Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ahinton]

Could be a variant of suicidiality?

It was a typo for it; I heard the piece on the programme myself and it was about shortcomings in diagnosis of Asperger's / autism and the like, in which the interviewees were first a mother of somneone who'd had to wait years for such a diagnosis and then Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen.

[jean]

Just pretending I thought it was intentional.

[Nick Armstrong]

"It is what it is"

[jean]

Are you equally upset by I Am that I Am (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה, )?

I quite like We are where we are.

[french frank]

I quite like We are where we are.

I've now and again used 'It is what it is' in various contexts, under the impression that it was a phrase I had invented to put an argument. I do realise now that many people must have come up with the same original idea

[teamsaint]

I've now and again used 'It is what it is' in various contexts, under the impression that it was a phrase I had invented to put an argument. I do realise now that many people must have come up with the same original idea

IIRC back to O level, don't our French chums do this sort of phrase rather better, and in somewhat bewildering fashion,?

( mind your C's and Q's).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Hmmm - not so sure about this one, even if only becase I imagine that "instrumentalist" would be as likely to have that effect on you or most other people...

Is a vocalist a singer who can't manage without a microphone?

[Roehre]

Is a vocalist a singer who can't manage without a microphone?

My inclination is to think that a vocalist is a singer who cannot sing....

[ahinton]

"...with Katie Derham"...

I mightn't mind quite so much if it was the Great British Switch-off, but...

[ahinton]

Is a vocalist a singer who can't manage without a microphone?

If so, why would an "instrumentalist" be something different, do you suppose?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If so, why would an "instrumentalist" be something different, do you suppose?

That's simple. An instrumentalist can be a player of an musical instrument. Singer and vocalist are less broad terms.

[Keraulophone]

Could be a variant of suicidiality?

Typo mea culpa.

[P. G. Tipps]

"It is what it is"

... and not forgetting the modest, self-effacing ... 'I suppose I'm not really that popular with some people 'cos I like to tell it as it is'.

[Serial_Apologist]

Serve Ike All; and the related Umby like all.

I feel so sorry for women, having such mis-pronounceable organs!

[ahinton]

Serve Ike All; and the related Umby like all.

I feel so sorry for women, having such mis-pronounceable organs!

At least you spared us "Ike" spelt "Icke", which might not have been accepted as the recent self-admitted Keraulophoic typo!

Anyway, wasn't l'Umby a composer?...