Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[kernelbogey]

And where does the increasingly frequent 'lead' (as the past tense of 'to lead') come from? Other than an aberrant analogy with 'to read/read' and the homophone lead=plumbum.

I have always assumed this is a fault of predictive text

[Rjw]

My father watches the news, endlessly, he's 95.

I have been looking after him, so I have had to suffer This hour.

The news this hour is......I
Well it seems to be the same as the news that hour.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Other than an aberrant analogy with 'to read/read' and the homophone lead=plumbum.

We had a Latin teacher at school, whose nickname was Plumbum, on account of his ponderous delivery.

[LMcD]

We had a Latin teacher at school, whose nickname was Plumbum, on account of his ponderous delivery.

There's one Latin word the meaning of which I've never forgotten thanks to our teacher who said, 'Remember, the burden is a0lways on us'.

[gurnemanz]

I was on the AllMusic site and when the mouse pointer went over the CD's cover image a pop-up message told me "click to embiggen". I'm not in principle against neologisms. Even if I don't much like them I can often see why they exist. I can see no reason for "embiggen".

[Bryn]

I was on the AllMusic site and when the mouse pointer went over the CD's cover image a pop-up message told me "click to embiggen". I'm not in principle against neologisms. Even if I don't much like them I can often see why they exist. I can see no reason for "embiggen".

A distinct flavour of Trumpism about it.

[cloughie]

I was on the AllMusic site and when the mouse pointer went over the CD's cover image a pop-up message told me "click to embiggen". I'm not in principle against neologisms. Even if I don't much like them I can often see why they exist. I can see no reason for "embiggen".

Is that like being in the pasty shop and asking for one of ‘embiggens?

[Serial_Apologist]

A distinct flavour of Trumpism about it.

Another example of someone who bigs himself up.

[subcontrabass]

A distinct flavour of Trumpism about it.

Apparently comes from The Simpsons and was invented in 1996.

[cloughie]

I don’t know if it has come up before on this thread but ‘reimagine’ really annoys me.

[LMcD]

Algorithm

[cloughie]

Algorithm

criteria - why is it so often treated as a singular noun?

[LMcD]

criteria - why is it so often treated as a singular noun?

'cos the media says that's what the data suggests.

[Bryn]

'cos the media says that's what the data suggests.

Ouch!

[LMcD]

Ouch!

Between yew and eye*, it's only a matter of thyme before weir tolled that it's all them** algorithms what is coresing the deklein in the standard of ritten English, espeshally speling.
* or should it be 'U and mi'?
** or should it be 'all THEY algorithms'?