Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But there was never an up or down to dialling a number, was there? No more than you could reverse the hand on a sundial.
I've looked online through lots of dictionary definitions online but none of them give any pointers as to where this notion emerged from.

No - hence my own confusion Vinty's reference to the volume dial on a HiFi system makes much more sense. (In fact, I might even start using the expression myself! )

[Oakapple]

"Marine environment" includes the shoreline, not just he sea itself.

It was about sea creatures swallowing plastic in the sea. I don't know whether any creatures on the sand eat plastic too.

[Serial_Apologist]

It was about sea creatures swallowing plastic in the sea. I don't know whether any creatures on the sand eat plastic too.

We all do...

[LMcD]

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... I've been encountering "dial down" and also "dial up" a fair bit over the last year or so. I'm sure the image comes from turning a dial down or up (... to 11), and nothing to do with dying. Not a phrase I wd use, but I don't find it particularly objectionable.

Never encountered "choosed" (nor "chus'd", neither... ). Can LMcD recall the perpetrator?


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I can't recall who said 'choosed', but I HAVE found 'dialed down', uttered by the normally estimable Emilio San Pedro on the World Service as 0509'30" today (Thursday).

[ahinton]

"Marine environment" includes the shoreline, not just he sea itself.

"Behold the sea again"!...

[Serial_Apologist]

"Behold the sea again"!...

and all those limitless, heaving breasts!

[cloughie]

and all those limitless, heaving breasts!

Steady now!

[Serial_Apologist]

Steady now!

[LezLee]

Sorry if this has been mentioned before (too many to do a search for).

'A short space of time' Makes no sense at all. Where did it come from? Why is there never a long space of time?

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry if this has been mentioned before (too many to do a search for).

'A short space of time' Makes no sense at all. Where did it come from? Why is there never a long space of time?

I never seem to find the time.......

[StephenMcK]

Didn't 'tone down the rhetoric' do the job fine as it was.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Nuculus

Several occurrences of 'nuculus' from Mark Simpson on Record Review this morning. Not a coinage of his, I suspect - have we considered it before?

Diminutive of L. nucus, n., meaning obscure?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoASZyihalc

[DracoM]

Several occurrences of 'nuculus' from Mark Simpson on Record Review this morning. Not a coinage of his, I suspect - have we considered it before?

Diminutive of L. nucus, n., meaning obscure?

Well, at least you found something worth listening to on RR [- woops, sorry, lese majeste etc but..........The Andrew McGregor Show] this a.m.?

[LeMartinPecheur]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoASZyihalc

fhg: grateful thanks, all is now clear