To hate the way some people - usually in the media - use the word 'dropped?'

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I'm not putting this in Pedants Corner because I don't think I'm being pedantic in HATING the way some people use this word now.

Case in point: ITV has 'dropped' all episodes of gripping crime thriller 'Under The Bridge.' I saw that they had done this, and was like 'oh no, why? Has someone who's in it done something wrong?' (been cancelled!) 🙄I wondered if there is something in it that they can't show now?

Noooo, it turns out they meant they are putting all the episodes on ITVX. 🙄

They don't even say 'ITV drops them all onto the ITV player.' No. They have 'dropped' them all. If you hear that someone has been dropped from a team, do you assume they've been put on it? NO. You assume they've been taken OFF it. ARGH!!! Can they stop this nonsensical shite?! 😠Sabrina Carpenter's new single just 'dropped,' Taylor Swift's new album just 'dropped.' No. It was RELEASED.

Rant over. 😂

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I learnt a new term today thanks to connections, it's known as a contronym -word that has two opposite or contradictory meanings.

But yeah it's confusing.

There’s a difference between the verbs:

To be dropped
To drop

Totally agree, I sometimes have to read things twice to be sure I understand what it means

My initial assumption in your example would be that the programme had been cancelled

Yeah, annoying -Americanism. Same with pop of colour -splash is better -and both pop and drop are a bit toilet connected in my brain - and power outage -seems clearer if you say power cut.

It’s one verb.

Same. R6 use it sometimes.

I always just assumed it was a borrowed term from music - the beat drops. And, in my head, like when bundles of newspapers or new boxes of records were delivered so dropped off to the shops. Like how we still say hang up the phone even though we don't physically hang anything.

Glad it's not just me! 😬

Could be! It's just a bit confusing. As I say, when that news item said 'ITV has dropped all episodes of Under The Bridge' the first place my head went to was 'they have been taken off.'

Oh yes- these are interesting. A good one is fast as in quickly and fast as in stuck fast.

This is literally the same verb in two different voices (active and passive).

What's wrong with 'launched'? As a verb to cover this situation, I mean. New products always used to be launched, now they are dropped.

And yet, ships continue NOT to be dropped...

That doesn't make the case though.

The player was dropped from the team.

The team decided to drop the player.

Well, released worked perfectly well.

Hate hate hate it op- x dropped a new track last night- put it in the bin with ‘going forward’ and ‘gives me the ick’😅

I know an artist will say a new album has been dropped or they have dropped a new album so was about to say u are being unreasonable but then they can be dropped from their record company so yeah I get what you mean

That one doesn’t particularly bother me but the media does have its own language, a lot of which is very irritating.

Tottered.
Hitmaker.
Revellers.
Stepped out.
Outrage.
Broke his/her silence.

I think language should stop developing now that I am here. It's good that the meanings of words that were used before I was alive changed to the perfect version of English that I was taught and now speak, but let's leave it there. All new uses that are developing by younger or more American people than me are stupid and annoying and my English teacher when I was about nine and I should be the authority on how to use language.

Americans seem to like two syllables where one would do, not to mention 3 instead of 2 - e.g. burglarised instead of burgled.

New bugbear just dropped.

American here. I’d say a power cut is intentional whereas outage is unintentional. Where I live we get few cuts but many outages.

Have you never dropped something off ?

I think there's an interesting point about how we consume advertising, media etc now here - a product launch to me is spreading widely out into the world e.g. TV ad campaign, public event. Product 'drops' fits more with onto a website, social media, streaming content - consumed mostly on personal devices, so feel like they are being dropped to individuals

Yep, I hate it too. I've heard it used in other contexts too such as putting money into someone's account, for example "they dropped 1k in his account" as opposed to "they put 1k in his account". As another poster said, it sounds vaguely lavatorial.

Gosh people love to moan about anything... It's come from music industry, and slang, believe origins come from the newspaper industry, drop bundles of newspapers off at news stands.