An early phrase that I loathe is "can I get" but a more recent one is the word curate which is used in place of collect, or select etc. Recent examples:
The Guardian" the BBC's failure to curate some news event responsibly"
A description of someone's collection of china pig money boxes (once given away free) as being "carefully curated"
A delicatessen which provides "a perfectly curated picnic"
To my mind the misuse of the word devalues the work of museum and gallery curators.
At Sainsbury’s a couple of days ago, a very young and very new cashier asked me “and how has your day been thus far” !! It was 8.30am!! Also hate the word ....lavatory....what’s wrong with loo??
I dislike the term Snowflake it's just rude and unnecessary My DS used to say go figure drove me insane and my DD would say mirror mirror when she was a teenager if I ever tried to comment on her behaviour
We have supper every evening! Dinner would be a more formal evening meal and we'd expect to have that if staying at a hotel or invited to a dinner party. Tea would be a cup of tea and a biscuit at about 4 O'clock. There has been a thread on regional variations of names for meals. Not much agreement!
We have dinner every evening. Quite frankly, I think I will change it to supper as it is quite exhausting to lay the table with damask tablecloth, napkins, silverware and candles each evening.
Not to mention the starching, ironing of tablecloths and napkins and the cleaning of the silverware each day.
Doesn't one of the footmen act up to cover your butler's absences? I look on it as training for one or other of them. They're obviously vieing for the top job. Sweet boys.
The trouble with a skeleton staff is the way the things you throw at them fall through their ribs. Not a pretty sight. DD says it's old-fashioned to throw things at the staff, but how else do you get them to behave?
Moist is horrible, chewbacca, I agree. There are books by Terry Pratchett, whose work I normally enjoy, which I find hard to read because one of the characters is called Moist. Why?
You alright there! especially from a shop assistant I usually say NO I'm not alright Thank You! What happened to a Good morning, can I help you change is good but only sometimes