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[tametiger]

Must get these off my chest:
People who insist on pronouncing the final 'g' in 'ing' words - as in sin-G-in-G.
The trend for turning nouns into verbs - torching, mothballing etc.
Why is everyone talking about 'anytime soon'? What's wrong with 'soon' or 'in the near future'?
Phew!

Here here.

"and the plan GOING FORWARD" as opposed to what, exactly? the retrospective plan?

Impacting (used for anything other than wisdom teetch or meteors)

men having trouble with their "prostrates"

teeth, rather

Norty, norty, Chaos.

Heard 'would of' for 'would have' spoken out loud recently (and on Radio 4).

But I do actually agree.

It was a common turn of phrase wehre I worked to "diarise" something.

I left.

Even The Times seems to be falling to the infidel illeterati. At the weekend I saw a review which read '......the author was sat three rows behind.' What's the matter with 'was sitting' or just 'sat'? A tense evening then?

illiterati.

I don't agree with the turning nouns into verbs point - for me it's one of the beautiful things about the English language.

I love that most parts of the body can be nouns or verbs:

Head
Hand
Foot
Knee
Elbow
Neck
Mouth
Nose
Tongue
Stomach
Bum
Leg
Arm
Eye

Lovely!

Was sat, was stood: these grate.

Would of: spoken, fine, I think it is pretty standard, no-one seriously says "she WOULD HAVE gone" do they? Elision is pretty normal in English. Written, it is an abomination though.

No problem with nouns as verbs, I love the flexibility of English.

My pupils drive me nuts with "We done the shopping."

They also did not believe me at all took some persuading that the plural of "you" is not "yous". [facepalm]

Aw, I like "youse" it's so useful (youseful?). I teach English as a foreign language, and you will be gutted to know that I teach my students "youse".

I don't mind it in the vernacular, but they need to know it's not standard English.

I disagree, yellowraincoat.

We might abbreviate say 'would've' but thankfully, few of us say 'would of'.

I went to a meeting yesterday where 2 of my colleagues said 'interpretate' several times.

To me, 'would've' and 'would of' sound pretty much the same. Maybe it's my accent.

Of course students need to know 'youse' is not standard.

Using 'wrote' when it should have been 'written' and 'of' instead of 'have'. Agree with the poster who complained about nouns becoming verbs - for some reason it grates when people 'action' something that they have been 'tasked' with. And when did 'finding' something become 'sourcing', as though a crack team of researchers have been sent on a quest (that they were 'tasked' with 'actioning')?

How sad am I? (No need to answer, thanks all the same!)

Someone already mentioned 'impact'. As an ex-geriatric nurse, I associate that word with serious constipation and the need for enemas.

This needs actioning

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For Free.

I am old enough to remember when things were just 'free'. When did it become fashionable to say 'for'?

calling knitting wool YARN ... unless you are American which is presumably what they call it in America. I know all kniting wool is not officially wool, i.e. could be a synthetic fibre but we call it wool!!!

I heard Hugh Fernley-What'shisface refer to something as 'a big ask' the other night. I screamed at the television.

I know our language evolves but really...

Why would you do that, JingleBellEnd? Just, why? I'll action you! shakes fist at sky

'You was a good boy today'
'Can you itch my shoulder'
'I borrowed John that book'
'I won him at Mario Kart'

Grrrrrrr

"The girls veed the boys at football."
"The girls versed the boys at football."

Played will suffice, children.

On Cbeebies last weekend the presenter said "Give it up for ". What happened to "put your hands together for "?