Room 101 - what single aspect of modern life should be consigned to oblivion?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The use of the word 'egregious'.
I first noticed it a couple of months ago and now it is everywhere.

However, there is an interesting sidelight. From the OED:-

adjective

1. outstandingly bad; shocking: egregious abuses of copyright


2. archaic: remarkably good.

Origin: mid 16th century (in egregious (sense 2)): from Latin egregius 'illustrious', literally 'standing out from the flock', from ex-'out' + grex, greg-'flock'. Sense 1 (late 16th century) probably arose as an ironical use

Wicked!

[ahinton]

Wicked!

Returning swiftly to the thread topic (ahem) - what about the Sunday Sun?

[Paul Sherratt]

> what about the Sunday Sun?

Is it eclectic ?

[Nick Armstrong]

> what about the Sunday Sun?

Is it eclectic ?

No, emetic....

[mercia]

The use of the word 'egregious'.
I first noticed it a couple of months ago and now it is everywhere

.......... as is the word ubiquitous ................

[amateur51]

.......... as is the word ubiquitous ................

[Serial_Apologist]

ubiquitous is... to, er, be.... ubiquitous

[kernelbogey]

[...] bathrooms blocked by spouses, etc. etc. etc)

How many spouses?

[Don Petter]

Galvanised steel, filled from the copper!

Indeed! Friday night was bath night, and it was a lot warmer in the kitchen in front of the fire, but a galvanised finish is not kind to an infant bottom.

[Flosshilde]

The thing that worries me is not the tub in the kitchen. My late mother, born in 1889, told me that the three girls would fight to go first as the bathwater was just topped up for the ones who followed. Ugh.
They were children, of course

Sally, I was born in 1950 & as a child would have to use the same bathwater as my brothers (or brother - I was 2nd eldest, so I only had one user before me). We had a bathroom with hot & cold running water. I also had my brother's clothes handed down (which caused problems as he went to a differfent secondary school).

[Roehre]

How many spouses?

after each other or at one and the same time

[handsomefortune]

The simpering ninnies who do the inteviews in the Met(tropolitan Opera)

what a relief to read this! from fleeting glimpses accidentally heard, i had supposed that some r3 listeners were actually enjoying the nauseating style of interview .... it's not quite gross enough to be comedy ...but very nearly is. i bet those particular americans don't refer to a 'bathtub' .... they sound like they bathe in a jacuzzi of molten chocolate truffle, perhaps accompanied by a favourite pedigree minature dog/s.

[Ferretfancy]

I'm sure that I'm not the only one that would be happy never to hear another word about the Oscars

[EdgeleyRob]

The classical brit awards

[teamsaint]

The simpering ninnies who do the inteviews in the Met(tropolitan Opera)

what a relief to read this! from fleeting glimpses accidentally heard, i had supposed that some r3 listeners were actually enjoying the nauseating style of interview .... it's not quite gross enough to be comedy ...but very nearly is. i bet those particular americans don't refer to a 'bathtub' .... they sound like they bathe in a jacuzzi of molten chocolate truffle, perhaps accompanied by a favourite pedigree minature dog/s.

I don't hear enough live music presented from america to make a fair judgement, but it seems every time i do it's like listening to music introduced by Frasier or Niles !!Maker Raffers look like a hard hitting investigative journalist. No doubt I just pick up on an unrepresentative selection though !!