I'm sure these are made up, still funny though
jenny barron
Sunny NE Scotland
Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he
put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: Free to good home you
want it, you take it.
For three days the fridge sat
Alice,
There are a few expressions which have crept into Australian English
(goodness knows from where) that really bug the pedants. These
include such phrases as:
- growing an economy, where the verb to grow seems to have
replaced those such as: to develop, improve, increase, enlarge,
Dear Thurlow,
Do not speak of that of about which we talk of not speaking about.
A fabulous convolution, but what was wrong with:
Do not speak about that of which we are not speaking, or are not
permitted to speak
I suppose it was the fact that this was a spoof and the writers were
trying
Sorry , I do believe it clashes with Biggleswade Lace Day.
Anne
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The one that has crept into American English that irritates me is the
use of impacted instead of affected. For example, People were
impacted by the weather. What's wrong with People were *affected* by
the weather. (Unless, of course, people were in the path of a large
meteorite, in which
My small, local ISP had a glitch over the weekend; I was able to
receive mail but unable to send out any. The offices are closed over
the weekend and, naturally, the glitch didn't happen till after 5PM on
Friday... *Very* frustrating to see a conversation on language going on
and being unable
Because of my tech-glitch which happened over the weekend, this is
coming in a day later than intended; Mother's Day in US was yesterday.
But it's still funny, I think, even the day after.
From: N.N.
The author of this gem is unknown.
So, we had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who
