It’s knickers not knicker!!

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Why are people constantly changing things that should be plural into a singular.

eg. “Free knicker with every bra” or “she sported a red lip” and “he went for a black trouser”.

Drives me nuts. It is knickers! Sported red lips! Black trousers. And yes, these are UK examples.

I know people are going to come along and wonder if I haven’t got better things to worry about. But interested to know…AIBU?

YABU - move with the times, language evolves.
YANBU - it’s knickers, FFS!!

Sewing Bee

Oh, YANBU, YANB at all U.

Yes! I really hate that too. It's everywhere!

Don't forget that someone has "curated" the look this season so you can "shop the edit ". All while wearing your trouser and sporting a smokey eye and red lip.

And you can try the different "colourways".

This is typical of Yorkshire and some other northern dialects where units are commonly singularised.
It is 30 foot long, weighs 10 ton, and cost 40,000 pound.

And "nail polish"

It's nail varnish!

I agree about the red lip, Smokey eye, a nude shoe thing...what colour is the other lip/other eye/what are you wearing on your other foot then?

And why on earth do they 'rock a nude shoe' or whatever? Have they got a pile of stones on one foot, and barefoot on the other?

And while we're at it .. since when have we started missing the 't's' in words
It's not ' ki -ens' it's 'kittens'

It's not 'mi -ens' it's 'mittens'

I always thought "red lip" was shorthand for red lipstick rather than red lips

It got stolen from Maths - they have math and legos, we have maths and Lego.

@Howlongwillthistake definitely as long as the East end of London has existed. I didn't hear a pronounced mid-word T until I went to university.
It's called regional accent. Posh people (especially politicians) now ape estuary English to sound cool and less detached from reality.

Honestly, write enough words of boring copy, drivelling on endlessly about whatever the hell the product is, you'll find yourself coming up with absolute garbage in the end too. Or you know, won't get work writing such drivel and can skip merrily through the fields, free as a bunny on a sunny day.

My brief this week is to write up some copy about a thing (can't say, outing, would like to stay hired) that doesn't actually exist in the UK, a thing no one should bloody have in the first place if you actually could get it, that may have multiple varieties and theres no way of telling what variety one will get at the point of purchase.

Previous bosses have actually said 'just make up some guff if you need to'. (Not this one, they're a good un.)

And that people, is what ends up in your magazines and on websites. Some of us try to put as much fact into the guff as possible and some people literally couldn't give a single shiny shite.

I hate it to. It's used on MN all the time a red lip, legging, trouser. The worst is curated earrings. People see it mentioned in fashion articles and copy. It's just sounds so forced and stupid.

It’s a drawer, not a draw. Draw is something to do with a pencil or crayon, or pen.

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Well they just need to give it back to maths where it belongs!

I blame trinny and susanna on What Not to wear in the 00s

I absolutely hate it when people pluralize supermarket names. It's not Tescos/aldis/Lidls....it gives me the rage!

There's a special place in hell for people who call records "vinyls".

It’s die not dice.

Lip, knicker, trouser......just no

I've never heard anyone talk like this. If someone i know said they "sported a red lip" i think i would laugh in their face!

Reminds me of a really-crummy-but-of-its-time skit that Little & Large used to do, where Eddie would sing Buddy Holly's 'Oh Boy' with different lyrics: "Oh, my love, I've been kissing.... your top lip, 'cause the bottom one's missing, oh boy...."

Honestly, write enough words of boring copy, drivelling on endlessly about whatever the hell the product is, you'll find yourself coming up with absolute garbage in the end too. Or you know, won't get work writing such drivel and can skip merrily through the fields, free as a bunny on a sunny day.

Do you do that thing that Dave Gorman has spoken at length about - the 'alternative second mention' or whatever it's called, where you have to find different ways of saying the same thing every time you refer to it in an article? I particularly liked the one where his guests had to find alternatives for 'cheese' and came up with phrases like 'onion's best friend' and 'udder fudge'

I was coming on but someone has said it but still drives mad when people say math instead of maths. Do the math ahhhh.

Well yes. I'm a Northerner and am familiar with its use in certain dialects.

DH is not a Northerner. It isn't a dialect thing. It's a weird and irritating habit.