Words that get on your nerves

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    Thank you … that was a photograph of me taken by Mrs Lao when I was in a good mood!
    When I “spy an interloper that has invaded my greensward”, you wouldn’t see my face for the telescopic sight!
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      Thanks for explaining as, otherwise, I would have ignored the post. :heehee:

      Touching on law, I've had to read many 'legal' documents over the years and dislike the total lack of punctuation. I don't know if that is the way it is still done. I suppose that this should really be in the 'Moan' thread.
       
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      Punctuation gives precision. Lawyers hate that. They like debate. The Oxford comma is a good example of precision. It removes confusion. Compare: “Today I bought a lettuce and a box of Whiskas for the cat.” with “Today I bought a lettuce, and a box of Whiskas for the cat.”
       
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        Oh the happy hours my mother and I spent trying to convince my father's family that it was 'worter' and not 'watter', 'parth' and not 'pâth', 'barth' and not 'bâth' etc etc :roflol: What a difference 70 miles makes.
        When I married someone from Surrey, to say that our wedding was 'interesting' is putting it mildly. The Montagues and Capulets spring to mind :biggrin:
         
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          Nowt wrong with Surrey folk! :biggrin:
           
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            Have you noticed how Americans can't say "nuclear" - they say "new killer".
             
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              Hee hee, I remember when I was little, my mother pointing out that there's no "r" in bath, when someone on kiddie's TV was pronouncing it "barth". I'd have been about four or five, so learning to read and write.

              My OH isn't from very far away and there are still pronunciation differences, for example he pronounces bury the same as berry.
               
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                Is it scone or scon? The former of course. I have butter and jam on mine.
                 
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                  I like my scones (not sconns) with butter and cheese on them. But not if they're stale and hard as stones (not stonns!).

                  English is packed full of pronunciation inconsistencies before we even start on regional variations. It must be an absolute nightmare to learn it as a foreign language if you aren't immersed in it.

                  foot but boot
                  hoe shoe show plow
                   
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                    I live in the Isle of Thanet, so many call it Fanet.
                     
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                    Well, no, I would quite like to have been born there myself :biggrin:
                     
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                      As Mrs Capulet at one point said to Mrs Montague, and as ALL world leaders could say to each other: “Can we stop all this?! We were all born in the same place!
                       
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                      I'd like to live there ... and be among the first to see the sun rise!
                       
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                      Forensic scientists have studied the skull of Richard III, he of the car park in Leicester, and found that he spoke with a Yorkshire accent. So, Shakespeare, let’s have a re-write: An orse, an orse, me kingdom for an orse. Sithee, Get off the bum and find me a bloody orse!
                       
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