Or a context error. To me "defiantly" would mean someone did something in an attempt to "defy" someone.
Mangled and abused words and phrases
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Or a context error. To me "defiantly" would mean someone did something in an attempt to "defy" someone.
I hate the lazy and inappropriate use of "Amazing".
The Jubilee Flotilla down the Thames was a good example; every other pundit kept churning the word out!
The Jubilee Flotilla down the Thames was a good example; every other pundit kept churning the word out!
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i know mate, i was more commenting on the idea of trusting a signwriter to get things right, american english being the default setting on most software (cheers bill) is probably to blame for more spelling errors over here than anything else
maybe on your side of the pond it is, but "i'm lovin' it" certainly wasn't a common phrase over here 'til maccie d's made it so
When my kids were younger, the youngest in particular - although to a lesser extent the others too - used to say "like" several times each sentence. Picking them up on it didn't work. However, after a while I just used to hold up a hand with a finger for each time they said "like". At first they didn't twig, but after a few times they picked up on it, and it used to drive them mad, particularly if they were with friends! But it worked
rain, mizzle, clag, downpour, cloudburst, precipitation, drizzle do for a start?
White working/middle class kids talking like black gangsters is referred to as 'Jafakin' (as in Fake Jamaican). Ayyyyyye!
And the whole walking-around-with-hands-down-pants thing is to do with the increased prevalence of sexually transmitted infections. I believe some of them can be quite itchy.
'scuse me being pedantic, but McDonald is Irish, MacDonald is Scottish.
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Haha! I was thinking more down the lines of "The Scottish Play".
Blimey! How could I forget this one! When you look in any online or paper catalogue (not 'catalog') for outdoor trousers and they are referred to as 'pant' singular. As in "this is our brand new outdoor pant for all activities".
Pant? My dog does that. Pant? Do I only get one leg? I want both. Pants? Oh, I see! Like trousers? So why didn't you &@£**! say so, then?
You know who you are, Patagonia, North Face, Mountain Hardware, etc. You should be ashamed.
Pant? My dog does that. Pant? Do I only get one leg? I want both. Pants? Oh, I see! Like trousers? So why didn't you &@£**! say so, then?
You know who you are, Patagonia, North Face, Mountain Hardware, etc. You should be ashamed.
Understood. But if not for McDonald's commercials, some other television program or movie would likely have brought it. The point is McDonald's didn't invent the phrase; that would be a rarity in advertising as they usually take their cues from the pop culture of their intended market. Although there are some notable exceptions such as the old lady asking, "Where's the beef!?" in the burger commercials from the 1960s.
Raining
stoatin', dreich, smirr, spitting, teeming, drookit, wringing wet, lashing, bucketing, haar.............and if it all comes down you maun end up drookit and ploutering through the glaur 
Aren't words fun ?
cheers,
Toddy
That's another evolution. When I was a kid dogs didn't "pant", they "hasseled." Though that definition of hassle is in my older dictionary (circa 1965) it's been removed from modern ones and rarely heard even among younger dog breeders and vets now.
.............and if it all comes down you maun end up drookit and ploutering through the glaur
already? i've only just finished paying off the last one
Raining
Aren't words fun ?
cheers,
Toddy
True Mary but many of those words are adjectives (or used as such) to describe rain and are used to also describe many other things as well. They're not a proper word soley naming a type of rain.
now toddy words and especially frases facinate me due to many modern frases come from navel terms
for instantance
posh
cant swing a cat in here
let the cat out the bag
dont spill the beens
and there are many more but i just cant think of them right now. Now the reason for the fasination is that i love navel history
for instantance
posh
cant swing a cat in here
let the cat out the bag
dont spill the beens
and there are many more but i just cant think of them right now. Now the reason for the fasination is that i love navel history
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