Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[eighthobstruction]

....am I allowed to say - this thread is a bit of a circus....

[Bryn]

... tho' some prefer toves. Slithy or otherwise

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Then there are Tove's Moomins.

[ahinton]

Then there are Tove's Moomins.

Not to mention "Du wunderlische Tove!"...

[Serial_Apologist]

... tho' some prefer toves. Slithy or otherwise

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I didn't think you could be Toven!

[Padraig]

Thereafter troves lie buried until the late 20th c. when they are dug up a couple of times in American publications. The OED article was updated in 2022 and seemingly found nothing then from this veritable trove of new examples.

Serendipity strikes again. I read this an hour ago in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, 2013 USA

" . . .well, you heard him just now. Perfect trove of information about New York history - dates, names, genealogies."

p 702 paperback ed

[french frank]

Serendipity strikes again. I read this an hour ago in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, 2013 USA

" . . .well, you heard him just now. Perfect trove of information about New York history - dates, names, genealogies."

p 702 paperback ed

American again - so, as we know, language usage is very contagious when British people, esp writers/journalists, read and hear so much (more) American culture. We assimilate it very quickly and unwittingly. And I assume much more slowly within the US itself.

[Pulcinella]

American again - so, as we know, language usage is very contagious when British people, esp writers/journalists, read and hear so much (more) American culture. We assimilate it very quickly and unwittingly. And I assume much more slowly within the US itself.

My 11th edition Merriam-Webster dictionary says: short for treasure trove; it gives a date 1888 (but not where it was used).

[vinteuil]

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... 'presser' (for 'press conference'). On the BBC News website today -

"Ryan Reynolds gatecrashes post-match presser for player's shirt"

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[vinteuil]

...."trove" is fine....walk on ....

... another trove - in The Times today :

"Russia has all but given up any hope of taking over the Baltic States for the foreseeable future, according to a leaked trove of purported Kremlin documents, as US officials said a long-anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive could begin as soon as next week"

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[Serial_Apologist]

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... 'presser' (for 'press conference'). On the BBC News website today -

"Ryan Reynolds gatecrashes post-match presser for player's shirt"

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That gave my trousers quite a crease!

[kernelbogey]

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... 'presser' (for 'press conference'). On the BBC News website today -

"Ryan Reynolds gatecrashes post-match presser for player's shirt"

'Four syllables bad, two syllables good'...?

[french frank]

'Four syllables bad, two syllables good'...?

[eighthobstruction]

....of interest to someone perhaps....https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kgm7 ....perhaps as a beginning to new research [as in my case]

[Serial_Apologist]

Unlikable.

Strangely enough () my American spellcheck is "okay" with this word, which I am hearing more and more often on TV and radio these past few months.

Unlike refers to dissimilarity rather than to taste or value judgement. Surely if one is speaking of someone or something one has aversions to, the adjective should be "dislikable"?

Having asked this question I don't find either dislikable or unlikable in my Oxford. The American spellcheck does not accept dislikable, which tells me something!

[vinteuil]

Unlikable.

... English dictionaries (online) use unlikeable and dislikeable, unlikable and dislikable preferred in the US.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/unlikeable

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dislikeable

There might be a distinction between 'dislikeable' (ie someone with regard to whom you feel distinct aversion) and 'unlikeable', where the feeling is more neutral (but you don't 'like' them)