Pedants' Paradise

[LMcD]

Ladies, Gentlemen and Non-Gendered persons please give it up for...


...the OED:

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/04/give-it-up.html

A very informative article - thank you! I've decided to give up on Radio 3 Breakfast.

[kernelbogey]

This entertaining Guardian review of The British Invasion of American English by Ben Yagoda should bring joy to the heart of any pedant this morning.

[smittims]

That's a new one on me. The only source I can think of is 'let us offer up our praise and thanks...'

'Up' has many meanings unconnected with verticality. 'Finished up, washed up, I met up with Mrs. Johnson, Blazes Boylan is getting it up (well,that may have a vertical connotation)..)

[Old Grumpy]

'Let's give it up for (name of performer or whoever)' - give up what, precisely?

Ladies, Gentlemen and Non-Gendered persons please give it up for...


...the OED:

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/04/give-it-up.html

[LMcD]

"Please be upstanding"

I supose the opposite would be "please be downsitting"

'Let's give it up for (name of performer or whoever)' - give up what, precisely?

[James Wonnacott]

"Please be upstanding"

I supose the opposite would be "please be downsitting"

[Pulcinella]

How do you use only one side of the foil?

Make it into a Möbius strip?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Möbius_strip

[James Wonnacott]

How do you use only one side of the foil?

Not sure, but if you can find a way it should last twice as long.

[french frank]

How do you use only one side of the foil?

[oddoneout]

I think that's just usage. We're used to 'you're free' but not to 'you're too.'

But to return to ovens and things to put in them, I unwrapped a new roll of baking foil and was told 'Use the non-shiny side'.

So, why have a shiny side? I defied augury and used it, as I always do. The heavens did not fall.

I've always used the shiny side when the purpose is to line a baking sheet - just I think an instinctive idea that shiny means less likely to stick.
But then there is this

Either side of the foil can be used to place food on, unless you are using Bacofoil^® The Non-Stick Kitchen Foil, then the food should be placed on the non shiny side side, as this is the side that is coated with a food safe silicon to stop food from sticking.

Apparently the dull side up argument is that physics says that the shiny side reflects the heat which isn't what you want when cooking something. Millions seem to have managed over the decades though, despite doing it "wrong".
The dull side/shiny side is to do with the manufacturing process I think.

[smittims]

I think that's just usage. We're used to 'you're free' but not to 'you're too.'

But to return to ovens and things to put in them, I unwrapped a new roll of baking foil and was told 'Use the non-shiny side'.

So, why have a shiny side? I defied augury and used it, as I always do. The heavens did not fall.

[Pulcinella]

A query more than a bit of pedantry.
Why does the contraction you're not work here (it might have been phone autocorrect having its wicked way.)?

I'm free tomorrow and I hope you're too.

We'd have to say:
I'm free tomorrow and I hope you are too
or
I'm free tomorrow and I hope you're free too
wouldn't we?

[LMcD]

Unwrap contents of pack and stand in pan of boiling water.

Wiltshire Farm Foods for masochists?

[Serial_Apologist]

Hmm, don't know what I stand on this - I'll need to mullet over

[oddoneout]

The Oven instructions for M&S Classic mince pies.

Preheat oven. Remove carton and plastic tray. Do not remove from foil cases and place on baking tray. Do not reheat.

I'm ok with leaving them in their foil cases (until I want to eat one), but why can't I put them on a baking tray?
What am I supposed to do with them?

So why put the oven on?