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Can someone explain why on TV they use the term WOW! and WOW FACTOR......what a load of crap !!! it completely sickens me these juvenile terms.
what soddin planet are we on?

They are trying to be trendy Mike! Comes from America I think. You should post this in the Snug, this section is for Genealogy General Discussion. Go and have a whisky from Lin x.

Wow! You really are upset at this attack on the Queen's English.

I think you need have more leeeesure time.

Drink some beer from an aluminum can.

Leave the "u" out of color.

Replace all dynasty's with dinasties.

Make sure every second word out of a teenage girls mouth is "like".

I personally thought we would all adopt "Shazam!" like Gomer Pyle.

Oh, don't forget to ask people "wassup?"

Hi Lin
This post was done on Snug sweetheart

Mark so right !.......Wassup is a street dancing expression.

Micheal's got a point though.
I hate the way some young girls are talking.The sound of their voices and accents are doing me head in!!
I was in the bookies at Whiteheath a couple of years ago and this West Indian voice behind me was annoying me so i turned around to see who it was.It was a white kid,18? from the flats!! His dad was at Good Shepherd with me!!
What's that all about?

mikleed wrote:Hi Lin
This post was done on Snug sweetheart

Mark so right !.......Wassup is a street dancing expression.

Yo Mike dude wassup man
like it so was in General Discussion but I like so moved it bro to here
cos like it was in the wrong place and like we have to have it in the rite place ok!
So chill babe

Jan........Luv ya talk thanks......a Blast !

Mike

Rob......exactly what I mean.

TxT Msg from my Granddaur yesterday


hey nanny

see u l8tzz gtg

I'm beginning to understand most of it

Rob wrote::lol: Micheal's got a point though.
I hate the way some young girls are talking.The sound of their voices and accents are doing me head in!!
I was in the bookies at Whiteheath a couple of years ago and this West Indian voice behind me was annoying me so i turned around to see who it was.It was a white kid,18? from the flats!! His dad was at Good Shepherd with me!!
What's that all about?

Is that because he was "from the flats"?

I can not stand that program about " Essex girls", cant stand the way they talk Dt Ps Like your Christmas balls Maggie .

A twitterer purporting to be 'Elizabeth Windsor' @Queen_UK tweeted that "There is the Queen's English ... and there are mistakes". I'm with her.

The one that really gets me - even in big store adverts

Open till ????

A till is something you put money in

Another one is when people put the 'h' sound before the letter H as in HMV or BHS - and I've heard this from top Beeb presenters

The letter H is spelled aitch

There is a road sign that is common around here when they are resurfacing a road.

It reads, "Road works. No lines marked. Do no overtake unless safe."

OK....I will just wait for you to paint the lines and then I can overtake if it is safe or not!!!!

Another peculiarity is disoriented and disorientated.

For ages I was getting mad at Australian and English people on TV/Radio saying things lkie "The elderly man was disorientated."

I have always used "disoriented" and would have sworn that was the Queen's English.

I thought these media people had succumbed to another Americanism.

Sadly it was 'moi who had been brainwashed by the yanks. Disorientated is the correct pronunciation.

MarkCDodd wrote:There is a road sign that is common around here when they are resurfacing a road.

It reads, "Road works. No lines marked. Do no overtake unless safe."

OK....I will just wait for you to paint the lines and then I can overtake if it is safe or not!!!!

Another peculiarity is disoriented and disorientated.

For ages I was getting mad at Australian and English people on TV/Radio saying things lkie "The elderly man was disorientated."

I have always used "disoriented" and would have sworn that was the Queen's English.

I thought these media people had succumbed to another Americanism.

Sadly it was 'moi who had been brainwashed by the yanks. Disorientated is the correct pronunciation.

Same as presrured and pressurised