LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2018

Have to agree with you @shiney re our language. I know language has evolved over the years and continues to do so but just sometimes i feel like screaming when it is abused. My personal pet hate is the misuse of lovely. "He did that lovely". I'm off out into the garden as it is a lovely day.

 

I'm surprised how there are so many "devastated" people around.
Everyone interviewed about a "Crisis" is always "devastated".

 

@shiney I did not know that.

I dislike that the new dictionaries do not show the enunciation of words. I had to go online to find out why I had been mispronouncing capillary. Found out that the stress in the "pill" part is British/military and the way I was saying it with the "CAP" and end in "lairy" is very Merikan

 

I purposely ignore spelling and grammar (drove my elder sister mad, she was an English teacher!!) but I am Carols' resident "spell checker", so I can get it right when I have to.

Edit, ENGLISH spell checker (from England)!

 

Never understood American.
They like to shorten everything.
So why say Elevator when "lift" will do?
Or Automobile when "Car" will do.

 

Refreshing to know there are still some considerate people residing in this country we call home!

 

Now living in London, I sometimes forget just how good things were being raised in a small village in leafy Hertfordshire

 

Dreaming of living in a leafy village just reminded me of a major gripe I have.
We live in a town but are lucky enough to have lots of green space and trees around. Fabulous, you might think, not when it's conker season
The delightful offspring of the ' couldn't care less' ( minority, thankfully) take great pleasure in trying to cause maximum window damage. Tonight the pelting lasted about 20 minutes, on and off!
Call me old fashioned but we used to put a string through them and play Conkers?

 

I sometimes wonder if horses should be on roads these days, I dont think it's safe for traffic and definitely not for horses, often see kids riding horses on roads around here, the horse is often scared of the traffic.
I cant see why land owners cant get themselves sorted out and create bridleways across their land so that horses dont have to go on busy roads, lets face it even lanes are busy around here.

Quite often I come across this idiot driving one of those contraptions with two wheels and the horse seems to trot like crazy, not sure what you call them.
He seems to take it out during rush hour times just to be a total pain.
You can see he enjoys the traffic jam behind him, while the poor old horse gets spooked by loads of traffic trying to get passed.
Total maniac.