HEAR BLOODY HEAR !! and if I hear one more reference to a group (men and women usually) as 'you guys' - I will throw up!
One minute you hate England next you love it. A ball? I have never called it that and neither has my father who is no doubt older than you, so i would suggest the word prom has being around for a long while.
When have I ever said "I hate England"? Go on, find me the comment when I said that and again, find me the comment when I said "I Love England". It's pretty good going to attribute 2 quotes to me and be 100% wrong. Kudos, or in a term you probably understand, massive props, blood. I hate the Americanisation of the world and in particular them changing our language. There, I said that and you can quote me. And it really ****ing hasnt, even Wiki says useage in England has only changed due to US tv shows.
R/E prom . back in the 70s it was a school leaving party IF anything . IF anyone had turned up in a stupid suit they would have got a good kicking for being a ponce.. Should have stayed in idiot land USA Also. When I was at school we all wanted motorbikes or scooters , cars where for old folk ... Kids nowadays are a bunch of boring bastards ...
You can see Assem and Ehab in the front row at the Squash, in the pic on this site: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon...pts-Ashour-ousts-World-number--Willstrop.aspx
Bit of a 'hole' in this story (or more than one) 1. It has been widely reported that the Allams are in London during this weekend at the National Squash Tournament - so how can they be interviewing this weekend? 2. Don't they have to conclude Nick Barmby's appeal first? 3. As the Allams have kept everything else close to their chests, would they start talking about certain players futures (all of whom are still under contract) and their activities about a new manager to members of the public effectively leaking out their plans? Should we forward this thread for the Booker Light Fiction Prize?
Your all to busy playing xbox / playstation when you should be invading the nearest seaside town on a weekend .. Need to being back mods n rockers
"Our" language originated from the invaders who were Anglo/Saxon/jute tribes from northern GERMANY & Denmark. The English language has since been exported worldwide and with America having around 300m speakers compared to our roughly 70m, you'd be hard-pressed to call it ours anymore, if it ever was. You don't own language, it evolves or dies (like Cornish)..
Will this kid or Cap'n Ehab be suspended pending an internal inquiry? Will either lose their jobs? It's a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma on the front seat of a De Lorean lookalike. Loose lips sink ships Cap'n. DJ likes young chix. Time will tell.
The Americans speak pre-Hugenot English. Their spellings and terms (e.g. pants instead of trousers etc) are basically Lincolnshire English pre 16/1700s!
Whilst I'm on here and enjoying a very nice coffee and tuna mayo (Americanism... sic) & Sweetcorn panini in Planet Coffee, Newland Ave, can I ask kindly that whatever your views on the Allams (and I'm with OLM on this one) can we please cut out the '******s' and 'morons' rhetoric? Someone else on the board keeps making an issue of their race/ethnicity/country of origin which is equally stupid. Look, they saved the club (they didn't have to) and made (in my humble view) a big mistake with the way they've handled Nick's tenure. Nick will be back one day, I am pretty certain of it, but let's move on for now? If someone saved your life but couldn't follow up with a lift home would you call them a ****** and a moron? Let's just debate the issues...
The Lexis is due to two dictionaries being published at the same time I believe, the Johnson one in England, and whatever the American one was. Before that you could just spell things however you wanted. American is not just pre-hugenot though - there has been other changes - I think Spanish has changed the word stress, hence us having a deFENCE, whereas they have a DEfence.
Agreed and well pointed out Bernstein Tiger, in my defense (sic) I was just trying to keep simple - (I have taught American studies but wanted to keep it light!)...anyway now onto another coffee and a New York Style cheesecake...
