anyone make you feel self-conscious. Accents are brilliant and it would be so dull if everyone spoke exactly the same. IMO a Durham accent is particularly lovely

Jessie Again i agree with you, poetry doesn't always have hard sentences and they can flow into each other, or not.Its an interesting one, i cant find any old version that says 'verily' either, just merrily. So perhaps that the end of that then? but was worth being pedantic over

I still think it's "fare". A "fayre" is an event, surely?

That's what I thought, but according to Collins dictionary, 'fayre' can also mean food. Also, (and I can't quite believe that I am using them as a source of authority on anything particularly when they don't even know how to use apostrophes correctly) there is also the 'Brewers Fayre' chain of establishments.

Although I'm pretty sure that to all intensive purposes 'fayre' is a made-up word, so it's probably a mute point anyway.

Confirmation v conformation irritates me

The one I always have to think about is bear v bare.

reallybadidea I like your moot point

They probably sell "fayre" in Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe . Incidentally I was fascinated to learn some years ago that "ye" in that context is pronounced "the"; the "y" is actually an old letter for the "the" sound that we no longer use.

Hopefully MerchantofVenice can help us on this one?

Brewers Fayre have a problem with apostrophes as well.

*...for the "th" sound, not the "the" sound.

Maybe "fayre" is actually pronounced "father" .

It's this one: þ.

It's called thorn.

We've also got eth and yogh. þ starts looking like a y in the fifteenth century, and it goes from there.

Just seen he PLED not guilty.
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'Has anyone mentioned "Could have cared less" yet?'

Don't think it's been mentioned ungoogleable

This drives me bananas.

It makes no sense whatsoever. And people say it with such conviction!!!!

Maybe "fayre" is actually pronounced "father"

As in 'ghoti' pronounced 'fish'?

You pore over a document. you don't pour over it. Or if you did, I don't imagine it would be much use afterwards.

Your interest is piqued by something, not peeked or peaked.

And I think a pp said this, but I'm going to say it again because it annoys me so much. You flout the rules. Although if you're a teenager with attitude, you may flaunt the fact that you're flouting them.

'Shabby Sikh'

I once had someone send a work related report to me that stated something was 'power for the course'. Had to read it about three times before I actually worked out what he meant.