Thursday, 22 October 2015

Bad language

The Queen's English (well actually she's of German lineage). Some of its mis-usages do make me giggle. I remember one woman pronouncing tribunal as tribuneral. I love the creeping apostrophe and its general misuse, for example chip's instead of chips.  The latest one I keep seeing is hilarious; St Pancreas instead of St Pancras! I wonder of other languages are also subjected to such mistreatment, or whether it is a uniquely British phenomenon.

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