Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[french frank]

In fact, I think it's tautologous, though; because the -end- infix is the equivalent of -ing. OED gives crescendoed and crescendoes (vb), but not crescendoing. Depends whether one considers 'to crescendo' to be sufficiently English to be treated with our usual English insouciance regarding foreign words.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think I'll fade to a (literal) diminuendo in this discussion.

[greenilex]

And a dimmingness of the eyes...time to turn in.

[ahinton]

Or "crescendoing" (vid OED for crescendo as a verb: 'intr. To increase gradually in loudness or intensity.'

I feel inclined to express a personal preference to "nothing doing" over "crescendoing", if that would be OK...

[jean]

Crescing. Why not?

[greenilex]

Defined as the noise of a badly-run kindergarten class?

[oddoneout]

And I'm left wondering what would constitute a full weather forecast!

Getting to use all the symbols and weather terms at once? Or perhaps more accurately, in one forecast.

[Mal]

The use of "invest in" outside of a financial context. Andrew Clements stands accused:

" ... those who invest in the complete set won’t have many disappointments ... "

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/05/beethoven-the-piano-sonatas-etc-review-andras-schiff

This was spotted by a cifer, who commented:

"We do not INVEST in buying CDs - we BUY them.

I have spent £100,000+ on gramophone reads and CDs over my life. Unfortunately they will not sell for profit and cannot be part of my pension fund."



P.S. What's a gramophone read?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Crescing. Why not?

Defined as the noise of a badly-run kindergarten class?

- or what posh people say when their vehicles collide?

[LMcD]

The use of "invest in" outside of a financial context. Andrew Clements stands accused:

" ... those who invest in the complete set won’t have many disappointments ... "

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/05/beethoven-the-piano-sonatas-etc-review-andras-schiff

This was spotted by a cifer, who commented:

"We do not INVEST in buying CDs - we BUY them.

I have spent £100,000+ on gramophone reads and CDs over my life. Unfortunately they will not sell for profit and cannot be part of my pension fund."



P.S. What's a gramophone read?

If you mean 'what does a gramophone read?', I guess it would be Discover (or even Disc-cover) Magazine.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

If you mean 'what does a gramophone read?', I guess it would be Discover (or even Disc-cover) Magazine.

I believe Mal was referring to the final statement in the "cifer's" comment - "I have spent £100,999+ on gramophone reads". I presume that this is a typo for "gramophone records"?

But I've no idea what a "cifer" is. Google was no help.

[LMcD]

I get irritated by sports reporters (there was one on the 6 p.m. news on Radio 4 yesterday) who refer to '4 straight wins (or defeats) in a row/on the bounce/in succession'. (I'm assuming that 'straight' is not referring to the sexual preferences of the teams involved).

[cloughie]

I get irritated by sports reporters (there was one on the 6 p.m. news on Radio 4 yesterday) who refer to '4 straight wins (or defeats) in a row/on the bounce/in succession'. (I'm assuming that 'straight' is not referring to the sexual preferences of the teams involved).

I don’t find that a particular irritant, what I do dislike is when sport reporters sign off by saying that’s all the sport! No, it’s not all the sport, it is the miniscule amount of current sports news they have been given to tell us about, and very often when there’s not much to report on it’s based on rumours that some over rich football team is possibly going to spend some obscene amount of money on a player!

[Richard Barrett]

But I've no idea what a "cifer" is. Google was no help.

A CIFer is someone who comments on a Guardian article ("Comment Is Free").

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A CIFer is someone who comments on a Guardian article ("Comment Is Free").