OK so if expressos are bad, how about prostrate problems and not being pacific enough?!!

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....and whilst we're on it, who's been put to sleep by an anaethetist???!!!!

i should stop reading these pedantic threads.
i've just shouted at some poor mum on another thread trying to get a recipe for Victoria Sandwich because she called it a sponge.

i can't help it! it's really not a fucking sponge!!
(at least i didn't swear at her though)

Oh come on WingedVictory, this is a place to be vituperative without being called to produce chapter and verse. But, since you mention it, next time I will make a note and let you know!

A friend of mine drinks lemolade and eats biscwits.

My daughter got a stickyfoot yesterday.

Not sure if this is an age-related thing, but why do so many young people say "arks" when they mean "ask" ?????

Madame can I not say aye even though I'm scottish and I thought it was a perfectly acceptable variant of the word yes?

Now you've got me started. I can no longer watch TV cookery shows because everyone insists on talking about that tasty Italian dish 'brush-etta'.

Nooooooo! It's BRUS-KETTA! (preferably uttered with a slight Italian accent)

On a reminiscent note, years ago when I worked in a cafe in the school hols and we served those Rombouts coffee filters which you put on top of the cup and poured the water into (yes, cappuccino hadn't been invented then!), a surprising number of customers insisted on asking for 'a Rumbelow's, please'.

do some people really think only pirates say aye? tsk

And I was like listening to these teenage girls and they like said like every like five seconds like? And it was like so awesome. And he was like you are so up yourself. And I was like well in your face. Like.

Does anybody want to buy my rot iron bed?

Oh My God thank you for saying BROOSKETTA.

My DP will swear until he dies that it is 'brooshetta' and looks embarrassed for me when I say it CORRECTLY!!!!

Argh and double argh.

It's Ikea not IKEA

It's Gap not GAP

And on Big Brother if you get nominated for eviction you are up for eviction, not up for nomination!!! But that one has gone so deep now even the presenters use it.

Also a very personal one but a friend of mine visited Auschwitz and tells everybody of her experience at oos-wit. What kind of arse will I look like if I correct her, as I haven't been there myself.

Much tongue biting.

Nickelbabe I've always thought that a Victoria sandwich is two sponge cakes stuck together with jam? Am I wrong? And if so why?

A traditional sponge cake doesn't contain fat, LadyGlen.

Mrs Beeton apparently did call it a Victoria Sponge, though her expertise could be questioned in this area, as the recipe in the first edition of her book left out the eggs....

curiosity....I was indeed being sarcastic. Go and lock yourself in your garridge to do penance.

There's some great advise here.

Doesn't it? My culinary education has clearly been neglected. How do you make a cake without fat then? Just flour, sugar and eggs?

Yes, you beat the eggs & sugar together, then fold in the flour. I always seem to make them too dry when I try it, so I usually stick to the sandwich-cake-with-fat-type.

my DP makes carbonara with pannachetta (?)

omg! i couldn't work out what 'skellington' could possibly be so i googled and it actually offered me 'skeleton'.

that means enough people have made that mistake to have registered in the settings of google!!!

i'm afraid though that 'aye' is correct Scots and not incorrect English

I have a friend who is guilty of pretty much all of these. I have to wear ear nonsense filters when I spend time with her. Even so, there are periods of glazing over as I internalise my guffaws.

She has recently started using professionality wherever she can squeeze it in. It seems so wrong, but I am no expert, so tell me- is it a word?

The government/team/company etc is not are

Grrrrrrr

Professionality - not in my dictionary, but then so much ugly usage is very modern. Google doesn't recognise it either.

Arks for ask - For years I only beard this used by black Afro-Caribbean pupils at school. I think it's part of the patois, like "flim" for "film". I would imagine it's spread as a part of being cool.

Just come back to this, and am very confused - how are you supposed to pronounce 5th and 6th??

Want some cake?

Yes, please, just a slither