Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Lat-Literal]

Not exactly pulling up trees.

[LeMartinPecheur]

One I heard on PM recently: "long and drawn out".

[Be creative: invent a tautology?]

[LMcD]

The BBC's Jon Sopel has at last used the right word when describing Trump's view of Teresa May's premiership. He's UNDERMINING her, not UNDERCUTTING her (even though he could be accused of cheap tricks).

[teamsaint]

“ just wait till the schools finish......” re the wonderful weather.

[cloughie]

“ just wait till the schools finish......” re the wonderful weather.

Well,ts, they have and still no rain!

[teamsaint]

Well,ts, they have and still no rain!

Which, sadly isnt stopping people saying it....( Hampshire and Wilts go on into next week, poor sods)

Brilliant forecast for weeks ahead, I may have a BBQ with a Proms based playlist.........

[vinteuil]

... Hampshire and Wilts go on into next week, poor sods ...

... but surely Wiltshire still has potato picking week as an extra holiday in October?

[cloughie]

Which, sadly isnt stopping people saying it....( Hampshire and Wilts go on into next week, poor sods)

Brilliant forecast for weeks ahead, I may have a BBQ with a Proms based playlist.........

What, with Michael Ball, Scott Walker and Sixties soul!

I’ll settle for Beach Boys and Summer of Love!

[teamsaint]

What, with Michael Ball, Scott Walker and Sixties soul!

I’ll settle for Beach Boys and Summer of Love!

Yeah, well not a bad idea, although not maybe the Ball.

I’m in a country rock groove right now, so it may be Byrds and similar.

I have triumphed in cheating the national Haloumi crisis and have plentiful supplies .

No potatoes till october round here though.......

[kernelbogey]

Awful.

and useless.

Here's something to put your mind at rest, no honestly, if you happen to find yourself in a crowded space .

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/701910/170614_crowded-places-guidance_v1a.pdf

I happened to be chatting ( on business ) to a Grand Fromage at a very high profile visitor attraction recently, one intimately connected with the armed services. Suffice to say, he wasn't impressed with the nonsense which now surrounds such matters, as routine.

The goverment document on safety to which that links includes the phrase 'stadia and arenas' Surely that should either be 'stadiums and arenas', or 'stadia and arenae'?

[french frank]

The goverment document on safety to which that links includes the phrase 'stadia and arenas' Surely that should either be 'stadiums and arenas', or 'stadia and arenae'?

It's a bit like the referendums/referenda debate. Stadiums because stadia indicates something different (the plural of stadium, a measurement variously calculated at a length of somewhere in the region of 500ft).

[Beef Oven!]

“Production values”

[kernelbogey]

It's a bit like the referendums/referenda debate. Stadiums because stadia indicates something different (the plural of stadium, a measurement variously calculated at a length of somewhere in the region of 500ft).

Or, as a distinguished contributor to these threads has commented (in a different context): writing [e.g.] stadia 'merely advertises that you had a classical education'. Like putting full points in e.g., come to that.

[french frank]

“Production values”

I've never understood that phrase.

[french frank]

Like putting full points in e.g., come to that.

I do that, but that's how I thought it was written If people wrote eg online, I'd mentally place it in the same category as i for I. Not that that indicates any special opinion as to correctness - just how online intercommunication has developed. But I would alter i to I if I noticed that I'd written it.