Re: I despair (take 2 ...) OT

[Huge]

AAeeeiii!!!!

[Davey]

At its most fundamental, even 'Transportation', as in 'Department of', is a symptom of this. And I hear that over here now, too.

[Davey]

I always thought that it was Aluminium because it was in the same section of the Periodic Table as Potassium, Sodium, etc, all ending with '.ium'. But I'm not a chemist.

[The Natural Philosopher]

"would sir require transportating to his destination?"

"Take to the department of transportatingation"

[Bob Eager]

One of the courier companies in the UK (I forget which) has a 'Sortation Center'.

[Bob Eager]

Sorry, a 'Sortation Facility'.

[Davey]

Yes, that sounds more likely. Yuck.

[Davey]

Another horror was that everything was 'an Experience', as in: "How was your shopping Experience today?". "Have a Nice Day".

[F Murtz]

In Australia the prime minister,Gough Whitlam, said we should pronounce it Klometer. Why should we do that with this word when none of the other variations of metre don't.(or any other metric measurements)

[F Murtz]

Maybe they should say Burgular as some british and Australians do.

[F Murtz]

Or golf,Goff.

[harryagain]

Well how about flammable and inflammable?

[Andy Burns]

Or "asked" becomes "arksed" which seems to happen among the yoofs on this side of the pond too.

[Nightjar]

On 29/04/2014 07:19, harryagain wrote: ...

Both have been around for quite a while; inflammable being the older, with its roots in Latin. However, some years ago, flammable became the officially preferred option, as there had been a few accidents where people had thought the prefix -in meant not.

Colin Bignell

[Ian Jackson]

Only certain extremely porsh people say 'goff'. Real goffers say 'golf'.

[Bob Eager]

ek-setera.

[fred]

Nah it's Mit-si-bushi that gets me. Even Mike Brewer mispronounces it.

[stuart noble]

Don't get me started on that one!

[charles]

a friend had the perfect riposte: "unfortunately, I've made other arrangeemnts."

[Tim Streater]

It should clearly be pronounced: "mile".