It really gets up my goat!

The same grandmother, after a flood in her house, told me she had had 'one of those dehumanisers' installed to dry the place out.

My grandmother returned from one of her many trips to the USA and told us all that a friend of her daughter had been 'bugged' and her purse had been stolen.

I'll bet she was bugged!

A friend was in hospital last week for investigations on her gall bladder. I saw a mutual friend on Friday who told me that she had had the operation and they had managed to do it with fibre optics, not the traditional cutting open method! (I think she meant keyhole but didn't like to suggest that!)

grumppa

Jewlery
Nucular

petallus two funny

Not sure why trov hasn't appeared in bold.

Con*trov*ersy
Dayity
Nefew
Meegrain
Ishoo
Ett

Late lamented MIL:

was convinced the local Japanese car dealership sold Mitsuboobies,

drank semiskilled milk,

and was very sorry for people who suffered from osteopsoriasis.

See, that's what the grammar police do, make the rest of us terrified that if we do a typo it will be assumed we can't spell.

too

How did you guess?

I don't sleep well but actually it wasn't to bad last night. I slept from 10 - 2 and then 4- 6.

You finding it difficult to sleep Petallus?

There is considerably less of me since I started walking!

I was thinking the same as Aka

Are you sure there aren't ten of you Greatnan

I wasn't a one parent family, Aka - at least , not until I got divorced when my daughters were 14 and 16. Yes, I have had a very interesting life - I have a low boredom threshold! I didn't always change careers voluntarily - I had to sell my conveyancing business when the law was changed in 1987. I was a late starter, having married at 18 and had children in my early twenties, so I was 31 when I completed my first degree and started teaching. I left after nine years, having become Head of a large remedial service. (That was what it was called, before anyone makes a comment!) I then worked for a retired English company director in Monaco, and had a spell in Brussels as a financial consultant before returning to England and setting up my business. I was almost 50 when I joined the Inland Revenue as a graduate trainee tax inspector.
I retired to France in 2002 and will end up in New Zealand - but not yet!

* Greatnan* you seem to have fitted more careers, degrees and travels into your life than I'd have thought possible especially having had your girls so young and being a one-parent family.
Respect.

Kiropodist. By analogy with other words derived from Greek such as charisma.

How do you pronounce chiropodist or do you opt out and say podiatrist? Are they one and the same thing anyway?

No, I don't have a cleaner for my tiny flat, but I had one for our large house when I was a head teacher and also studying for a higher degree and chauffeuring around two daughters. Why not?
It is just a matter of historical chance that words are pronounced in a certain way in the home counties. There is no right or wrong about it.
I have lost much of my Salford accent, having left Lancashire when I was 22, but when I was teaching and lecturing the important thing was to speak clearly and be understood. There is much snobbery still about accents - I found it quite funny when Tony Blair tried to 'dumb down' his RP accent - very patronising!

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oh yes the little tomato inside is very edible, I love them Kittylester.

Same as nightowl - sometimes 8 and sometimes et - depends on the sentence!

Same as jane and nightowl for the pronunciations.

Thinking about it, sometimes 8 sometimes et.
Fascinating conversations on the web about whether et is posh or common.
I remember my electrocution teacher giving me hell about thea-tre and not thea-eter.

jane we are speaking the same language . Despite my odd beginnings.