I saw a sign in Waterstones (who, funnily enough, removed their apostrophe a few years ago) noting how the book The Hard Yards featured 'Wycombe Wonders'. I pointed it out to them; they never changed it as far as I could tell. What can you do?! 🤷
Well I'm half American, so I am copping to being half crazy. I guess I might as well throw myself under the bus, as I could get hit by a bus tomorrow...
There will come an "Aha" moment when you realize the Gasroom is actually a gathering of the keenest philosophical and grammatical minds of the 21st century, and that this Wycombe Wanderers business is a smokescreen.
‘The amount of people’ (rather than the number) used to really grate on me but it has now become so commonplace that I simply grin and bear it. The rule used to be that if something could be counted (eg paving slabs) ‘number’ was correct; if it could be weighed but not counted (eg sand) ‘amount’ was correct.
I’ve not been in Morrisons for about a year but there was a sign over one checkout the last time I was there (well actually only in the general vicinity of it) that was intended to speed things up for shoppers with fewer than ten items. I’m not sure what annoyed me more - the fact that it said “10 items or less” or people with trolleys containing two or three times that number who claimed that they’d not seen the sign (occasionally quite genuinely I expect, given the poor positioning of said sign).
Basically nothing. My school had upwardly mobile pretensions, being in a posh area, but had to accept a small number of kids from my poor working class town every year (Hatfield). They would blatantly treat us differently - I was suspended twice for situations where other kids were involved and received no punishment at all (a group of us leaving the grounds to play guitar, getting in a fight with two posh kids). There was later some kind of "Young Enterprise" initiative where students learned about economics by setting up a company, and I was a bit sweary in a board meeting. At first they said they were sending me home for it, which was shocking. They then upgraded it to a suspension, and then changed their mind again and expelled me.
Obviously nothing wrong in being posh, as long as it not accompanied by inequity!
Tjay De Barr can operate as a winger and did so for the majority of his last season at Lincoln Red Imps, as they had Kike Gómez as their first choice striker. He's also moved out wide for the national team on occasion when part of a front 3 with Reece Styche leading the line.
The last two @ChasHarps sound extremely posh when said inside my head. Is there something for Widmer End for when I fully retire to up my property value a few 000's? Maybe something along the lines of a Widemoor End. 🤔
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There is a reason why an errant apostrophe is known as ‘the grocer’s apostrophe’!
I saw a sign in Waterstones (who, funnily enough, removed their apostrophe a few years ago) noting how the book The Hard Yards featured 'Wycombe Wonders'. I pointed it out to them; they never changed it as far as I could tell. What can you do?! 🤷
I was making the point that Americans be crazy. :)
A fair point.
But not one that needed any sort of clearing up 😂
Eugh.... 🙄
I hate when a thread gets so off point. Having to scroll past the mindless nonsense chat really is so annoying 🤷😅
Well I'm half American, so I am copping to being half crazy. I guess I might as well throw myself under the bus, as I could get hit by a bus tomorrow...
There will come an "Aha" moment when you realize the Gasroom is actually a gathering of the keenest philosophical and grammatical minds of the 21st century, and that this Wycombe Wanderers business is a smokescreen.
Agreed.
Threads should be full of comments like this one you made below on the Wing thread 🤗
"Really??? It conjured up the image of a second rate chicken and Chips shop, down the back streets of a grotty town to me"
Thank goodness you'd replied to this, I was hyperventilating too much to respond.
‘The amount of people’ (rather than the number) used to really grate on me but it has now become so commonplace that I simply grin and bear it. The rule used to be that if something could be counted (eg paving slabs) ‘number’ was correct; if it could be weighed but not counted (eg sand) ‘amount’ was correct.
I’ve not been in Morrisons for about a year but there was a sign over one checkout the last time I was there (well actually only in the general vicinity of it) that was intended to speed things up for shoppers with fewer than ten items. I’m not sure what annoyed me more - the fact that it said “10 items or less” or people with trolleys containing two or three times that number who claimed that they’d not seen the sign (occasionally quite genuinely I expect, given the poor positioning of said sign).
Am I okay to say "I couldn't care less" about all this fewer versus less nonsense?
I love writing, but get a lot of it wrong. Getting expelled from school did not help with my formal edumacation!
What did you get expelled for?
Telling the headmaster that he was “fewer than useless”
Good job you didn’t tell him he was worse than useless @Shev .
Basically nothing. My school had upwardly mobile pretensions, being in a posh area, but had to accept a small number of kids from my poor working class town every year (Hatfield). They would blatantly treat us differently - I was suspended twice for situations where other kids were involved and received no punishment at all (a group of us leaving the grounds to play guitar, getting in a fight with two posh kids). There was later some kind of "Young Enterprise" initiative where students learned about economics by setting up a company, and I was a bit sweary in a board meeting. At first they said they were sending me home for it, which was shocking. They then upgraded it to a suspension, and then changed their mind again and expelled me.
Obviously nothing wrong in being posh, as long as it not accompanied by inequity!
"Obviously nothing wrong in being posh"
What about Peterborough?
Tjay De Barr can operate as a winger and did so for the majority of his last season at Lincoln Red Imps, as they had Kike Gómez as their first choice striker. He's also moved out wide for the national team on occasion when part of a front 3 with Reece Styche leading the line.
Beak-onsfield is correct. Bekonsfield is an early example of the Claam, Baam and St. Reatham school of pronunciation.
(hides behind the sofa)
When I was a kid the old boy who did our garden had lived in the town all his life, proper old Chiltern accent. He pronounced it Becknsfeld
Correct Bucks pronoucations
Bekonsfield
Flackall
Homer Green
Laid water
Daynley
The last two @ChasHarps sound extremely posh when said inside my head. Is there something for Widmer End for when I fully retire to up my property value a few 000's? Maybe something along the lines of a Widemoor End. 🤔
Got to be Widmer rend.
Another one is Taartridge
Stokncurch
I know plenty of Flackwell Heathens who refer to it as "Frackell"
Actually, "Frackle" would be a better spelling
It's Beakensfilled - as its pronounced all over the country for the hundreds of roads named after the Earl
It could be a lot worse.
I’ve reminded myself of the folk music record label - Folk All.