RogerS wrote: Certainly, a quick look at various online dictionaries shows decimated in the context of killing a lot of people. Wonder which is the definitive source ? OED? Chambers ?
Dictionaries record common usage not necessarily correct usage.
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RogerS wrote: Certainly, a quick look at various online dictionaries shows decimated in the context of killing a lot of people. Wonder which is the definitive source ? OED? Chambers ?
Phil Pascoe wrote:RogerS wrote: Certainly, a quick look at various online dictionaries shows decimated in the context of killing a lot of people. Wonder which is the definitive source ? OED? Chambers ?
Dictionaries record common usage not necessarily correct usage.
Steve Maskery wrote:....an attempt to get the word into the OED.
S
AJB Temple wrote:I used to be in the caring about language camp. Now my tent is pitched in the couldn't care less field. Reason is language, whether spoken or written has but a single purpose: communication. If that is achieved, then the purpose is met.
We have to adapt to many things in life. Ageing for instance. Embrace change with enthusiasm as there is no purpose looking back to how things were done "when I were a they".
RogerS wrote:"Thank you for reaching out to us"
If I did that, sunshine, then I must have bloody long arms
fiveeyes wrote:Luddite's
change is the universal 'language' of all life
Andy Kev. wrote:That is the one that annoys me the most at the moment. It is usually used instead of the perfectly serviceable “contacting”.
The other one that drives me up the wall - and there are guilty parties on here: shame on you! - is the use of “share” when what is meant is “tell”, “show” or “explain”.
I teach English for a living these days and I’ve come to the view that fashion in language is, in general terms, like fashion in anything else: it is for the lazy, the inadequate and the weak of character.
Other than that, I’m the most tolerant bloke on the planet.
Andyp wrote:When did normalcy replace normality?
Is it just me?
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Bathroom
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Bathroom
RogerS wrote:North. As in the weather is bad up North...meaning Manchester or Liverpool. Neither are in the North.
Phil Pascoe wrote:RogerS wrote:North. As in the weather is bad up North...meaning Manchester or Liverpool. Neither are in the North.
It always amuses me when it is said that Swindon is in the South West. Anywhere north of Bodmin is the North.
9fingers wrote:Phil Pascoe wrote:RogerS wrote:North. As in the weather is bad up North...meaning Manchester or Liverpool. Neither are in the North.
It always amuses me when it is said that Swindon is in the South West. Anywhere north of Bodmin is the North.
Same here with southampton being in the south east. With the typical EW width of southern England there really ought to be a central southern region.
Bob
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