tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post5100659806653955018..comments2024-03-29T09:47:24.234+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: GrrrrrYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-70396109473259862902014-02-11T11:50:04.978+00:002014-02-11T11:50:04.978+00:00Good then Red. I hope these language aberrations d...Good then Red. I hope these language aberrations don't reach America.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54433272107922697192014-02-11T01:45:12.879+00:002014-02-11T01:45:12.879+00:00I've never heard "was sat" or "...I've never heard "was sat" or "was stood." Those are new expressions to me. Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996243850279671523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-30240194084574567562014-02-10T23:34:57.839+00:002014-02-10T23:34:57.839+00:00I had never heard the word "youse" befor...I had never heard the word "youse" before Helen. Is it aboriginal - perhaps a now extinct marsupial?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-56873765456820481452014-02-10T23:33:26.819+00:002014-02-10T23:33:26.819+00:00Oh dear Ade Edmondson, you appear to be tying your...Oh dear Ade Edmondson, you appear to be tying yourself in syntactical knots! See me in my study after school and I suggest you stuff an atlas down your trews!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-81130487987134411772014-02-10T23:30:52.316+00:002014-02-10T23:30:52.316+00:00Not yet Rhino. We are playing them on Tuesday nigh...Not yet Rhino. We are playing them on Tuesday night, Revenge will be sweet.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-32748911170604091772014-02-10T23:29:45.300+00:002014-02-10T23:29:45.300+00:00Without we proper language warriors, communication...Without we proper language warriors, communication would recede to the gruntings of Neanderthals. God save the apostrophe! Long live the difference between "your" and "you're"! Death to those who confuse "its" with "it's"! (Perhaps the last one is going a bit too far).Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-59288003639488014862014-02-10T22:39:43.995+00:002014-02-10T22:39:43.995+00:00Using "sat" in this way is not something...Using "sat" in this way is not something you hear in Australia unless someone of English or Scottish origin is speaking. However you do hear the use of the word " youse" . I hate this and have always considered it wrong but was appaulled recently when it was accepted in the online Scrabble-type word game "Words with Friends" ! I immediately looked it up to find it is (debatably )recognised as a real word not just awful slang !!!Helsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136273834165751276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-70714008623879400152014-02-10T22:37:56.139+00:002014-02-10T22:37:56.139+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Helsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136273834165751276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-17906206363357426502014-02-10T19:58:35.815+00:002014-02-10T19:58:35.815+00:00PS. That know should be a no. I added the 'k&#...PS. That know should be a no. I added the 'k' and 'w' to make me sound illiteratingADRIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113961163396562781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-86334660273074537162014-02-10T19:56:17.980+00:002014-02-10T19:56:17.980+00:00I too hate folk mistaking sat for sitting. I alway...I too hate folk mistaking sat for sitting. I always thought that adding an 'ing made it present tense, while not adding an 'ing' made it past or possibly past historical tense. I have know idea what I'm talking about so will shut up and leave these learned folk to it.<br />I did buy a copy of Usage and Abusage. I used to consult it so thating I did not appearing to be ( that is the future tense) moroning.ADRIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113961163396562781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-83548347427489793442014-02-10T18:58:00.705+00:002014-02-10T18:58:00.705+00:00The same gnashings of teeth occur when i hear such...The same gnashings of teeth occur when i hear such nonsense as "watching Hull City thrash Southampton".<br />Let's face it, it's geographically unlikely, given that Southamptons almost as far south as you can get in England, and Hull's firmly attached to the north bank of the Humber. I seem to recall, long ago, reading a Sci-Fi story about a vast city which was mobile, roaming the earth's surface in search of resources. Hull is not that city. Hull is sedentary. Sedimentary, too. <br />And I won't even bother taking you to task on the fact that Hull is a river, not a city. A fairly boring little mudbath of a river too. The city around it is Kingston.<br /><br />(d'Jamaica? No, she went of her own accord! Boom-Boom!!!!)<br />soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-79567143586356343922014-02-10T18:47:14.252+00:002014-02-10T18:47:14.252+00:00"Irregardless" is a disturbingly common ..."Irregardless" is a disturbingly common usage in the U.S.<br />I think it's because many people don't think..........................<br /><br />I had a more complex sentence in mind, but the rest was redundant. Many people don't think.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-27263018526138271922014-02-10T18:27:23.663+00:002014-02-10T18:27:23.663+00:00Hull thrashed Southampton? Crikey!Hull thrashed Southampton? Crikey!Hippohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468795398813061897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-84486104957059120732014-02-10T18:23:35.747+00:002014-02-10T18:23:35.747+00:00It's only a few days ago that I went on a rant...It's only a few days ago that I went on a rant in a comment over at GB's about using words wrongly, wrong spelling, wrong use of the apostrophe, and so on. I am not going to start yet another rant, but you surely have me on your side, Sir, noble defender of proper language!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-82826018020065463272014-02-10T18:17:55.085+00:002014-02-10T18:17:55.085+00:00May I suggest a stuffed cat - as opposed to a livi...May I suggest a stuffed cat - as opposed to a living one. This would make sitting the cat easier and you wouldn't have to buy cans of evil-smelling cat food either!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-72129608837115636262014-02-10T18:16:27.060+00:002014-02-10T18:16:27.060+00:00He would have said "Forsooth Lord of the Hebr...He would have said "Forsooth Lord of the Hebrides, hold thy codpiece!"Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-6381298931834913452014-02-10T18:09:54.187+00:002014-02-10T18:09:54.187+00:00Given that in Shakespeare's time there was no ...Given that in Shakespeare's time there was no 'ing' what would he have said?GBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10289400344300258872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-80314528411866179622014-02-10T14:20:50.025+00:002014-02-10T14:20:50.025+00:00To be fair, our cat is sometimes sat on the mat, b...To be fair, our cat is sometimes sat on the mat, by me, when I lift her out of the way and plonk her down where she's less likely to be trodden on. <br /><br />But I agree. MorningAJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04719744167307369768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-21292974454086818712014-02-10T13:41:58.329+00:002014-02-10T13:41:58.329+00:00Yaaay! Peace brother Peace and luv! LOL! Ilreardle...Yaaay! Peace brother Peace and luv! LOL! Ilreardless of what you had went and said, I shall continue to fight for Standard English, raising my standard high as the battle against slovenliness rages by the foaming waters of the River Brague.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-54923795020489528852014-02-10T13:23:21.738+00:002014-02-10T13:23:21.738+00:00A former pastor of mine, a man with a master's...A former pastor of mine, a man with a master's degree, said "had went" - now THAT drove me crazy.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-91888766172565650972014-02-10T13:21:05.307+00:002014-02-10T13:21:05.307+00:00spokenspokenrhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-67842627652754835932014-02-10T13:19:52.822+00:002014-02-10T13:19:52.822+00:00But Guv'nah, you said it yourself: "The l...But Guv'nah, you said it yourself: "The language is forever evolving - not just through the addition of new vocabulary but also through changes to previously accepted grammatical constructions." We (you and I) can no more stop that than Cnut could stop the tide. I am nearer to my state funeral than you, so perhaps I am farther down the philosophical road to peace. I used to be outraged by bad grammar all around me; nowadays I find it almost charming. Ignorant, but charming. My own father invented a word unwittingly and used it all the time - "ilregardless" - that as far as I know was never spoke by anytone else. It disappeared, yes, but it existed for a time in the mouth of my father. It used to drive me crazy but now I smile when I think of it. <br /><br />No, do not condone abuse, but perhaps change your definition of what abuse is.<br /><br />Peace, brother.<br /> rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.com