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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

I was watching Pointless the TV Quiz show at dinner time and the answer to one of the questions was sulphur but it has now to be spelt sulfur. I wonder who gets paid to sit down and make these decisions. Mad innit. Shocked

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Ellis · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:01 am Post subject:

I agree.

In the same vein, who had the right to demote Pluto from being a "proper" planet to a "dwarf planet"?
It even has several moons and if that fact does not qualify it as a planet then what does?

I'm just waiting to see if they will rename the element "plutonium".

Maybe the people who think about these things use or invented words such as "ringfencing", "prioritise", "focus groups" or "at this moment in time".
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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:24 am Post subject:

It's like the official source of the Thames - a Gloucestershire field that's dry as a bone nearly all the time, even in the fairly wet winter a few years back when I walked over from the main road. There are plenty of reliable springs in the Cotswolds which flow that way, some of them in pretty villages which might even still have nice pubs - but no, let's have a dry field in the middle of nowhere... Rolling Eyes

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Another one that annoys me is calling young people baby goats.

Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

Sulphur is perfectly acceptable - if it isn't, 40,100,000 links on Google are wrong!

Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

"By the way" Mr Tombaugh "we have to prioritise."Pluto is not now a planet."at this moment in time. Although "after all is said and done" we have decided in our infinite wisdom "we" will make it a dwarf planet because "we" have measured it. Laughing

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V8 Nutter · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 605

"Obviously" we think it is "basicly" too small.

A strange thing for such an overused word, "basicly" does not appear in my dictionary. It must be in later editions.

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

Probably because it is spelt "basically" as it were so to speak to coin a phrase or will that change to frase. Laughing

The Americans spell a lot of our words differently. Probablly because its easier to spell a word as it sounds.
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V8 Nutter · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 605

Sorry about that, I "obviously" read too much American literature, whether it be novels or about cars. That still doesn't change my point virtually everyone who is interviewed on T.V. starts their reply with "Well basically" (got it right this time), unless they are a footballer (dare I use that word?) who always seem to start with "Obviously"

47Jag · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:46 pm Post subject:

A lot of the interviews now start off with "I mean".

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colwyn500 · Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland

The word that bugs me is "So"
Just listen to anyone , especially on the radio and more so when they are an "expert" answering a question. Typically it goes as follows:

Interviewer: "How do you know that people are increasingly interested in classic cars?"

Expert: "So, we spoke to a group of 50 year olds and found that they thought of nothing else"

Why "So", at the beginning of a sentence it seems pointless. It really annoys me ; can you tell?

Bitumen Boy · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:46 pm Post subject:

How about people who end every sentence with "OK"? I think they all need a slap, OK? Just because they get on my nerves, OK?

JohnDale · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:25 pm Post subject:

Maybe the people who think about these things use or invented words such a "at this moment in time".[/quote]

Where else would the moment be?
maybe it's just,LIKE, something to say - aaaaagh
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V8 Nutter · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 605

Now string it all together. A, so, a few obviously, followed by a basically, a this moment in time, a couple of O.K., probably followed by a yeah? a like, you know what I mean and a simple you know. It would be possible to have a whole conversation without actually saying anything.

Sorry, I have just realised politicians have been doing that for years.