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 have 2 choices.

hmm, I bet you really have a choice of two.

Haha, openbook, I spotted my username next to the word vituperative, and thought I had finally gone too far and caused offence with my pedantry! Glad to know you were teasing!

Lesterlassone, I wonder whether the "arks" thing is a matter of Caribbean influence (you know, black kids connecting with their roots, and white kids aping rasta culture; I think Ali G was meant to be a satire of that...?). I know Bermuda is not in the Caribbean, but I have heard it there a bit, and there is a bit of cross-fertilisation in terms of culture and people (temporary immigration, etc.) Can anyone else comment on this?

Paulo, fifth and sixth, my love

one of my friends says sangwitch.....grrrr.....WTF

Huw - the penny has dropped now.....

my dad is forever saying digical tv (grrrrr)

I heard a couple arguing once and he said "well..I mean we're just at completely opposite ends of the speculum aren't we?"

I sincerely hope so...

My Mother saying she's got a Rosemary Colney book...her name is Rosemary CONLEY FFS!! Binoclears also sets my teeth on edge...BINOCULARS!! Grrrrrrr!

Umberella.

Sumbarine.

There are far too many.

Jurastic Park

Conflab.

I did a course when the presenter said that at least twice an hour. I was demented by the end.

Ashoom for Assume.

Eliza: Them slippers!
Henry: Those slippers Eliza.

"I ain't done nothing wrong!"
"I didn't do nowt!"
Double negatives always grate me.

LOL drinkerbell!

Not strictly in the spirit of the thread but DS insists that the large country underneath us is called Hotstralia. He is 4.

Makes sense when you think about it.

My pet hate is "should of".

My mam and sister both say hock dogs instead of hot dogs.

And my DH and mam pronounce hallelujah hal-lel-lu-lia. Really annoys me.

I would just like to express my thanks to RustyBear for doing the sponge explanation ( i only MN at work, so I have only just seen it...)

Delia got it wrong too: i was watching her life story on telly the other day and had to scream "it's not a SPONGE!!!!" at her!

have trained my OH to go "it's not a sponge, it's a creamed cake" when he hears it, but he got totally confused as to which had the most fat, so he's not going to explain!

there's that woman on the radio/tv adverts about cutting carbon emissions who says "if you drive five miles less a week" and i always go "fewer" when i hear it.
it's now an automatic reaction: as soon as she says it i say "fewer" even if i'm talking to someone else! it just cuts through everything else i'm listening to!

I have to put this here otherwise I will make a tit of myself on another thread, but it's paedophile.

I often wonder why there is such venom directed at those with a fetish for garden vegetables.

Aye isn't incorrect English either, nor is it the sole province of pirates - politicians use it too. "all those in favour, say aye". Olde English, see.

tethersend, I know! pead anything winds me up, but so does it being pronounced and spelled pedophile (as it is in Australia and America): ped = to do with feet. grrr.

oh, tethersend! you did what i should have done: posted here instead of going off all half-cocked on the thread it happened! i envy your restraint.

aye is regional dialect
as is hospicle and bockle, and lickle

I say Aye sometimes instead of yes, I live in the North East where is it perfectly normal to say it.

I've never writ "alright" but many others done it.

Well, this is a mischievious thread!

My FIL insists on using tumouric in his curries

Lol @ Drinkerbell.