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by diggingdeeper - 20th Oct 2026 10:26am
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You mean ITS edge. "It's" is the abbreviated form of "it is". My own pet hate is apostrophe misuse. See below and take note: http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/ I remember Keith Waterhouse in his Daily Mail column forming the A.A.A.A which was the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe. It's a concept to which I wholeheartedly subscribe.
Carpe diem.
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I think that this thread is Absolutely AMAZING!.
Last edited by flycaster; 22nd Feb 2012 7:04pm.
OO?? ME?? Yer jokin officer.
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Careful there Fly, they will be forming the A.A.A.F. next... 
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Another one is "can I axe you a question?" I even heard a radio presenter using it "last night I axed you a question" - turned off after that! I doubt you would like watching rastamouse on cbeebies then..lol
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Not a spoken thing but written, but the almost total death of punctuation! Have none of them heard of:
The teacher said the boy is a fool.
and
The teacher, said the boy, is a fool.
I used to laugh at the expression'The natives are revolting'.
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Why don't so called experts not know there is no such word as 'hieroglyphics'. Really? Is it just 'hieroglyphic'? A single character is a "glyph", so I think OP's suggestion is that "hieroglyphs" is the correct pleural. Certainly the use of hieroglyphic as a noun looks to have fallen from favour in academia. Hieroglyphic is an adjective.
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What really annoys me is the pronunciation of lieutenant as "lootenant" by the media.  
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Hieroglyphic is an adjective. Yes, but previously it was also acceptable to use it as a noun. In fact some dictionaries still list it as one...
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As for speech, I get irritated by the "axe" and "axed" instead of ask and asked Is that no really a black thing though, to do with the afro-Caribbean accent?? I know some muppets imitate it nowadays, but it's a bit wrong to criticise people for their accents. 
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As for speech, I get irritated by the "axe" and "axed" instead of ask and asked Is that no really a black thing though, to do with the afro-Caribbean accent?? I know some muppets imitate it nowadays, but it's a bit wrong to criticise people for their accents. True, it is accent based, but it has become adopted by people who dont have the accent as a replacement for 'ask'. Ive pulled up my kids for saying it. Its like when British kids do American 'gangsta' speak. "Me and my brederin come from da mean streets of Detroi... I mean Birkenhead, yo." Even then it gets butchered beyond recognition. Its not about race, its about emulating a culture that you are not a part of. It makes me cringe. Another media one that I hate is 'nother', as in 'a whole nother level'. Just lazy.
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As for speech, I get irritated by the "axe" and "axed" instead of ask and asked, along with words beginning with, or containing, "th" that are pronounced as if they start with an "f", e.g. fank, fick, fink and anyfink.
'Anythink' is even more commonly heard. My pet hate is 'gonna'. Another hate is the use of the plural verb in phrases like 'the Government are..','the company are..', 'the team are..', 'the BBC are..', etc. The perils of a grammar school education!
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Since when did it become acceptable to start linking words randomly together? 'Aswell', 'alot', 'aslong'...
There is no such word as 'alot'! :sobs:
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What really annoys me is the pronunciation of lieutenant as "lootenant" by the media. Aha! Our Jimmy was always the "1st lootenant" and we had "lootenant commanders" as well as ordinary 2 ringed "lootenants". Depends where you are serving. I think the Frogs might "lootenant" it as well, only in a Frog accent. I think I'm right but in "leff" of a difinitive answer I'll leave it at that. 
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Sentences without proper verbs, init.
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