A Viscous attack # 2

[Catpiece]

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

Probably decorated in a tasteful Farrow & Ball palate of soft plaster pink and grey.

(Seen on a lifestyle article describing a restaurant.)

Spotted today, 'the guilded age'

That's a good one!

It's a new one for me

I've just seen 'that's part of the course'. I am assuming from context that 'par for the course' was meant.

Hi all. I’m just reading that someone is tea-total. Does that mean lots of tea is consumed? I wonder…🤔

@Catpiece i know someone who is ‘Soba’ 🤣

@CalzoneOnLegs 😱😱😱

Being somewhat of a pedant myself, I still cringe at my lifelong error and misunderstanding about the word Albeit. I always pronounced it as ‘all bite’ and believed it to be a Latin word. I often used it both spoken and written, as well as sometimes also using the phrase ‘all be it’ not realising they were the same. One day only a few years ago I googled the word to double check its etymology and was absolutely floored to discover how wrong I’d been, and still blush at the times I must have mispronounced the word over the past fifty years.

Mind you I do have a track record, as a child I read a book out loud to my older brother - it described a character as the ‘Belle of the ball’ and he still laughs about me describing her as ‘the belly of the ball’.
Being well-read doesn’t always help!

“…someone who didn’t pull their wait. “

Didn’t pull their…what?

I guess a restaurant could be (just about) forgiven for not knowing the difference between a palate and a palette. Likewise, @Vroomfondleswaistcoat, it's part of the course with pretentious eateries 😉

Hope that Farrow & Ball paint tasted good!

In the subject line of an email from Red, one of Hearst's magazines - "Cool Brittania".

The spell checker on here flags it up. Hasn't Red got a spell checker? Or literate staff?

Yes, that's a strange one, isn't it?
It's funny how often Britain is incorrectly spelled as well.

A few years ago, while working in a healthcare related field, I received a particularly glorious work email, sent to all staff, advising us on how best to support brave nurses heroically ‘working through their long shits’.

I felt strongly the most heroic option would have been for them to excuse themselves in such circumstances.

😂
Freudian!

@Chersfrozenface I have to confess I thought that was correct, it’s actually one ‘t’ and 2 ‘nn’s. I didnt know that ! 🙈

I saw 'Maddona' on the BBC site.

It's one t and 2 ns in Britannia, and two ts and one n in Brittany.

I have to remember the spelling of Britannia and then that Brittany is the other way round in order to Google the ferry company!

@Chersfrozenface im so confused right now 🤣

the song title is one t and two nn’s , is that correct ?

Song title? As in "Rule, Britannia"?

If so, yes, one t and two nn’s.

@Chersfrozenface yes my brain spark has ignited now, so just because Britain Is Britannia doesn’t make Britain have an extra T

thank you 🥴

ETA it’s a word that doesn’t really look ‘wrong’ like some words do, if you see what I mean ? (when it had two T’s)

As an antidote I suppose you could call it, (please correct if not) I have just seen ‘blandishments’ used, what a wonderful word that is ❤️

Britain comes, via the Old French Bretaigne and Middle English Breteyne, from the Latin Britannia~Brittania, an adaptation of the Common Brittonic name for the island, *Pritanī.

In the period of the Roman empire the Latin word was usually spelled with one t and two nns. That's generally what is in the texts that survived, so is the spelling used in the centuries since.

Brittany also comes from the French and English origins. It was often called Little Britain to distinguish it from the larger island, which was called Great Britain. 'Great' here means 'large', as it did until very recently.

Seen on MN today:

”share your ideal intinerary”
”do you have seperate finances?”

@KhaleesiLikeSundayMorning flummoxed !