"Word/Phrase of the Day"

[mickthemaverick]

Isn't that the reaction of the average American sparky, when the wife complains about the smell of flux?

[Michel]

This was a new one that I heard today, as a exclamation of surprise..

"F**k my old Aunt Agatha's dead pussycat!"

It is without doubt the best bit of vulgarity I've heard for quite some time.

[CitroJim]

We and the Yanks... Two nations divided by a common language...

Maybe not for much longer as the youngsters are increasingly using American English as shown by the increasing use of elevator and sidewalk for example...

We'll be giving up using the letter U next... And using letter sized paper in our printers Still maybe one beneficial side effect is we in the UK return to a proper system of measurements

Do the Yanks cut a thread using a faucet or a tap I wonder?

[CitroJim]

"F**k my old Aunt Agatha's dead pussycat!"

It is without doubt the best bit of vulgarity I've heard for quite some time.

I like that, mind you, I've been using "F**k my old tall hat!" to register extreme surprise for most of my adult life now!

[myglaren]

It irritates me that American spelling as default keeps creeping in with updates.

Only this morning, an American site, it would have it that cheques should be quiches.
And tyres/tires grinds my gears. Sick and tyred of it

I worked with someone who was very precious about using correct English and always called Aluminium 'Aloooominuminum'.

[CitroJim]

Yep, tire is by far the worst Steve.. No dispute there!

[myglaren]

Even worse that they can't distinguish the difference between 'tire' and 'wheel'.

Tiresome.

[Rp0thejester]

I have a major bug bare with American/English language. Americans speak American it's not English, it's a second hand copy by people that went over there on boats who couldn't spell

[NewcastleFalcon]

Doesn't have to be English.

My word of the day is...

MAGNETOPHONBAND

Source
viewtopic.php?p=779690#p779690

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

8 letter word somewhere inside must be OKM in consecutive letters.

Can be anywhere in the 8 letter word.

On your marks, get set, go!

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Bookmark?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Bookmark?

Correct, the other one this week was a bit easy AR RK

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Ode to the ardvark
A creature strange to me
Does it live in open ground
Or is it hard to see?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Ode to the ardvark
A creature strange to me
Does it live in open ground
Or is it hard to see?

I think that was the trap Mick. Aardvark is an 8-letter word with a double A at the start. The right word is easy enough once aardvark is ruled out...

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I thought my little verse was a piece of literary artwork!!