Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[french frank]

I'm putting it down to an aberration which I think we'll disregard ...


For some reason, I don't like the much-used here 'spot on' which is a quid pro quo for the 'absolutely' suggestion which I do tend to use. However, I've been muttering it to myself, sort of role-playing, and think I usually say, Yes, absolutely; or Absolutely, yes. But 'spot on' ...

[mercia]

personally, I think I would have said : "between 2004 and 2011 some 2,300 avoidance schemes were disclosed"

yes I like some

some is better than about (IMO)

[John Shelton]

For some reason, I don't like the much-used ... 'spot on'

Spot on .

(i really am most sorry for that . I do agree!)

[ahinton]

Spot on .

(i really am most sorry for that . I do agree!)

As do I; absolutely definitely spot-on...

[mangerton]

If it looks like a troll and talks like a troll, it's probably a troll. I'm putting it down as a troll.

(with apologies to Messrs Enfield & Whitehouse)

Yes, I'm sure it was a troll in the pre-internet days when a very young miss m had one.

[mangerton]

It occurs to me that the use of some, about, or approximately could be avoided by the use of the suitably vague "the better part of a good few".

[Ferretfancy]

It occurs to me that the use of some, about, or approximately could be avoided by the use of the suitably vague "the better part of a good few".

mangerton

Food for thought there, perhaps your people and my people could get together to sort it out.

[Nick Armstrong]

looks to me like a quare troll. D'you think it's a quare troll? I'm putting it down as a quare troll...

In case anyone was wondering what vindepays and I were on about, I've discovered to my delight that the relevant sketches are on trusty youtube. Here is an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B86z1cwZtI

[Serial_Apologist]

In case anyone was wondering what vindepays and I were on about, I've discovered to my delight that the relevant sketches are on trusty youtube. Here is an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B86z1cwZtI

I just love the gypsy character Paul Whitehouse does on that programme - amazing bit of make-up.

[3rd Viennese School]

Apologies if this has been on the previous 500 (500!) messages

Twenty Twelve.

AAAAGGGHH!!!!!!

Fair enough if all the other years were pronounced like this. But we’ve had

Two Thousand and Ten

Two Thousand and Eleven

Twenty Twelve

Why Twenty Twelve? Because it sounds cool? Trendy? This is OUR year!!?!

Conjuring up events like the Jubilee

Football

Olympics

Well. It’s been a tragic year for me.
And it rained all summer.

And worse of all. Couldn’t even put my bike on the train during the Olympics!

Twenty Twelve my xxxx.



3VS

[mangerton]

mangerton

Food for thought there, perhaps your people and my people could get together to sort it out.

Certainly. Shall we say, in due course, or in the fullness of time?

[Mr Pee]

Apologies if this has been on the previous 500 (500!) messages

Twenty Twelve.

AAAAGGGHH!!!!!!

Fair enough if all the other years were pronounced like this. But we’ve had

Two Thousand and Ten

Two Thousand and Eleven

Twenty Twelve

Why Twenty Twelve? Because it sounds cool? Trendy? This is OUR year!!?!

Conjuring up events like the Jubilee

Football

Olympics

Well. It’s been a tragic year for me.
And it rained all summer.

And worse of all. Couldn’t even put my bike on the train during the Olympics!

Twenty Twelve my xxxx.



3VS

I seem to recall plenty of uses of twenty-ten and twenty-eleven. I don't think twenty-twelve is unique- maybe it's just impinged more onto our consciousness because of the brilliant TV series of the same name.

[mercia]

Battle of Hastings - ten sixty-six - or one thousand and sixty-six ?

but sorry it's been a tragic year for 3VS

[vinteuil]

Twenty Twelve my xxxx.

as merckx has indicated -

1066 ten sixty six

I wd add

1492 fourteen ninety two
1666 sixteen sixty six
1789 seventeen eighty nine
1805 eighteen - o - five
1939 nineteen thirty nine
2012 twenty twelve

... sounds right to me.

I think we were led astray by that fillum "2001... ", which people insisted on calling "two thousand and one", when clearly it shd've been "twenty - o - one"...

[Nick Armstrong]

............

Twenty Twelve my xxxx.



3VS

3VS if it existed I would nominate your splendid rant for the award for Post of the Month Made me chuckle no end!