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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And 'leads the stars ...' and variations thereof, as in 'Elton John leads the celebrity mourners at the funeral of Ozzie Osbourne', or 'Sabrina Carpenter leads the stars on to the red carpet at Hollywood gala'.

The whole pecking order nonsense, the inane use of clichéd language, the mediocrity of the PR tactics that underpin it all ... ok, it's not exactly the Last Days of Rome but it's pretty bloody dismal.

TBF that works both ways. Americans say median instead of central reservation, sunscreen instead of suntan lotion, cellphone instead of mobile phone, freeway instead of motorway…

I'd like to add 'hack', too, instead of a tip or a suggestion.

I don’t mind this at all, it’s just a new term that has evolved in recent years, you get used to it. It’s useful to know that Netflix or whatever has dropped all episodes of a show, rather than, for instance, releasing a new episode once a week (annoying).

My pet hate is obligated instead of obliged.

Totally agree OP

Whats wrong with released. Whats wrong with that?

'likely' instead of 'probably', eg 'she likely already had her lunch'

believe origins come from the newspaper industry, drop bundles of newspapers off at news stands.

But the bundles of newspapers were actually physically dropped. We used to hear them being dropped at 5am outside the newsagent opposite my mum's house. Thump thump thump.

Is that something you've looked up or is it generally known, it doesn't sound right to me, newspapers have been physically dropped since they were invented but dropped in the context the OP is saying is very new. How would that have just now come about?

It's been around for decades in music industry, to drop and new album, just means to publish / release.

My understanding was it came from dropping off newspapers on the street, i.e. publishing in older times, just done a quick google and seems to back it up.

This must be the first time in history that a word's literal meaning has been followed by it being used metaphorically. It's hugely disturbing and probably dangerous.

Yes, OP, I agree. I also think of ‘dropping’ something or someone as not wanting it/them anymore and the change is usage is irritating and confusing.

LOL so true!

Yes, 'released' is fine!

Loving your work MasterBeth 😀

That sets my teeth on edge! 😂 HACK sounds like you're choking on something, and trying to get it out of your throat! 😬

I always assumed it came from dragging and dropping files onto a server. Eg) to “release” anything digital the creators would drag and “drop” the files from their server/computer to the server hosting it for the public to access it/buy it etc

I am likely totally wrong but that’s where I assume it came from

Exactly. A bundle of newspapers can be 'dropped.' How and why is a new film, video, album, song, or TV show 'dropped?!'

Just ARGHHHH! 😠

I may need to get a life. 😆

Yes! And people always "take to social media". I've never heard anyone used that phrase IRL.

Yes! Hate 'dropped' as you respond emotionally to it in the opposite way ie sad that a TV show is ending, when actually they just mean new episodes have been released. Also hate hack as PP mentioned!

I was with my young adult DS and his friends recently when they asked if I'd ever dropped a roast chicken while at university. It turns out they were asking whether I had ever made one, not whether I had ever accidentally dropped one on the floor.

I’ve never heard anyone say ‘suntan lotion’ . Normally Brits say suncream or sunblock.

Plenty of people say it including my British family. It’s something I said until I emigrated.

Yes, I forgot that one!

Totally agree that this is shit but then again I'm old. I hate it when people who should know better, as the are my age, say it.