Pedants' Paradise

[ardcarp]

Hosts: would this be more at home on Pedants' Paradise? If so, please move.

Above my pay-grade! However I was wondering whether having mentioned competetivity on Pedants' Paradise, I should have posted it here. Maybe we should do a swap?

[Serial_Apologist]

Is there such a word as competetivity?

(It was used several times by Sir Somebody-or-Other on R4's News programme just before the 0755 weather forecast today.)

I would have thought competitiveness would suffice. But, as with several other examples I have noted of late that fail to come to mind at present, two words are being made to serve a purpose where one would, I think, do.

[gurnemanz]

Is there such a word as competetivity?

(It was used several times by Sir Somebody-or-Other on R4's News programme just before the 0755 weather forecast today.)

If it exists wouldn't it be spelt "competitivity"?

[Pulcinella]

If it exists wouldn't it be spelt "competitivity"?

Indeed:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/competitivity

[Serial_Apologist]

Indeed:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/competitivity

So, presumably the capacity for competitiveness, then, as opposed to the actuality?

[Oakapple]

The T at the end of flageolet is pronounced, as is the S at the end of Louis in Robert Louis Stevenson. Both were missing in today's Time Traveller slot.

[LMcD]

The T at the end of flageolet is pronounced, as is the S at the end of Louis in Robert Louis Stevenson. Both were missing in today's Time Traveller slot.

It was thanks to Humphrey Lyttleton that I learned to pronounce the 's' in Satchmo's first name.
We're currently working our way through a 3-CD set of recordings of I'M Sorry I Haven't A Clue, which I recently purchased from a charity shop. Samantha hasn't aged a bit!

[Count Boso]

The T at the end of flageolet is pronounced, as is the S at the end of Louis in Robert Louis Stevenson. Both were missing in today's Time Traveller slot.

I'm relieved to see that the Oxford Dictionary permits us to drop the t when referring to the bean (which I refer to rather more often).

[LezLee]

On 'Hello Dolly', Louis Armstrong himself sings "This Is LouiS, Dolly"

My friends and I went to a double recording of ISIHAC in Glasgow. It was 'fall off your seat' funny - Susan Calman and Fred MacAulay were two of the players and they just gelled perfectly. I still have my purple kazoo. Just before the show, the smartly-dressed elderly gent next to me leaned over and, with a perfectly straight face, said: "I wonder if it will be Samantha or Sven tonight? "

[cat]

A news presenter just asked: "you're self-isolating yourself aren't you?"

[LeMartinPecheur]

A news presenter just asked: "you're self-isolating yourself aren't you?"

Answer: "No, the doctor self-isolated me."(*) I think we'll hear it, however daft it is to logicians/ pedants

EDIT (*) = "The doctor recommended I should self-isolate and I'm following his suggestion."

[Pulcinella]

A news presenter just asked: "you're self-isolating yourself aren't you?"

To say/ask 'You yourself are self-isolating, aren't you?' though would be OK, wouldn't it?

[oddoneout]

To say/ask 'You yourself are self-isolating, aren't you?' though would be OK, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't 'You are self-isolating?' be sufficient? I did wonder if that was what was meant, if clumsily expressed.

[Pulcinella]

Wouldn't 'You are self-isolating?' be sufficient? I did wonder if that was what was meant, if clumsily expressed.

I guess that the 'yourself' simply adds an emphasis (and possibly in this case a useful singular/plural distinction?).

[Padraig]

I guess that the 'yourself' simply adds an emphasis (and possibly in this case a useful singular/plural distinction?).

If you're Irish there's no problem with all this 'self-ness'. If not, you'll be arguing about it for a week. I, myself, am self-isolating as advised, and so is herself - she is self-isolating too. It might happen that we'll have no choice, in which case I guess we'll be isolated.