Is it only me that goes grrr at this phrase?

Don’t get me started on irritating sayings - not enough time left in this ‘old years’ to write them down!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL GNs.

Yet another Americanism that has crept in !

I received an email from an online company asking,
‘How would you describe your father?’
I replied - honestly, ‘Dead.’
They did apologise.

American words and phrases do my head in!! I hate them.

If you turned off emails from supermarkets your equanimity might not have to suffer such annoyances.

My emails from firms seem to go into a junk folder, I suddenly realise that I have about 300+ emails which need deleting.

I've kept my inner pedant in check lately but could not control myself when, yet again, I heard a school choir in my town centre singing:

"Good Tidings We Bring to You and Your KING"

FFS - it's KIN.

I told the teacher/choir leader off. .

I know it's awful of me but FFS it's easy enough to check.

You actually told them off?

Perhaps it was just a typing error.

No plans for the New Year. At my age will just wait and see.

Of course 'Auld Lang Syne' is the Burns song. 'Zyne' doesnt make any sense at all in any language.

oldglimmer I had bit of a rant about Away in a Manger - singing “little baby Jesus” instead of “little Lord Jesus”. It’s a hymn, sing the correct words or find a non-denominational song instead if it offends you!

Love it oldgimmer1 there are times when you just have to say something.

If you want to make yourself look like a complete fool, then yes - go ahead and say something.

That teacher has probably rehearsed with the choir for ages and has filled in eleventy billion bits of paper in order to take them off the school premises, the families have dutifully listened to the practise at home, the children have no doubt been quite apprehensive about appearing in public - and one auld wifie couldn't find anything else to do other than moan about an erroneous G and tell off another adult.

FFS is right.

I saw a sign yesterday in a local garden centre, and it really irritated me - ‘gateaux’s £3.50’!!! Wish I dared tell them it should just be ‘gateaux’!

I'm not keen on some of these new expressions either but I guess language evolves all the time. I have just used the words "I guess" and that is an American phrase that people use more and more now.

The one that gives me high blood pressure is "slaw" instead of coleslaw. Grrrrrr.

Well I never!

I have sung 'To you and your King' for years
I've never seen it written down.

I will try to remember if I ever sing it again.
I assumed 'King' meant baby Jesus.

gateaux's is wrong on so many levels!! shrieks in pain

...and no it can never be Zyne

I’ve just had a “go” at M&S on their FB site

Similarly annoyed by their Sparks e-mails where they have started using emojis and sloppy, unbusinesslike message headings.

Looks like they have let a 16 year old loose in the marketing department...

Auld Lang Zyne' as usually sung at parties is a different song from Burns's 'Auld Lang Syne'' although the former is adapted from the latter

No,it isn’t, it’s just mispronounced. And never spelt “Zyne”.
Burns wrote the original poem which was set to first one (IMO rather dreary) tune, then I believe an American popularised the current setting in the early 1900’s
And south of the Border they only sing the first couple of verses. ?

I’ve lived in Scotland for many, many years and I don’t think I’ve ever sung more than the first couple of verses of Auld Lang Syne. I’m willing to bet that not many people up here could sing much more of the song off by heart!

So fun, is one of mine

I hate it but surely it’s short for New Year’s (Eve) not a plural of New Year

Scottish singer Mairi Campbell had a Fringe show called
"Auld Lang Syne" it was brilliant! She had us all singing, with the words, at the end. Here she is:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWT-4UTwdE8