Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ahinton]

It seems to have been anti-semantic.

Ah; that could explain a lot!

[P. G. Tipps]

Yes I know, but that seems to me a nonsensical suggestion. "It's political correctness gone mad!"

'It's political correctness gone mad!'

A quite absurd phrase.

It suggests that PCness was, at one time, sane.

[P. G. Tipps]

I see a strange word recently used by the incomparably hyperbolic President Donald Trump .. 'bigly' ... is already in use on the BBC website.

For those like myself who readily confess to 'having a thing' about this constant Americanis(z)ation of what is curiously termed 'British English' there promises to be an interesting programme on R4 at 10.30 tomorrow morning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qxd02

However, the very title of the programme already confirms my very worst fears ...

[vinteuil]

I see a strange word recently used by the incomparably hyperbolic President Donald Trump .. 'bigly' ... is already in use on the BBC website.

... lest we forget - "A Noble Spirit Embiggens The Smallest Man"

[french frank]

I see a strange word recently used by the incomparably hyperbolic President Donald Trump .. 'bigly' ... is already in use on the BBC website.

For those like myself who readily confess to 'having a thing' about this constant Americanis(z)ation of what is curiously termed 'British English' there promises to be an interesting programme on R4 at 10.30 tomorrow morning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qxd02

However, the very title of the programme already confirms my very worst fears ...

It may not even have existed when Trump 'said' it: it does now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37483869

[jean]

...'bigly' ... is already in use on the BBC website...

It's being discussed, but it's not being used on the BBC website any more than you're using it here.

[Richard Tarleton]

... lest we forget - "A Noble Spirit Embiggens The Smallest Man"

A cromulent word indeed

[french frank]

It's being discussed, but it's not being used on the BBC website any more than you're using it here.

It was used in a headline - not on the article but as a teaser.

Edit: Looks like it's been removed?

[P. G. Tipps]

It was used in a headline - not on the article but as a teaser.

Edit: Looks like it's been removed?

Yes it was ... and it has! ...

[jean]

I wondered if the mishearing of big league as bigly might owe something to the American tendency to stress final syllables of phrases less than we do - give a damn, Little Rock - but Americans seem as confused about this meme (for that's what it is!) as we are, and they're used to those stress patterns.

[vinteuil]

I wondered if the mishearing of big league as bigly might owe something to the American tendency to stress final syllables of phrases less than we do - give a damn, Little Rock - but Americans seem as confused about this meme (for that's what it is!) as we are, and they're used to those stress patterns.

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... and if it was big league - interesting that the phrase has moved from being a noun - to an adjective - and finally (here) to an adverb.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dictionary-expert-bigly-is-actually-933072

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[Bryn]

Seeing is believing?

[jean]

...and finally (here) to an adverb.

I think you mean post-verbal adjunct (thanks Bryn).

[P. G. Tipps]

Whatever he actually did say 'bigly' does sound typically Trumpian ?.

After all Trump also did say 'braggadocious'.

However, we are informed by some that both are genuine if old-fashioned English words, a bit like 'gotten'.

Intriguing!

[P. G. Tipps]

I see 'bigly' is now back in that headline on the first page of the BBC News website ...