Mourning the apparent demise of electricity

[MontyDonsBlueScarf]

... but taking some small comfort in the thought of getting a shock from an electric bill.

Anyone else?

The moose thing I will allow, because I think it's been done deliberately; the label on the pot has a picture of a moose on it.

'Alot' needs to get in the bin, though.

What is your job and where do I apply?!

We're giving flu vaccines at work at the moment and keep having issues with the system inviting what my boss refers to 'illegible patients'.

I dislike the use of 'medal' as a verb... would it have been so hard to write "we would all win medals"?

Oh. maybe you did that intentionaally. This IS pedants' corner, after all.

'Meddle', surely?

@CanadianJohn love your post!

Bad grammar and inappropriate word choice is irksome but it must be a special kind of irksome when it is your boss using it.

Electricity! Thank you!

'Gas and electric bills' makes me cringe.

Also, when did a railway station become a train station?

Anyone else irritated by the use of 'I feel' instead of 'I think'?

Just be thankful it isn't the "leccy bill"

*Electric is a common regional idiom.

See: most of the South West of England. "Gas and electric".*

Im very much in the South West and it's always been "Gas and electricity" where I am.

I'm reminded of a haberdashery I used to walk past that had a sign in the window advertising that they had 'Mixed sequence'.

Raising a severely dyslexic DS, I'm increasingly less concerned with spelling errors in the general public. I'm a somewhat lapsed pedant I suppose.

However, 'excited for' can get in the jeffing bin. As can 'sat' and 'stood' when wielded incorrectly by those who should know better.

I enjoyed @DistrictAndCircle ’s little joke.

I only ever see that on here! Is it regional? I was assuming it was (though don’t know which, as am not from the UK), along the lines of what I assume are other regional usages like ‘That needs gone’ or ‘The dog needs washed’.

The thing I find baffling, but also personally inimical, is usage of ‘side’ to mean kitchen counter or work surface. Is that regional? Again, I’ve only seen it on here. I don’t quite know why I dislike it so much.

What a beautifully crafted grumble.

Splitscreened, we call it the worktop.

It was referred to as the “kitchen side” or “side” when I was growing up in the North West. Does it come from “sideboard” perhaps? There was never a “side” anywhere else in the house, everyone knew it meant the kitchen counter. Counters were either pieces from a board game or where you paid for your goods in a shop.

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See also, 'I was sat' and 'ect'.

I have grown perversely fond of "axing" [a question]. Can't explain myself there.

Sorry to pull it up, but it annoys me when companies are referred to as a plural - ‘Pret has a chocolate moose’ not ‘have’. 🙂

'Off her own back' instead of 'own bat'.

"I was stood." Who stood you there?
"I was laying on the bed." What, eggs?

Oh, and could I just leave this box of stationary here? 😖

I miss the nouns invitation and quotation