It really gets up my goat!

"Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008

In Australia, Abbot who said something like he was not the suppository of all wisdom.

I love that waitress!

She was called Ethel and she was ordinal pure Black Country. She used to look after 'her Doctors' really well when we came in and wouldn't let anybody else serve us!
A bit better than the kitchen porter at the hospital I did my preregistration jobs in.
One day lunch was very late. He apologised saying 'sorry lunch is late, I had to wait for a body to come into the mortuary!'
It was liver for lunch!

Ordinal? Original!

An Induction course at work- my colleague said, "come on we've got to go and be induced."

Like it ! . Brings back memories !

My cleaner got an enormous letter.
I am puzzled about the pronunciation of almond without the 'l'.
I say all-mond. What else would it be - awe-mond?

ah-muhnd

I say a*l*mond too, but don't pronounce the 'l' in alms. It depends what dialect you speak. I don't pronounce the 'oop' in up north, but nether do I say 'op' which many southern people say. I love our language - it's endlessly fascinating.

Correct pronunciation v dialect.

You have

... a cleaner Greatnan

The l like the r, makes itself heard on the west side of the Pennines.

But why is it correct? Who says so? The BBC? Oxbridge? Court circles?

London took the moral high ground on what is "correct" because the court and government were there, and people thronged there from all over the country, but the linguistic superiority was only because of the numbers of those who adopted that local variation of dialect over the one they left behind. Then the Beeb spoke to the nation in the voice of the upper classes. to the rest it was "received pronunciation".

Ah-mund. No-one pronounces the 'l' in salmon...or do they?

It depends where you grew up, anno. Manchester and much of the north-west say it with the l.

It's just occurred to me that some say orl-mond and others say ol-mond (I do) so even more variation round here!

My mother offered me some syphillis to eat. I'll leave you to work it out.

oh and apparently if my stepfather's daughter didn't go into labour she was to go into hospital to be "seduced"

That doesn't make it correct when

Apparently John Prescott loves travelling but is always happy when his feet are back on terracotta.

Do you eat scons or scowns?

I grow syphillis in the garden, apparently, but I didn't know that they were edible.

But I do support your right to mispronounce any word if you prefer to do so.