Going forward!

You mean he invented a new way of jumping over the bar back in the day! I dislike "back in the day", and I also dislike seeing "I should of done it" which seems to be the accepted form even in many novels nowadays. Another annoyance is "couple" instead of "couple of" meaning two of a kind, particularly noticed in American novels (Stephanie Plum novels being an example, but perhaps that is New Jersey Speak). Oh dear, I do sound grumpy.

ok , that's the last time I post something I thought was funny on this thread. So there. Humph.

High-jumper who invented a new way of jumping over the bar in 1968.

Youtube video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id4W6VA0uLc

Who is Dick Fosbury [flop fame????]Oh it's sport [know nothing about that but he certainly has a high opinion of himself.]

Slightly changing tack, anyone else getting annoyed with the advertisement featuring Dick Fosbury (of Flop fame) ?

He states that his high jump technique changed the world What? I don't think so!

I agree, Grannyknot. 'Forward' makes no sense at all!

I think I feel like having a lie down now.So, I shall go and 'roll out' my duvet while 'reaching out to' a pillow, and 'going forward' to my bed.

There you go, sorted!

Yes! In policy documents at work, sometimes even in books. And then I think "What happened to FOREWORD which makes perfect sense, "before the word".

That's what I was thinking...but where are you seeing Forward when it should be Foreword all the time, Grannyknot? Do they actually use Forward as the heading?

Yes there is a difference as per Elegran - so surely the piece in the front of a book is a "Foreword" not a "Forward"?

No, I was implying that there is a difference, and that is why they are spelt differently.

Perhaps it's Grannyknot's post I don't understand!

Well, yes, I knew that. Elegran was implying that there was no difference between the two words, though...

ForEwOrd - preface to a book or other writing

ForwArd - to move in a direction that is not backwards.

Well, please explain it to me, then!

I did. Well, I think I did!

I don't understand your post, Elegran!

I hate 'going forward' but the other day I heard Ed Milliband say 'shine a light on' far too many times in one interview. [grrrr]

I think many of the phrases that grate on me come from the MBA courses that lots of people seem to do these days. I hate "going forward" too.

Is there a difference in the two? "Foreword" for the text/words that precede the main book, and "forward" like "backward" and "upward" ?

I see "Forward" all the time where it used to be "FOREWORD" e.g. in a book.

Sports expression? Certainly sports commentators and personalities are beset with these phrases that they use to keep the flow of words going.
Private Eye used to run a great column called Colman Balls e.g. its a game of two halves.
Best one i ever heard was
Now the princess is kissing the cox of the Oxford team.