Another one to go "grrr" about!

I'm missing something, what is gadarene swine?

Hey you get off of my cloud....

Lucca

hicaz46 they also say (round here anyway) things like, "If yourself would just fill in this form..."

I laughed at a subtitle when I saw the name Harry Kane used instead of hurricane in a storm report!

I’m bored with people saying ‘bored of’. Apparently both are in use with bored of being popular with young people and bored with used by those of us who were taught correctly. Also flinch every time someone says ‘myself’ instead of me or I. For example ‘myself and the wife’ ....a sentence wrong in so many ways.

MeemawtoD

Oh Gransnetters thank you, you did make me laugh.
Lucca, pedant that I am Drem is in sunny East Lothian

Of course it is silly me my Ex OH who told me about this was teaching in Haddington at the time

Oh Gransnetters thank you, you did make me laugh.
Lucca, pedant that I am Drem is in sunny East Lothian

I get unreasonably annoyed when I read that someone has gone into ‘rest bite‘ care ?

Carol54

My GS doesn't want to live near the sea incase a satsuma comes in

ditto the GUO, or Giant Unfriendly Orange, that might just roll up the beaches..

wise grandson sounds a very attenborough-like naturalist in the making, to be so aware of such phenomena. commendable.

I liked ‘fragment’ of imagination.

Grandma70s

My favourite subtitling error was about ‘cabbages rolling along the Mall’. They meant ‘carriages’.

a surreal Dahl-esque vision, of cabbages and kings.

lizzypopbottle Sun 20-Sep-20 10:23:09
Spangler I love finding out about the origins of our idiomatic phrases and sayings.
Me too, but I was shocked and amused the day that a catholic priest, of all people, explained the origin of the 'F' word profanity.

And wipers for Ypres

My GS doesn't want to live near the sea incase a satsuma comes in

Rosina

'Return back' is one of my pet annoyances. I also dislike 'Try and get that hat' - nobody seems to ue the correct 'Try TO get that hat- surely if you 'Try and get' something it then a foregone conclusion that you have got whatever it is?

That’s seriously pedantic! Congratulations ?

quizqueen

I hate it when people say get 'off of' something, instead of just 'get off'!

Hey you get off of my cloud....

My favourite subtitling error was about ‘cabbages rolling along the Mall’. They meant ‘carriages’.

'Return back' is one of my pet annoyances. I also dislike 'Try and get that hat' - nobody seems to ue the correct 'Try TO get that hat- surely if you 'Try and get' something it then a foregone conclusion that you have got whatever it is?

I hate it when people say get 'off of' something, instead of just 'get off'!

apparently there’s a railway station (in Fife?) called Drem which was very exposed to wind chill.
School kids who had to wait for a train to school used to say in the Lord’s Prayer “lead us not into Drem station”.

Febury does it for me every time. Ugh!

MadeinYorshire my DS1 (now 42) used to refer to it as Marks & Spensive too!

Shortlegs for some reason my tablet recently decided that when I typed "hedgerow" what I meant "bacteria"

Our 'Bible' in High School was the Wren and Martin Grammar and Composition Books. Can I add I studied in a Convent School in India ....

Phoenix that audio to print thing you mentioned must be similar to whatever they use for subtitles on tv. Being very deaf, I do have to rely on these and they can be quite hilarious (when they're not being downright annoying!). The other evening "Rees Ring Fish Eye" came up along the bottom of the screen, which stumped me until I looked at the map above it. East Renfrewshire!! Sorry, that's rather a drift away from the topic - although perhaps many a misquote starts off life as a mis-heard.

Spangler

In WW!, when Tommy Atkins, who had never been to France, first heard the French expression: "Ça ne fait rien," he thought that he had heard: "San Fairy Ann," and so it stuck, bastardised forever.

Yes, my mum used to say that.