Mangled and abused words and phrases

[santaman2000]

I looked up

"site:www.bushcraftuk.com" "defiantly"

on Google. As far as I could see from the search results, there weren't many people defying something or someone.

Just looked in the dictionary and found:

[h=2]de·fi·ant[/h]&#8194; <a onmousedown="spk(this,{lk:'nx1fkx',en:'wotdau',io:'0',b:'wotd',tp:'lrl',m:'wotdau'})" href="#"></a><a target="_blank" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/D01/D0117600"><img border="0" src="http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/speaker.gif"></a>&#8194;/d&#618;&#712;fa&#618;&#601;nt/ http://www.bushcraftuk.com/help/luna/IPA_pron_key.html Show Spelled[dih-fahy-uhnt] http://www.bushcraftuk.com/help/luna/Spell_pron_key.html Show IPA
adjective characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.

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Origin:
1830&#8211;40; < French défiant, Old French, present participle of defier to defy; see -ant

Related forms de·fi·ant·ly, adverb
de·fi·ant·ness, noun
half-de·fi·ant, adjective
half-de·fi·ant·ly, adverb
non·de·fi·ant, adjective

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

That winds me up too, I have to get the bus through a rather posh area and some of the local kids dress and act like that, I would LOVE them to be punished by having to ware a picture of their parents country house round there neck with the size of the trust fund they will be living off painted on there forehead.

 

[Andy BB]

Ah - the Boulton-Paul Defiant...............

 

[bushwacker bob]

Ah - the Boulton-Paul Defiant...............

An airfix too far.

 

[Mikey P]

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

Drew, so brave... Where to start?

 

[Mikey P]

Moving to Scotland has been a real eye-opener for me in terms of dialect. I have a friend from Islay who genuinely says 'Ochaye' and 'Jings' all the time - she's brilliant!

 

[Retired Member southey]

You want to do what to children?

That winds me up too, I have to get the bus through a rather posh area and some of the local kids dress and act like that, I would LOVE them to be punished by having to ware a picture of their parents country house round there neck with the size of the trust fund they will be living off painted on there forehead.

 

[Harvestman]

Another one, and this makes me genuinely angry.

Sulfur.

Not because it is wrong. In fact it is now the correct spelling.

It used to be sulphur, but the Americans didn't like that, so they got the official spelling changed, which you can do because it is a chemical term and therefore has to have a single global spelling for use in the science of chemistry.

Surely it would have been easier to learn to spell it as sulphur, like the rest of the world had been doing quite happily for the previous hundred years or so?

 

[Biker]

Do you have to install a program on your computer to watch a TV programme? Or the other way around?

That blurred destinction chaps me off too.

I'm guilty of using "Gimme", "Gonna" and "Kinda" it seems to be less formal, but I draw the line and using gr8 to describe something as great.

About the Scottish phrases, my stepdad's from Glasgow and uses Jings a lot, certainly better than any swear word when expressing surprise.

 

[santaman2000]

Speaking of the texting abbreviations; do ya'll have personalized license plates yet?
GR8 1?
IMG8?
SK8TER?
etc.?

 

[boatman]

To say that we might need two words for a particular type of, for example, rain is to ignore the fact that some languages make more compound words than we do. German is a prime example of this and so apparently is Inuit. However do notice the English compounding process where after time words will be liked by a hyphen then later on fused together. But, the Eskimo snow is a spurious argument because they have little else to talk about in the High Arctic. In the same way it is said that our memories are far worse than in the past which is nonsense, they had less to remember then and how many actually knew three hours worth of Beowulf, for example?

 

[Mikey P]

Speaking of the texting abbreviations; do ya'll have personalized license plates yet?
GR8 1?
IMG8?
SK8TER?
etc.?

I have noticed that personalised plates are very popular in the Scottish central belt area. Does anyone know the stats?

I do enjoy some of the 'forced' contractions for plates, and I especially like (split infinitive!) to see a personalised plate on a wreck of a car! Probably worth more than the motor itself.

Back to the thread subject: does 'lol' mean 'laughs out loud', 'lots of love', 'lots of laughs'? What?

The way I see it used, I expect it should be changed to 'glm' - 'guffaws like moron'.

 

[Mikey P]

...how many actually knew three hours worth of Beowulf, for example?

Seamus Heaney is going to track you down and get medieval on your bottom for that.

 

[Wayland]

Snip> how many actually knew three hours worth of Beowulf, for example?

I know three that can tell it in modern English and one that can do it in Old English/Anglo Saxon.

It depends what circles you move in...

 

[bushwacker bob]

I know three that can tell it in modern English and one that can do it in Old English/Anglo Saxon.

It depends what circles you move in...

Retentive ones?

 

[Wayland]

I guess you might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

 

[Toddy]

Saw the registration number on a car in the supermarket carpark yesterday. D1E TN


Personalised numberplates are commonplace though. Usually someones initials. Several of my neighbours have those, but the teenage girls get them when Daddy buys their first car and just hang onto the registration when they get a new one.

cheers,
M

 

[British Red]

Seamus Heaney is going to track you down and get medieval on your bottom for that.

Why?

What has a donkey ever done to him? Pulp fiction, pliers and blowtorches not withstanding, I suspect the word is ****. There were no quadrupeds involved unless you count the gimp!

<Chuckle>

The swear filter gets the correct spelling!

 

[Lister]

Another one, and this makes me genuinely angry.

Sulfur.

Not because it is wrong. In fact it is now the correct spelling.

It used to be sulphur, but the Americans didn't like that, so they got the official spelling changed, which you can do because it is a chemical term and therefore has to have a single global spelling for use in the science of chemistry.

Surely it would have been easier to learn to spell it as sulphur, like the rest of the world had been doing quite happily for the previous hundred years or so?

Americans bastardising the English language in general does my head in.

 

[Hoodoo]

Americans bastardising the English language in general does my head in.

Look on the bright side. You could be speaking German as your first language. :evilangel: