Is it only me that goes grrr at this phrase?

I want to scream when couples say we are pregnant, no she is pregnant, he is going to be a father but he can’t be pregnant.
Please give us women a little bit of praise for being pregnant without him trying to say he is.

Grannylyn why come into Pedants corner if you dislike it so much.

And " fell pregnant " Lesley60 how does that happen ?

Somethink.
Off of.
I want to share my feelings.
Waleses.

Guys
Just a few of my hates .

Waleses?

What is the plural of a surname ending in 'es' or 's'?
I would say The Joneses, The Hugheses

So does the Oxford English Dictionary

I thought it was The Jones’

No, well not according to the OED

We could just refer to The Jones Family!

One thing that has cropped up recently and which drives me crazy is saying:”Come over to mine/ours at 7 o’clock.” My/our what???
As for “Let’s go down the pub”, well, in Wales, where I come from, the more prepositions the better! “Come over to down by ‘ere!” (I actually have heard someone say that!

grannylyn65 Tue 31-Dec-19 15:51:20
So bored with pedantry

Such a good reason for reading Pedants’ Corner!

Actually Phoebes it's ' down by year' Year ( as pronounced) is used for here, ear and year. Take your pick. ?

By year did [confuse] me when I first moved down by year

Had an email from Charles Clinkard shoes exclaiming "Nina good news, you have reward points totalling £0 , come in store and enjoy !".
Still puzzling over why this is good news.

Does anyone else say "Old Year's Night". My mother does - she's 95.

Oh wow ninarose you are a lucky one, all that money to spend on shoes.

I rather like ‘where’s it too’? Devonian speak.

I'm Canadian and nobody talks about
Americanisms or UK English sayings because nobody actually cares.

Globalisation, various forms of media and the Internet have made the world such a tiny place.

Did you know that Americans and Canadians account for 70% of the world's native English speakers?

People from the UK are only 17% of the native English speaking population; so this is a big reason why Americanisms are winning amongst the youth.

W'ere be to, me 'andsum?
Thought you be to the New Year 'op?

Canadians speak properly though, don't they?
The ones I know do, none of yer brash Americanisms

Language is for ever changing, if it wasn't we would all be speaking in a very different manner to the way we do now. I have no idea why people become so offended by modern changes. Shakespeare and Dickens both invented words and terms. Is it a sign of age to be offended by new things?

Meanwhile a lovely cafe in Headington is serving a selection of 'deserts' and the launderette in Spalding will be closed 'untill' 2nd January.

"How are you?"
"I'm good."
"So pleased to hear that, but how are you?"

Yes, it's quite obvious that those leaflets are created by teenagers and edited by - probably no one. The majority of adverts on TV are no better. Gone are the days when they used to be an art form. I follow my 92 year old mum's example of turning the sound down on all the mind-numbing dross.

My problem at the moment is people saying we are about to enter a new decade. If a decade is ten years it should go from one to ten (zero) therefore we are entering the final year of the decade. Is it just me? Yes, I think it is.

It's not so much the destination that counts but the journey. So say many who've had trying or challenging life experiences. I've noticed that it's become popular lately to disparage the use of this metaphor, but it has always been favoured in literature. Anyone who's ever had a difficult journey (like the time our family tried to find our holiday home in a strange land, up a mountain, in the dark, in an unfamiliar car) can appreciate the comparison to life's unexpected and difficult twists and turns.

Phoebes We have always said "Come round mine" and the like. It wasn't till I was in the sixth form that I learnt that it was a dialect thing (Suffolk, probably also Norfolk)

rubysong. Decade. Yes I see what you mean I think, though it's getting late. Do you mean we've already done 2020 years and we're going into the 2021st, like when you have a birthday, say your 50th, it means you've done fifty years and you're entering your 51st year? Or like calling the 1900s the twentieth century? So if we're going into 2021 now, it is the start of a new decade. Hope so, because I've been wishing a happy one of those quite freely.

So he text me and then I text him.

Callistemon ??