Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[jean]

I can only see it enclosed in inverted commas.

Which means, as I said earlier, that the BBC are no more using it than you are.

[vinteuil]

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

... there weren't no sich animal when I were a lad - but I see that nous avons changé tout cela since my day.

If I nipped up in to the loft and blew the dust off of my copies of Syntactic Structures and Aspects of the Theory of Syntax I might at least drag myself into the 1970s - but I'm not sure I'm brave enough...

[P. G. Tipps]

I can only see it enclosed in inverted commas.

Which means, as I said earlier, that the BBC are no more using it than you are.

I can only assume, therefore, that you are looking at a different page from me ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/0

[jean]

I was.

On the one you link to, the word doesn't occur at all.

[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.

A comment on the site Bryn linked to makes the same point:

Actually, thinking about it, the other idiosyncracy of Trump’s pronunciation is the stress pattern. Where an adjectival use would naturally (in my dialect) have stress on both words (“That is a BIG LEAGUE fastball”), Trump de-stresses league to the point where it sounds like a clitic or even a suffix (“They are ripping us BIGleague”). So league is short and unstressed and even more like -ly.

[P. G. Tipps]

I was.

On the one you link to, the word doesn't occur at all.

It does on my screen and I strongly suspect it does on those belonging to everyone else as well ... ?

The headline reads .. 'If young people voted bigly, would it change everything ?'

[vinteuil]

A comment on the site Bryn linked to makes the same point:

Actually, thinking about it, the other idiosyncracy of Trump’s pronunciation is the stress pattern. Where an adjectival use would naturally (in my dialect) have stress on both words (“That is a BIG LEAGUE fastball”), Trump de-stresses league to the point where it sounds like a clitic or even a suffix (“They are ripping us BIGleague”). So league is short and unstressed and even more like -ly.

... odd that someone who knows their clitics can't spell idiosyncrasy

[jean]

Idiosyncracy is not a misspelling, it's a completely different word - it means rule by idiots, together.

[vinteuil]

Idiosyncracy is a completely different word - it means rule by idiots, together.

... naughty, jean, naughty

[jean]

It does on my screen and I strongly suspect it does on those belonging to everyone else as well ... ?

The headline reads .. 'If young people voted bigly, would it change everything ?'

I suspect you haven't looked for a while. Now, it's all about Assange.

[P. G. Tipps]

I suspect you haven't looked for a while. Now, it's all about Assange.

I suspect you are just being very silly ...

I suppose one could term it as a 'sub-headline' but, then again, I never claimed it is the main headline.

I simply said it is on the website's first page. It still is, though as french frank correctly observed it mysteriously disappeared for a short period.

Maybe someone at the BBC is enjoying this little debate as much as we are ... ?

[french frank]

Screenshot taken a few minutes ago. The interesting point being not whether Trump said 'bigly' or 'big league' but that someone at the BBC immediately leapt on to it and used in a completely unrelated context:

[french frank]

According to the OED the adverb 'bigly' means:

'Loudly, boastfully; proudly, haughtily, pompously'

Most recent example:

1927 E. Thompson Indian Day xvii. 144 The same students who talked bigly among themselves of ‘Douglas’ and ‘Alden’ and ‘Jacks’.

It's particularly used with verbs of talking speaking.

[Political posts removed]

[P. G. Tipps]

According to the OED the adverb 'bigly' means:

'Loudly, boastfully; proudly, haughtily, pompously'

Most recent example:

1927 E. Thompson Indian Day xvii. 144 The same students who talked bigly among themselves of ‘Douglas’ and ‘Alden’ and ‘Jacks’.

It's particularly used with verbs of talking speaking.

[Political posts removed]

[Apologies, I should know better by now.]

As for 'bigly' the word certainly seems to fit the controversial figure under some discussion here. Absolutely perfect.

If he didn't say it he should have done.

[jean]

That particular example looks to me like a hypercorrection of the more usual 'talk big'.