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Assume v. Presume

Here is another one: It is Either ... or; Or it is Neither ... nor. Neither ... or is an abomination.
 
MartinOnline said:
[/Pedantic Mode On] Programme ! [/Pedantic Mode Off]

Martin
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Trev said:
There is no need for the 'On' and 'Off' in your last post. The '[....' indicates on and the[/... indicates off. So the correct use of the code should be [Pedantic Mode] and [/Pedantic Mode] but I suppose that that's being pedantic.:frantic:
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...but there's a negation in the first tag, so the comment is outside "pedantic mode" but everything else is inside. So "Programme" is not being pedantic. :P
 
"Transmitted over the aether."

There IS no aether! Ergo you can't transmit over it. Michelson and Morley demonstrated the non-existence of the aether and Einstein showed why it didn't exist.
 
If you were complaining about the tautology ("transmitted" would be sufficient) I would award you the point, but you seem to have buzzed in and declared the wrong error (repetition, deviation, hesitation...). Error of fact isn't an English usage error, therefore not the remit of this panel game.

Whether or not there is an aether, "transmitted over the aether" has poetic licence. Have a bonus point because the audience enjoyed your interruption, Paul Merton gets a point for an incorrect challenge and keeps the subject. 21 seconds left starting now...
 
People who say phenomena when they really mean phenomenon. Heard it twice recently on the news.
 
Black Hole said:
Here's one which is going to be a sod to talk about...

Noticed twice recently, on Radio 4 the use of the pronunciation "estimat" in a context where I would expect to hear "estimate". What's the difference? Well, to me, although spelt the same ("estimate"), to "estimate" is the process of creating an "estimat", in other words one is a noun and the other is a verb.
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Similarly duplicate, aggregate, ... I did have another one but can't remember it now.
 
af123 said:
Similarly duplicate, aggregate, ... I did have another one but can't remember it now.
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And Beijing instead of Peking, and Mumbai instead of Bombay. What next? Paree instead of Paris? Are we going to change the names and pronunciation of all foreign cities and countries? Will we have to use Cyrillic to spell Russian place names?
 
I don't think it is too much to drop the use of names coined by our imperialist, colonialist, cloth-eared forebears in favour of the those, still westernised, alternatives preferred by the local inhabitants.
 
Happened to switch on to the football match reports on Saturday and heard the commentator say Doncarster Rovers!
 
Yes. And what's wrong with that if you're a southerner where grass is grarse and glass is glars as opposed to the way northerners pronounce it as grass and glass (as in ass the animal) that we southerners also pronounce as ass.
 
He also said aftermarth , a contradiction if ever there was one. As Gomezz said, speak like the natives. :)
 
Perhaps the title of this thread should be changed to 'Regional Pronunciation Differences';) And I do speak like the natives. The natives of the SE UK.
 
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