Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[vinteuil]

It's merely lifelong experience that tells me that if something is 'popular' I probably shan't like it. Not disdain for the 'popular', just my weird tastes I don't take offence that no one ever shares my enthusiasms

... o, I've always happily identified with the Pharisee in Luke -

"The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are ... "

[french frank]

"The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are ... "

As long as the corollary is not 'that I am better than others', M. vinteuil I believe that is what people would, understandably, find annoying. Merely being uninterested in football or alternative pop music is bad enough …

[Triforium]

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.

[teamsaint]

Presumably that's exactly why the BBC avoids using it. It's merely lifelong experience that tells me that if something is 'popular' I probably shan't like it. Not disdain for the 'popular', just my weird tastes I don't take offence that no one ever shares my enthusiasms

No one?

Anyway, You might not enjoy it all that much , but you might usefully listen to Jumping Someone Else’s Train , by The Cure.It won’t take you long. Pop music, it is....though not all that popular at the time.....
( I prefer the unpopular sort , jn general)

[teamsaint]

Initialising.

[french frank]

No one?

No one here, anyway

Anyway, You might not enjoy it all that much , but you might usefully listen to Jumping Someone Else’s Train , by The Cure.It won’t take you long. Pop music, it is....though not all that popular at the time.....
( I prefer the unpopular sort , jn general)

<sigh> Yes, I will listen. I will listen now. I once listened to Kate Bush (I think it was Kate Bush) and earlier today I crept away quietly and listened to Eliane Radigue's Trilogie de la Mort or part of it (I used the slider after about ten minutes to sample various bits).

'Popular' music is often a misnomer in that it often isn't/wasn't very 'popular' in having tens of millions of enthusiasts. Like 'classical music' being used for (very good) film music.

Later: I listened to two videos. This one had the words …

[LezLee]

I'm VERY, VERY fed up with people saying 'REsearch instead of reSEARCH. What can I do?

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm VERY, VERY fed up with people saying 'REsearch instead of reSEARCH. What can I do?

Emigrate to US and buy their language ap??

[Bryn]

I'm VERY, VERY fed up with people saying 'REsearch instead of reSEARCH. What can I do?

While Cambridge UP gives accent on the second syllable in both US and British English, Macmillan offers both stress on the first syllable and on the second as valid alternatives. Then there's Oxford: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionari...ish/research_1

[oddoneout]

While Cambridge UP gives accent on the second syllable in both US and British English, Macmillan offers both stress on the first syllable and on the second as valid alternatives. Then there's Oxford: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionari...ish/research_1

I use both versions - indiscriminate , me. It does suggest that there wasn't a parental edict about it as such things have tended to stick, and both parents and a grandparent were involved in research so the word would have been in use.

[french frank]

While Cambridge UP gives accent on the second syllable in both US and British English, Macmillan offers both stress on the first syllable and on the second as valid alternatives.

Validity indicating 1) what people regularly say and recording 2) the differences as being 'valid', 'rare', 'colloquial'. It isn't about what is logical, rational or correct, but what is said/heard. OED records both pronunciations without comment.

My contribution (which it appears I did not post earlier, as I thought I had) as in letter from BT this morning:

"Your prices are changing soon" where 'changing' means 'increasing' … A not infrequent usage.

[Bryn]

Validity indicating 1) what people regularly say and recording 2) the differences as being 'valid', 'rare', 'colloquial'. It isn't about what is logical, rational or correct, but what is said/heard. OED records both pronunciations without comment.

My contribution (which it appears I did not post earlier, as I thought I had) as in letter from BT this morning:

"Your prices are changing soon" where 'changing' means 'increasing' … A not infrequent usage.

Hh, heh. That reminds me of when a company I worked for was taken over by another. Consequent upon this was an 'adjustment' in prices. For once, the new prices were between the previous ones used by each of the two companies. I chose to produce a poster announcing "harmonisation" of the prices. . The MD was full of congratulations re the finesse.

[french frank]

The MD was full of congratulations re the finesse.

Indeed, it brings a smile to the face - something to look forward to with pleasure

[vinteuil]

"Your prices are changing soon" where 'changing' means 'increasing' … A not infrequent usage.

... in the same way that those seeking to increase the possibilities of 'social mobility' always seem to imply that the mobility will predominantly be upwards...

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[teamsaint]

I'm VERY, VERY fed up with people saying 'REsearch instead of reSEARCH. What can I do?

Join the Canute school of pronunciation ?

I'll carry on pronouncing it as you do, but , you know, there is much else to concern ourselves with.

Incidentally, I didn't know till recently that Bognor and Southampton both claim the famous tide incident.