A Viscous attack # 2

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Is it okay for me to start a second thread of the highly entertaining viscous attack? Couldn’t see a sequel and don’t want to step foot on anyone’s toes
edited to add: I’m Cattery but with a name change x

Thank you - you've explained it better than I did! I did wonder if it was an autocorrect, but it still amused me.

I didn't realise the origins, so thank you for that too.

i fully admit I’m perplexed regarding the barm/bam pottery

my auntie says ‘Tadge’ I did tell her after hearing it hundreds of times ‘It’s Tad’ but it was ignored so ‘Tadge’ lives on 🤣

Update everyone: I’ve just seen “proofen” for proven. How did that even pass the autocorrect??

I see barmy for balmy fairly often. The origin of barmy is like the the barm in barm cake, which isn't a cake.

I stand corrected on ‘Tadge’ it has the same meaning as ‘Tad’, sorry auntie 🤣

@PendantScorner I had a chip barm in Blackpool once, very nice too. We call them ‘Baps’ down here.

A chip butty is delicious. I say bap or roll. A bap is roundish and quite floury and a roll is oval and more crusty.

Words fail me! 😆

I wonder if that's because the yeast makes a barm?

Yes, 'late 15th century (in the sense ‘frothy’): from barm + -y.' Barm is the froth from yeast.

Agree with the comments about people not reading much nowadays.

I've just seen Nigel Farage described as 'exhillerating' on another thread. Is that even a word?

@HopeSpringsInfernal even of that was spelled correctly he is not !

Well no, he isn't

Meant IF 😡

He’s a lot of things but exhilarating isn’t one 🤷‍♀️

Many threads on Keir Starmer.
Written "Kier" nearly every time.

There's an Angela Raynor one.

This thread is a mindfield.

I've just seen "it was nice jesture" on a FB post. Better than jester, I suppose. But depressing.

I remember one of the first FB howlers I saw was “gawjus”. I still shudder at the memory

I shudder at the word gorgeous. It gets used too often, usually to describe something that's anything but.

I'm the same with "unique".
As in "I want a unique baby name". No you don't, you want something unusual.

I'm like that about the word "iconic" (usually used to mean "quite well-known").

Also "stunning" to mean "quite nice".

@Cathandkin , they don't say unique. It's 'I want a very unique baby name', or 'I want a more unique baby name'. Then the names they have shortlisted follows:
Isla, Lily, Ella .... with the middle name Grace, Rose or May. The middle name is always a family name.