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Assume v. Presume

Alex Brummer of the Daily Mail accused Ed Milliband today of following "a political agenda, not a personal agenda."

NO, Mr Brummer! It's AGENDUM! We don't call you Alexes Brummres!!!
 
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Badspelling person!​
 
This is a tad peripheral to the subject, but I'll tell you something that really annoys me: TV presenters who don't speak to the camera - there is a "fashion" for speaking to somebody off-screen. Paul Hollywood (TV chef) does it, Jason Bradbury (Gadget Show) does it... and many others.

I sit there seething "you are supposed to be talking to ME".
 
Black Hole said:
This is a tad peripheral to the subject, but I'll tell you something that really annoys me: TV presenters who don't speak to the camera - there is a "fashion" for speaking to somebody off-screen. Paul Hollywood (TV chef) does it, Jason Bradbury (Gadget Show) does it... and many others.

I sit there seething "you are supposed to be talking to ME".
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If they look at you, do you answer back?:p
 
RobH1 said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...rate-and-numerate-in-the-developed-world.html

Depressing or what?
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Yeah, totally, but even more depressing that each government blames it on the previous one. In Universities, we have had to add to the maths syllabus what used to be taught at O and A level, before the students even arrived. This has been going on for years. Soon a University degree will be worth one A Level. Maybe being able to solve a quadratic will get you a Class I degree. Being able to spell will get you an English degree. Knowing that water is H₂O will get you a Chemistry degree...
 
BBC South local news bulletin this morning (talking about archaeological examination of tumuli etc on Salisbury Plain): "hope they will explain why Stonehenge was built where it was".

Surely the second "was" should be "is", because it's still there. This is a frequent error, and I find myself doing it too which annoys me even more.
 
Not sure about that. You wouldn't say "Why was the victim killed where there are?". The tense depends on when the action of the verb took place.
 
Black Hole said:
BBC South local news bulletin this morning (talking about archaeological examination of tumulii etc on Salisbury Plain): "hope they will explain why Stonehenge was built where it was".

Surely the second "was" should be "is", because it's still there. This is a frequent error, and I find myself doing it too which annoys me even more.
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I think the sentence makes sense if you add 'built' after the second was.
 
To me it makes sense without adding 'built' as my instant reaction was to connect the second 'was' with the build.
 
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