Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Paul T]

Martin,

Well of course you lot are going to blame the colonies, aren't you? 

 

[Maggi Young]

 It seems to be more prevalent amongst young women and girls than with young men and boys.

 That might, in my opinion, be attributed to the fact that many young men and boys have a great tendency to be monsyllabic ..... hard to get much inflection in a low frequency grunt !

[WimB]

That might, in my opinion, be attributed to the fact that many young men and boys have a great tendency to be monsyllabic ..... hard to get much inflection in a low frequency grunt !

  I have to bite my tongue not to respond to that... (Bad dirty mind)

No sentence ends which are intoned as a question in Dutch though...

[Maggi Young]

That might, in my opinion, be attributed to the fact that many young men and boys have a great tendency to be monsyllabic ..... hard to get much inflection in a low frequency grunt !

  I have to bite my tongue not to respond to that... (Bad dirty mind)

No sentence ends which are intoned as a question in Dutch though...

 

[Darren]

I'm biting my tongue too Wim.

 I'll have you know Maggi that I'm as good at monosyllabic grunts as a man half my age!

[mark smyth]

I spent a couple of days last weekend in Belfast where I heard lots of eh.

Blame Home and Away with the Neighbours! Barbie is a common word here now also and not referring to Barbie unless macho men are now playing with Barbie

The funny side of going out ... 5 of us were in a well known Belfast night club. I said look how many kids are in here. One girl heard me, turned round and said in broadest Belfast accent "Aren't you a bit old to be in here?" I said how old do you think I am and she said over 30. Happy days!

[johnw]

 It's here: (Attachment Link)

Maggi - I see you give the smiley a very short haircut with me in mind. (statement)

johnw

[mark smyth]

Maybe the eh will replace the extremely annoying Norn Iron sentence ending "but"

[johnw]

Thanks for that link Diane.

HRT disorder it will be from now on.


johnw

[Anthony Darby]

The kids in my class don't say "eh" they say "what" (pronounced whet). My reply is "who let the duck in"?

My particular beef listening to the radio or TV is missing out syllables. i.e. not pronouncing words "prop(er)ly". Words like Draw(r)ing; adapt(at)ion; particu(lar)ly  (letter in brackets added or deleted) etc. etc.

[Michael J Campbell]

The more educated can be annoying  as well . Ever hear the CEOs giving their annual reports, "year on year", and "going forward"  Have they discovered some way of going back in time? . And what does year on year mean?

[mark smyth]

Anthony if you were teaching over here you wouldnt be asked what or whet but whaa? and plural of you is yous. In the Glens a ewe is a yo.

[Gerry Webster]

My particular beef listening to the radio or TV is missing out syllables. i.e. not pronouncing words "prop(er)ly". Words like Draw(r)ing; adapt(at)ion; particu(lar)ly  (letter in brackets added or deleted) etc. etc.

"Adaption" (written as well as spoken) was very common among biology students when I retired nearly 10 years ago. I imagine it is now practically universal.  It was not unknown among some of their younger teachers.

My own pet peeve is the confusion between 'overestimate' & 'underestimate' - widespread on BBC Radio. 

[Martinr]

My pet hate...thank you Anthony for reminding me, is the (r) in drawing, and any other word with W in it including law. Why can't the English speak their own language . Our Oxford English Dictionary even puts the r in in their pronunciation guide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I could scream..........................Or perhaps I'll just call them all numptyheids.

What's more they have the cheek to laugh when I say worum for those best friends of the gardener.


Phew...that was cathartic

[Lesley Cox]

I could add a whole lot to those above but for now will content myself (have to leave for work in a few mins, a very big, extra pre-Christmas Market day) with adding to Anthony's lot, lib'ry and Feb'ry. What's so silly about the latter is that those determined NOT to abbreviate the word, carefully say Febuary.

John, you know, of course, that HRT is the cure for something quite different.