Blimey, I thought Arthur Mullard was dead.
What word do you hate the most? Page 6
Quote: Graham Bandage @ May 29 2008, 11:54 AM BSTBlimey, I thought Arthur Mullard was dead.
Presumably, the late Mr Mullard would have had a "death Sustificate"?
Quote: Geoff Mutton @ May 29 2008, 11:58 AM BSTPresumably, the late Mr Mullard would have had a "death Sustificate"?
Oh, yus!
Quote: Aaron @ May 29 2008, 11:53 AM BSTIs the 'a' pronounced as a in 'apple', or is it 'or'?
I'm not sure if I follow what you mean, but the gall part is pronounced in the same way as gall bladder.
celibacy.
Demographics.
Quote: Winterlight @ May 29 2008, 12:19 PM BSTI'm not sure if I follow what you mean, but the gall part is pronounced in the same way as gall bladder.
Yeah, but that's another word wot varies across the country! Like I say "Lanc-arse-ter", but my girlfriend (and I suspect the region's locals) say "Lanc-ass-tah".
And then there's the old Barth/Bahth debate.
Quote: EllieJP @ May 29 2008, 12:24 PM BSTcelibacy.
Quote: Aaron @ May 29 2008, 12:48 PM BSTYeah, but that's another word wot varies across the country! Like I say "Lanc-arse-ter", but my girlfriend (and I suspect the region's locals) say "Lanc-ass-tah".
My brother-in-law lives in Lancaster. Lovely part of the world.
Roger Irrelevant
News At Ten
Nowheresville.
A list which could be MUCH longer:
1) 'Ax' instead of 'ask'.
2) 'Pacific' instead of 'specific' -- what sort of *c**t* does use that anyway!?? F**king wankers!
3) 'Ultimately' -- hate the word. My Dad used to use it all the time. It should VERY RARELY be used: that's the whole point of it!
4) 'Random' used as stated above, but also when it clearly is being used to mean 'chaotic', which are two different things.
5) Use of the word 'very' or 'really' for things that are not variable, such as 'It was *really* hilarious'. Well, no it wasn't -- it was either hilarious or it wasn't.
6) And this is probably be the biggest one: people who put 'an' in front of a word beginning with 'h', such as 'an historic victory'. No, you twat -- people used to use it in olden days where the point was you dropped the 'h'. Nowadays it should be 'a historic victory'. And it wound me up so much I checked in the Oxford English Grammar Usage book and, guess what, I was right!
You know what, this is *extremely* cathartic 
Incidentally, on use of z/s in -izations: I felt the same about this, but then someone told me the original English was with a 'z' not an 's', so the Americans use the original English spellings and *we've* changed it! Be buggered if I can find this on the internet anywhere though!
Dan
Generic. I don't know why, I just don't like it! Pronounciation wise, it used to annoy me so much when my friend pronounced "Hazard" as "har-zad".
Quote: swerytd @ May 29 2008, 3:26 PM BST, on use of z/s in -izations: I felt the same about this, but then someone told me the original English was with a 'z' not an 's', so the Americans use the original English spellings and *we've* changed it! Be buggered if I can find this on the internet anywhere though!
Dan
Bill Bryson writes about it in, I think, Mother Tongue.
Lanc-arse-ter - lol, brilliant. Wrong, but brilliant.
Any racial epithets
Quote: Alan C @ May 29 2008, 10:00 PM BSTAny racial epithets
Assuming that you mean in derogatory terms, that strikes me as a bit of a ridiculous statement as it's down the individual as to what they find offensive. For example, if I'd have called an asian at my school a 'Paki', they'd have done their raving na-na. And yet they referred to themselves and each other as Pakis all the time.
Soo yeah. That was a laboured rant about double-standards, racism, insults and whatnot. 
Quote: Aaron @ May 29 2008, 10:15 PM BSTAssuming that you mean in derogatory terms, that strikes me as a bit of a ridiculous statement as it's down the individual as to what they find offensive. For example, if I'd have called an asian at my school a 'Paki', they'd have done their raving na-na. And yet they referred to themselves and each other as Pakis all the time.
Soo yeah. That was a laboured rant about double-standards, racism, insults and whatnot.
An epithet is an abusive or contemptuous word or phrase, so therefore a racial epithet is an abusive or contemptuous word or phrase aimed at a member of a different race. I guess the intent is a strong indicator.
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