Pence

Something, yes. Not necessarily a lot though.

Whatever the motivation, it tells you something about them, doesn't it?

Yes, but it could just be that they want to 'fit in', no ulterior motive.

(Not saying that's the case with politicians!)

And surely, if someone adopts an accent and language not natural to them, that tells you a lot about who they are.

As long as you can understand them, and they can say what they mean to say!

I am not troubled with how people speak, more interested in what they have to say

But Nige is not only talented but very witty and he sticks to what he believes!

Yes, Lilygran, you're right - a bit like Nigel Kennedy adopting an estuary English accent.

Blair immediately adopted any turn of speech that made him sound uneducated. To conceal his impressively privileged background.

My English grammar never was that good, so most of these pass me by, except "more dearer" etc (whatever the term is for this type of error)
Oh and by the way I never don't put both foots into each socks.

I don't get too stressed by 'pence' , rather it's double negatives that totally freak me out.

Re 'One pence', I remember being aghast to hear the PM, the Boy Blair, use the expression in a parliamentary speech. It can only be either Nursery level humour, or downright ignorance... akin to wearing socks on both foots.

Ah i see. Thank you

@Vampirequeen - The 'split infinitive' occurs in English because it can... that is, it's two words ('to go', 'to eat', 'to run') with a space between them, while all the major languages that surround us have a single word form (English 'to eat', French 'manger', Spanish 'comer', Italian 'mangiare' German 'essen'). Victorian grammarians, realizing that Latin infinitives weren't splittable either, decided it was therefore wrong to slip anything between the 'to' and the verb in English, which was rather silly of them.

Often a split infinitive is poor style, although sometimes it can't be improved - 'To boldly go....' is more elegant than 'Boldly to go...' or 'To go boldly...', isn't it?

Aah, sorry Nonnie I missed your point. I Did comment to DH that you'd typed Number number stoopid me.

Ana I was beginning to think I was the only one who could see it. So glad I am not alone.

Yes, that's the point I was making in my posts, Nonnie!

Many years ago the office I worked in sold International Student Identity Cards. They were known as ISIC Cards, while they should, of course, have been ISI Cards.

Nina nothing wrong with PIN it is PIN number I have the issue with. Personal Identification Number Number!

Unless we pronounced it 'pie'...

Not really, it could just be PI number. Only one syllable more!

PIN has always been used, since the facility became general use. I can't see it as something you'd need "to get used too" when that's the way it's always been. It's a bit long winded otherwise.

I wonder why people got used to saying 50 pee when they never said dee before that.can anyone lend me a sov?

I think I have got a bit used to pence in that respect but I can't get used to PIN number. I have even seen in written on bank literature!

Yes, but what do people say? Mrs. Grumppa still spends a penny; I go for a pee.