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Not rheTORic. Ffs

Random emphasis on pronouns. Newsreaders are particularly bad for this. "Mrs May is today IN Brussels for talks". "A fire has broken out AT a shoe factory" and so on. Drives me potty and its everywhere.

Also continuity announcers using we've. "After the news we've the next instalment of Holby". No no no!!!

@Owlbethere, thanks! No wonder I didn't remember it too well Language is fascinating.

@lillighters85, I call that Kangaroo Talk, and the first person I noticed using it was thevileClarkson. Since then (nearly 20 years perhaps) it's caught on massively. He must be so proud.

Btw, the rheTORic thing was a professor interviewed on Sky News yesterday.

How can I take him and his professorship seriously, and therefore his supposedly wise words about whatever it was, when he says rheTORic? My head just got full of rheTORic and I heard nothing else....

Random emphasis on pronouns. Newsreaders are particularly bad for this. "Mrs May is today IN Brussels for talks". "A fire has broken out AT a shoe factory" and so on. Drives me potty and its everywhere.

Those aren't pronouns. They're prepositions.

Oh Lord. Yes that's what I meant. I also wrote its not it's but blame my phone and not being able to edit for that one. Sorry!

PRO ject vs PROJ ect

Yuck.

heard a news reader make a right hack job of Addis Ababa the other day, ....ardice-R-BARBAR , next bulettin time it was right, they must have teased her mercilessly behind the scenes.

bulletin ....dearie me. The Typo Karma gods are very quick today. :o

MsMighty

PRO ject vs PROJ ect

Yuck.

First one would be a school thing to me and the second to project voice.

So, @stopitandtidyupp is it a PROject Manager, or PROJect Manager?

I would say it was the first one as in school project.