Language is constantly evolving. New words and assembled phrases constantly become commonplace. Some might not like the way they sound and how they are used whereas others and I’m going to say more youthful in society embrace them, taking them on and moving with the times. The internet and the speed at which we can communicate globally will only go to encourage this change. The Beatnik movement in American ‘50’s society saw the youth using words such as cool, dig, groovy, square and daddy-oh and you can bet your bottom dollar there was a thread on some motorcycle forum somewhere dedicated to outrageous misuse of the once beautiful language. ‘What you running’….. pah!
I love the way language changes, but sadly all too often it devolves rather than evolves because rather than words and phrases being creatively adapted, the changes occur because so many people are making the same mistake. A case in point is the transposition of loose/lose and “could of” rather than “could have” as those errors are now so commonplace that the incorrect form is used more often than the correct one. While I’m here. Another thing which really annoys me is when pretentious people use slang, accents or patterns of speech in order to ostentatiously signal membership of an in-group. It’s clumsy and cringey. Please stop.
It’s the Americanisation of the English language that I cannot stand or as I like to call it lazy English. It won’t be long until I hear someone at the marina call a buoy a boo-ee at which point I will run screaming into the river.
The latter is common on radio stations trying to appeal to a youthful audience. The university educated, middle class DJ, likely hailing from the surry hills, is doing their very best to sound 'street' bruv...
Similar to phone instead of the correct and full use telephone This country is going to hell in a hand cart I tell ye.
Aloominum Chassis should be pronounced as ‘sh’ rather than ‘ch’ Carburater (is how they say it). It’s derived from ‘burette’ you CVNTS!
The American pronunciations of aluminium (aloominum) and Worcestershire (Warsestershyer) Edit: I’d somehow missed that you’d already mentioned aluminium. I’ve been nursing a sick dog all week who has been waking me up every hour each night by walking over my face, I’ve been up since 420am, I’m so tired that I’m sitting here waiting for a court hearing by video link to start and I’m starting to hallucinate.
Sick. What’s with sick if it’s good? Having just spent a month down under with quite a few youngsters, I noticed this word bandied about a lot. Daft shites…
Zoomers like my kids been saying that for the best part of a decade, but in its defence, Australia is pretty backward. You should hear what the kids in New Zealand are saying - they’re still lounging around in corduroy jackets, smoking French cigarettes, reciting beat poetry and calling each other “daddio”
Try these alternative word definitions: Acoustic = A Scottish cattle prod Acropolis = A Polite Greek haircut Advent = Man shouting about his hatred of Xmas commercials. Aerofoil = A chocolate wrapper Aperitif = Dentures Avoidable = What a bullfighter tries to do Behemoth = Insect which eats holes in your jumpers, then fills them with honey Biassed = Having four buttocks Blemish = The official language of Belgium Boing = Maker of rubber aeroplanes Buccaneer = Fee American pirates pay for their piercings Bumbling = Jewellery for the buttocks Bungee = Next one after buneff Canary = Hirsute can Celery = Bit like a cellar Coffee = Person on whom one coughs Collier = Like a collie but more so Canopy = A tin of urine Cashew = Bank teller with a cold Cherish = Rather like a chair Chestnuts = The result of choosing a bad plastic surgeon. Crimbo = Presents wrapped by a prisoner Dandelion = A fashionably dressed big cat Decoration = Speech by one half of Ant & Dec. Deduce = Squeeze de lemon Dogmatic = A dog with a torque converter Dreadlocks = Phobia of canals Eczema = Mother you gave away Egalitarian = One who only eats birds of prey Legend = A foot Emanuel = Little book explaining how to work your E-present Erection = Japanese way of choosing a parliament Ethics = County near Suthics Farage = Garage that won’t fix French or German cars Frankincense = To really infuriate someone called Frank Gastric = Raising energy prices without telling anybody Gladiator = Unrepentant cannibal Grating = Jamaican elephant Gringo = Mexican traffic lights Heehaw = A male prostitute Himalayas = Hermaphrodite chickens Hindsight = Builder’s cleavage Inferno = Assume not Information = How geese fly Inflate = Her Majesty’s plane has taken orf Innuendoes = Italian suppositories Insolent = Fallen off the Isle of Wight ferry Lambada = Young sheep with tin legs Lancelot = Doctor working on a plague of boils Longitude = You need to cut it up more Menacing = A male voice choir Mystical = Daughter of Mr Tickle O'clock = An Irish clock Pensive = Thing you can write with while you are draining the veg Polygamy = Ancient Japanese art of wife-folding Po-pourri = Aroma of dried Teletubby Purgatory = To slip a laxative into David Cameron’s coffee Pyromaniac = Obsessed with glass oven dishes Relief = What trees do in Spring Robin = What the bloke down the pub you bought that dirt cheap phone off was doing yesterday Roulette = A tiny rule Shire = Downpour in the home counties Sluicegate = Somerset for ‘This gate belongs to Lou’ Smirk = Somerset for ‘It’s a Mercedes’ Spectator = Short-sighted potato Splinter = Chinese 100 metre runner Stylist = Pig farmer’s inventory Symbolic = Prosthetic testicle Tamper = Container for a Yorkshire picnic Tinker = Thoughtful Irishman Trifle = Yorkshire gun Trouble = Yorkshire building waste Twerk = What they do in Yorkshire between 9 and 5 Twig = Yorkshireman's toupee Warbling = Jewellery worn in combat Wifi = The eye of a wife Yule log = The inevitable effects of too much Xmas dinner. Whiskey = Bit like a whisk
