Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[P. G. Tipps]

Serve Ike All; and the related Umby like all.

I feel so sorry for women, having such mis-pronounceable organs!

Both patronising and deeply misogynistic ...

[ahinton]

Both patronising and deeply misogynistic ...

I think that you've missed the irony bit here; for what it may or may not be worth, you're not the first to do so around these parts, however...

[P. G. Tipps]

I think that you've missed the irony bit here; for what it may or may not be worth, you're not the first to do so around these parts, however...

[Serial_Apologist]

Irony's not what it once was.

[ahinton]

Irony's not what it once was.

No; for some, it's gotten quite rusty, it would seem...

[P. G. Tipps]

No; for some, it's gotten quite rusty, it would seem...

'gotten' ...

[Pabmusic]

'gotten' ...

Gotten is one of two (perfectly correct) past participles of get. It is unusual in modern standard British English, because we Brits stopped using it a couple of hundred years ago, although it it's not unknown in some dialects. We seem to have an aversion to it, although we happily use forget and forgotten still, and keep it in archaic phrases such as 'ill-gotten gains'. Americans and Canadians never lost gotten.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot.

[Pabmusic]

For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot.

Yes,we use forgot and forgotten. Rather as Americans use both got and gotten:

"As past participles of get, got and gotten both date back to Middle English. The form gotten is not used in British English but is very common in North American English. In North American English, got and gotten are not identical in use. Gotten usually implies the process of obtaining something, as in he had gotten us tickets for the show, while got implies the state of possession or ownership, as in I haven’t got any money."

(OED)

[Stanfordian]

I'm sure it must have been said before here, to 'touch base'. And 'blu-sky thinking' and 'keep me in the loop'. This over a decade or so old management speech but are still used by some. I heard them all used last week.

[P. G. Tipps]

Gotten is one of two (perfectly correct) past participles of get. It is unusual in modern standard British English, because we Brits stopped using it a couple of hundred years ago, although it it's not unknown in some dialects. We seem to have an aversion to it, although we happily use forget and forgotten still, and keep it in archaic phrases such as 'ill-gotten gains'. Americans and Canadians never lost gotten.

That's all very well, Pab, but we Britons don't live in America or Canada where some things appear to have become frozen in time since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers.They still use imperial measurements and the Fahrenheit scale 'over there', don't they?

'Brits' ...

[Pabmusic]

That's all very well, Pab, but we Britons don't live in America or Canada where some things appear to have become frozen in time since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers.They still use imperial measurements and the Fahrenheit scale 'over there', don't they?

'Brits' ...

Britons Pass the woad, Scotty. British?

[Beef Oven!]

Brittens!

[ahinton]

For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot.

Now why drag poor Harry into this?(!)...

[ahinton]

Brittens!

Forth Bridges.