A co-worker of mine speaks with a horrendous Australian twang because she went travelling there for 6 months (20 years ago). She also has a really poor grasp of specifically/pacifically.
Now we've all failed our year 6 SATS, is there any news of the new CB? Some false news would do. Anything to spare us from grammar!
I just noticed that as well, and when I typed it in again predictive text has changed it from one word to two words.
Saints have been linked with a double swoop for Davide Astori and Jim Magilton who, rumour has it, has just been sacked by Ipswich
Glenda is a goldmine of verbal grammatical errors, "blimp" instead of "blip" is my personal favourite...
HR? Harry Redknapp. Knows a thing or two. Perhaps I mis-read your original post as I'm surprised that you're surprised by my surprise ... Anyway, yeah, we seem to agree. Gaston was a square peg for a round hole. No-one's fault, and like you I was very disappointed. He was always seemed like an eager to please puppy trying too hard, but I did like the guy. I would have hoped he would say good things about the club, and he evidently did, so another brownie point for Gaston! Let's hope if we need this particular Uruguayan he is fit to play!
'Early doors'* instead of 'early days' has passed into common speech (at least in the football world). *Apparently a theatre term for paying extra to get in early and choose a good seat. 1st recorded 1877. Who knew?
I particularly dislike the phrase 'back to winning ways'. Makes it sound as if every team's default position is to win, when on any given day only an absolute maximum of 50% of clubs can win.
Also the name of a rather wonderful comedy based around the regulars in a pub and starring Craig Cash. Vin
We would appear to be in good company. This is part of an article published in today's Times. So, how you doing? Good? Well the problem is, is the airplane’s grounded so how about we take the railroad as alternate transportation? If you are driven to rage by the above paragraph, you are unlikely to enjoy the rest of this article. A linguist has published a book saying that Americanisms are not only tolerable but sometimes even purer forms of British English. In English Grammar: Your Questions Answered, Michael McCarthy says that the modern wave of portmanteaux such as “frenemy” and “remoaner” fits into an august tradition that goes back via “smog” (smoke and fog, first seen in 1905) to the “gloomth” (gloom and warmth) of the gothic buildings in Horace Walpole’s 18th century novels. “They” is fine as a singular neuter pronoun where writing “he or she” would be too cumbersome — just ask the Victorian art critic John Ruskin. Calling people “yourself” — as in “I would like to invite Jane and yourself to join us for lunch” — is really a very old-fashioned form of politeness. The distinction between “can” and “may” is largely obsolete, expressions such as “Monday through Friday” have roots stretching back to Georgian literature, and nouns such as “action” are welcome to become verbs — after all, alibi started out as an adverb in Latin. Professor McCarthy is even prepared to absolve people who use less rather than fewer. “Supermarkets have been known to change their signs from ‘Five items or less’ to ‘Five items or fewer’, probably after protests from purists, but only the grammarian’s equivalent of King Cnut would try to turn back the tide on this one,” he wrote. Professor McCarthy says some phrases irk him. “‘Between you and I’ comes from old-fashioned school teachers telling children that ‘me’ is an impolite word or is a sign of bad grammar,” he writes. “That’s nonsense.”
