What I'm really happy about with the signings so far this window is their ages.
Last few seasons we have been going for young promising starlet kids from leagues above, or old pros looking to see out their careers with some promised game time.
This summer we have picked up some highly regarded players in their mid 20s, so in theory....in their prime or about to hit their prime.
Young enough to be full of youth, energy and passion, yet wise enough to hit the ground running and not have to be schooled too much by our more senior players.
I'm emphatically optimistic on a Couhig-level scale, given that we've retained most of the squad that finished last season so well, and look to have made some excellent quality signings to more than cover any gaps.
Top of the league by Christmas is my prediction.
For any fans of Birmingham, Wrexham, Rotherham, Bolton, Peterborough and Barnsley reading this, you'll be scrapping for 2nd place / playoff spots.
Spoke to a colleague this week whose boiler was playing up and delivering ‘lukecold water’.
More of a misspoken thing really. She’s memorably referred in the past to a George Formby Grill, the terror threat of ‘Alf Kaleeda’, and regularly catches a train to Pancreas. Not even St Pancreas - just Pancreas!
I'm not a big fan of when people make mistakes, but when my father-in-law meant to say 'bone fide' but actually said 'spina bifida' I had to excuse myself for a few minutes to piss myself laughing in the spare room.
If only I could find the article that someone wrote about Muse’s Supermassive Black Hole. ‘Grey shoes melting in the dead of night…it just doesn’t make any sense’. No, writer, just no.
If you’ve genuinely reached the point when most people say pacific instead of specific then the word has become pacific. Words are tools we use, we are their masters not the other way around. Dictionaries are collections not authorities.
I disagree completely. There is probably a majority of people who say 'should of' instead of should have, or 'loose' instead of lose, and so on ad infinitum.
That doesn't make it right, it's bad enough that Americans mis-spell and mis-pronounce the English language, without lazy British people doing it as well. If they had retained grammar schools nationwide, this sort of thing would be far less prevalent.
Pacific ocean is remarkable in that the letter ‘c’ is pronounced in three different ways.
Did you deliberately use ‘their’ instead of ‘they’re’ in your comment @TheAndyGrahamFanClub ?
@TheDancingYak got it absolutely right when he said I gotta let it go. Of course language evolves but when it turns into nonsense as a result of ignorance it does jar a bit.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised that I haven’t been derided for spouting a load of tosh totally unrelated to the thread. My post has actually led to some interesting follow ups which seems fair enough when we must be getting close to a situation where rumours are no longer relevant.
Best slip of the tongue possibly in human history goes to @LordMandeville who caused my father-in-law to lose control of his bowels when ordering putas rancheras at a restaurant in Taxco. What he was actually after was puntas rancheras, a delight to be savoured in a slightly different manner.
Surely the actual signings, covered all over social media and other threads are enough? Without you moaning at the musings of Wycombe's most handsome bunch of lyrical dons?
Americans, of course, don’t misspell English, they simply have a different standard usage.
I’m pretty sure @bargepole would say most people where I live mispronounce a lot of words. They perhaps do say them differently to how he would, but neither version is more correct than the other. The days where there was only one accent heard on the BBC are fortunately long behind us.
As a judge once said, it is one of the surest indexes of a mature and developed jurisprudence not to make a fortress out of the dictionary.
Ironic that you talk of ignorance of language and then go on to assert that Mercedes, a Spanish name, has three e’s each pronounced differently; the vowels in Spanish are always regular. You do make an attempt to pronounce Porsche as a German would though.
The Elkan Baggott link appears to have resurfaced on Twitter. Not sure where the link originally came from or whether it was actually a rumour or somebody just speculating about where he may end up.
Would be a loan deal if there’s anything in the story.
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How something originates isn’t particularly relevant, it’s how people use it that matters.
Interesting (?) discussion here https://grammarist.com/usage/another-think-coming/
The irony being that if they said the phrase correctly, they wouldn’t need to shorten it.
If all that matters is how people use something, then pacific is ok instead of specific, your instead of you're etc.
I didn't have you as a lyrical anarchist. You're the safe man of the gasroom.
In fairness we could have a separate thread about American annihilation of our language.
What I'm really happy about with the signings so far this window is their ages.
Last few seasons we have been going for young promising starlet kids from leagues above, or old pros looking to see out their careers with some promised game time.
This summer we have picked up some highly regarded players in their mid 20s, so in theory....in their prime or about to hit their prime.
Young enough to be full of youth, energy and passion, yet wise enough to hit the ground running and not have to be schooled too much by our more senior players.
I'm quietly optimistic for the season ahead.
I'm emphatically optimistic on a Couhig-level scale, given that we've retained most of the squad that finished last season so well, and look to have made some excellent quality signings to more than cover any gaps.
Top of the league by Christmas is my prediction.
For any fans of Birmingham, Wrexham, Rotherham, Bolton, Peterborough and Barnsley reading this, you'll be scrapping for 2nd place / playoff spots.
if you haven’t already read it (and I suspect you may have) I would highly recommend Bill Bryson’s ‘The Mother Tongue and How it got That Way’
Spoke to a colleague this week whose boiler was playing up and delivering ‘lukecold water’.
More of a misspoken thing really. She’s memorably referred in the past to a George Formby Grill, the terror threat of ‘Alf Kaleeda’, and regularly catches a train to Pancreas. Not even St Pancreas - just Pancreas!
I'm not a big fan of when people make mistakes, but when my father-in-law meant to say 'bone fide' but actually said 'spina bifida' I had to excuse myself for a few minutes to piss myself laughing in the spare room.
Tempted to take this thread on a tangent of the original tangent into 'misheard song lyrics', but will leave it for now!
Worked with an women who couldn't understand why prisoners were staging a sit in protest on the roof of "Safeways".
We had a good laugh, when we realised she meant Strangeways.
If only I could find the article that someone wrote about Muse’s Supermassive Black Hole. ‘Grey shoes melting in the dead of night…it just doesn’t make any sense’. No, writer, just no.
If you’ve genuinely reached the point when most people say pacific instead of specific then the word has become pacific. Words are tools we use, we are their masters not the other way around. Dictionaries are collections not authorities.
Jesus wept... saw 40 unread messages and got all excited !
Goodnight
I disagree completely. There is probably a majority of people who say 'should of' instead of should have, or 'loose' instead of lose, and so on ad infinitum.
That doesn't make it right, it's bad enough that Americans mis-spell and mis-pronounce the English language, without lazy British people doing it as well. If they had retained grammar schools nationwide, this sort of thing would be far less prevalent.
Pacific ocean is remarkable in that the letter ‘c’ is pronounced in three different ways.
Did you deliberately use ‘their’ instead of ‘they’re’ in your comment @TheAndyGrahamFanClub ?
@TheDancingYak got it absolutely right when he said I gotta let it go. Of course language evolves but when it turns into nonsense as a result of ignorance it does jar a bit.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised that I haven’t been derided for spouting a load of tosh totally unrelated to the thread. My post has actually led to some interesting follow ups which seems fair enough when we must be getting close to a situation where rumours are no longer relevant.
Thank you very much.
Best slip of the tongue possibly in human history goes to @LordMandeville who caused my father-in-law to lose control of his bowels when ordering putas rancheras at a restaurant in Taxco. What he was actually after was puntas rancheras, a delight to be savoured in a slightly different manner.
Gina working at Dynamo Bay was one I got wrong. Was disappointed at it being about a diner all day.
Surely the actual signings, covered all over social media and other threads are enough? Without you moaning at the musings of Wycombe's most handsome bunch of lyrical dons?
Or, does language turn into nonsense because of your ignorance of it’s evolution?
Also, Mercedes has three e’s all pronounced in a different way. Park a Porsche next to it and you have a 4th. Because it’s pronounced Porsch-ah
Americans, of course, don’t misspell English, they simply have a different standard usage.
I’m pretty sure @bargepole would say most people where I live mispronounce a lot of words. They perhaps do say them differently to how he would, but neither version is more correct than the other. The days where there was only one accent heard on the BBC are fortunately long behind us.
As a judge once said, it is one of the surest indexes of a mature and developed jurisprudence not to make a fortress out of the dictionary.
You say indexes, I say indices, let’s call the whole thing/think off.
PS I don’t really.
And I just love accents @Chris.
Ironic that you talk of ignorance of language and then go on to assert that Mercedes, a Spanish name, has three e’s each pronounced differently; the vowels in Spanish are always regular. You do make an attempt to pronounce Porsche as a German would though.
The Elkan Baggott link appears to have resurfaced on Twitter. Not sure where the link originally came from or whether it was actually a rumour or somebody just speculating about where he may end up.
Would be a loan deal if there’s anything in the story.
In doing a search for this I came across this link - but even though the article mentions Baggott as well, we are actually linked to El-Mizouni.
https://www.twtd.co.uk/amp/news/45156/mckenna-el-mizouni-set-for-loan-and-baggott-could-join-him
of course this is only one source.
An old English teacher of mine used to pronounce unknown as un-no-enn instead of the more usual un-nown.
Something that has bizarrely stayed with me for 30 years or so.
He did think a great insult was saying "you're rotten, I hope the weevils get you" though, so I never took too much notice!
Those weevils will strike when you least expect it!
That's brilliant - and tragic at the same time. Dynamo Bay would have been a wonderful lyric!
Always bet on the smaller one in a fight.
It's the lesser of two weevils.
Thank you @PBo for getting us back to the original thread - crash helmet on 🤕