Like

gilded, silvered and bronzed!

What about begild, begilded?

Any takers for bemedal, bepodium, begold? Slightly better with the 'be' than without it, n'est-ce pas?

Bedeck
Bedevil
Bedew
beget
begift
...

maniac i saw Miriam Margolis, it was very funny. He tried to explain that it was a short cut when expressing something, and she kept interrupting patiently, saying 'No, you don't need it'. The young pop star was Will I Am (I quite like him). BTW the 'like' nuisance usage isn't limited to the younger generation, the HR manager where I work is 50 and she does it all the time ..."I was like ... and then he was like, so I went like ..." I don't know how I keep a straight face sometimes when I am in meetings with her.

Heavens above! 'Commentator-speak'! They should be gagged forthwith.

Not only are we subjected to "to medal" during these Olympics, but also "to podium" and "to gold/silver/bronze"

'Like'-bespattered speech irritates me too, but it's just, like, a new cool dude thing for the younguns .

We saw "Thanks to all our donators" outside a charity shop last week. Their donors must be a bit put out...

JENI u always seem to hit the right spot .

Yup! It's me speak, innit?

Didn't that start out as a sort of hospital/nursing staff abbreviation, though, Faye?

When did bloods slip in, what happened to blood test.

Found Zara Phillips quite difficult to listen to, yesterday, without the odd cringe.

well better be getting on with work!

You are a card ! LOL

Examples of jargonisation. Should be incineratorised.

Medicalise,incentivise,just two of about six of these examples of mistreatment of the English language on radio 4 in the last two days! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

And what about 'th' - and perhaps absolutely

As it were! Grrrr

Where did the expression 'a space of time' come from? Think about it.

WOW, Oh My God and Amazing.
And does the letter T still exist?

I agree wholeheartedly with GillieB about 'medalling'. Surely the use of nouns as verbs, or verbs as nouns should be discouraged. Another of my pet hates is 'a big ask.'

I did hear an explanation for 'listen up', which was that 'listen' on its own was not enough to gain attention as your voice goes down on the second syllable.

I have to admit I dislike the use of 'like' when it is used to quote what someone said. For example, instead of saying : "I was saying xyz", they say "I was like xyx".

I also dislike the use of many words when one or two will do. The most famous one, I suppose, is 'at this moment in time' when they really mean 'now'.

When I worked in the civil service in the 60s and 70s I loved it when a certain little note was changed, which we used for forwarding paperwork that had been misdirected. The original one said something like: 'The accompanying communication appears to have been inadvertently sent to the wrong place and is therefore forwarded to you herewith, for appropriate action'. The new one said: 'This seems to be yours'.

A personal niggle is 'listen up'. We used to just 'listen' until the Americans got in on the act. I know, I know: language changes and there is lots of leakage between the various Englishes, which can be a good thing, but do we really have to add unnecessary words?