Random Irritations

[Blue in Munich]

The dictionary isn’t the be all and end all of the English language, it does reflect the language changes and introduction of new popular words.
So if we as a society take to a word and use it all the time it could make it’s way in ..
So if you can get “springy” in as a description of the weather, good job ? ??

What I don’t like is Microsoft defaults to an American spell checker, that is not a language and is a local bastardisation of the English language and tantamount to having a Cumbrian/brummie/ Liverpudlian spell checker ...

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.

 

[Slime]

You are wrong:

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No, you're missing the point ................. again.
As I said before, in my world the word 'wintry' is, and always will be wrong.

 

[Slime]

Having MY random irritation scrutinised by others.
Why?
It's MY random irritation, go get your own.

 

[backwoodsman]

I think it's been discussed here before - but it's a strange quirk of the English language. If summer is summery then winter should be wintery shouldn't it? Who decided to cut the 'e' in one and not the other?

Then again autumny isn't a word, it's autumnal. And spring? Spring-like? Springy?

Neither. It will be Springal. As in crisps and jumpers

 

[backwoodsman]

Vernal.

That's confused you, hasn't it?

Surely vernal is a type of disease you catch in the front downstairs??

 

[patricks148]

hitting a frozen tyre rut at full pelt down forestry track...... scary

 

[Mandofred]

hitting a frozen tyre rut at full pelt down forestry track...... scary

I've still got an old scar/weird patch of skin on the side of my knee from doing this while living in Germany...about the mid 90's. Luckily NOT at full tilt....but frozen tire ruts. Fell once...nice scab that took a few weeks to heal. Then when it healed I fell in close to the same area, hit the same place and ripped the same patch of skin off. Good thing I don't make money as a model.....too many scars.

 

[Orikoru]

Trying to do a questionnaire from Bupa ahead of a health check next week. Can't even get into it because it wants to verify my mobile number and it refuses to send me the text message. There's a number to call to sort it out and I've been on hold for 15 minutes now. Shouldn't be this bloody hard.

 

[GuyInLyon]

I think it's been discussed here before - but it's a strange quirk of the English language. If summer is summery then winter should be wintery shouldn't it? Who decided to cut the 'e' in one and not the other?

And if someone "revolts" then revolution should be pronounced ree-vol-shun.
But if you pronounce revolution in the conventional way then revolt should be pronounced rev-oh-loo.

 

[Orikoru]

And if someone "revolts" then revolution should be pronounced ree-vol-shun.
But if you pronounce revolution in the conventional way then revolt should be pronounced rev-oh-loo.

If alcoholics are addicted to alcohol then workaholics must be addicted to workahol?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Yet another attempted phone scam. Are there more and more of these, or were we just spared them because we worked in an office & never had daytime calls?

And is it worth a separate thread to keep everyone up to date on them? I know we are all clever, & we'd never get caught, so we don't need one, do we...

We use Sky Talk for our landline; we never use it for outgoing calls and only my mother-in-law calls us on it.

But we got fed up with the scam and cold calls we were getting - some early in the day - so we have recently moved to Sky Pay-as-you-Go and had Sky Talk Shield activated.

As a result only calls from my M-i-L will get straight through - all 'bot' scam calls will be screened out and for scam/cold calls our phone will only ring if the caller introduces themselves to us - and of course we can just ignore them. Apparently most cold callers will not bother introducing themselves as they know they are wasting their time (or acting illegally by calling us).

And so two weeks since we had this set up all is delightful

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

If alcoholics are addicted to alcohol then workaholics must be addicted to workahol?

...and of course there is sobriety and soberiety

 

[Imurg]

If alcoholics are addicted to alcohol then workaholics must be addicted to workahol?

The one that always winds me up is fruit and fruition (frooishun) - why not frootshun?
Should be pronounced frooit not fruit
English language was invented by a sadist

 

[fundy]

Removals quote going up because we took so long from sale (and quote) to completion date

 

[USER1999]

Having a migraine while watching the golf on telly.

 

[anotherdouble]

Removals quote going up because we took so long from sale (and quote) to completion date

And that’s your fault because...... must happen to them all of the time. I have had a date booked and cancelled 3 times and now booked again with no extra charge.

 

[BrianM]

Removals quote going up because we took so long from sale (and quote) to completion date

Id be having strong words about that, shocking way to treat the customer.

 

[fundy]

And that’s your fault because...... must happen to them all of the time. I have had a date booked and cancelled 3 times and now booked again with no extra charge.

Id be having strong words about that, shocking way to treat the customer.

Was only a requote, weve agreed a number in the middle and them to provide more packing materials which am happy enough with to not have to go through finding someone else, just frustrating they feel that they can even do so (it was within their terms in fairness)

 

[Crazyface]

Applying for jobs. Constantly getting turned down by Tesco, for a role I'm already doing. Latest application is in for a role with the NHS for a role that I've done for 20+ years. Who thinks I'll get this one?

Not me. I'm convinced that it's an age thing.

 

[williamalex1]

Applying for jobs. Constantly getting turned down by Tesco, for a role I'm already doing. Latest application is in for a role with the NHS for a role that I've done for 20+ years. Who thinks I'll get this one?

Not me. I'm convinced that it's an age thing.

Surely you don't use your forum name and avatar