There's no danger as long as you don't start call him darling. It's just besties innit.

Thanks for that link, MJ, I hadn't seen it before. Very interesting indeed.

bromance, mancave, mantique. who make up this bollocks.

I think there's a team working full time on them.

Another irritation is when someone is telling you something and they keep saying ‘yeah’ as if you are an imbecile and don’t understand

[quote="Mr Irrelevant"]Starting a sentence with ‘so’ should be a capital offence.[/quote

A capital offence, please, for all those self -important, self-aggrandising, pompous gits who begin a sentence with "myself".
"Myself and my wife are going to the pictures." Aagh! If your wife were to say, "I'm not going out with you, you ugly tosser," you surely wouldn't say, "Myself am/is going to the pictures."... would you? "My wife and myself.." is still wrong, but at least it's a bit more polite.

It's wrong and it sounds so ugly. Once you've noticed it you hear it everywhere.
Last night there was Lenny Henry on television saying," Myself, Matt and Davina would like to welcome you...."
Prince Harry or whatever he's called now, has been heard to say," Myself and Megan..." Fuck me, if he can't speak the Queen's English who can... and it's a waste of an expensive education, know what I mean, like?

They don't know how to construct a phrase in normal English. Those are foreign language constructions. As a translator, I am battling with this all the time.

In English we say "I am going to the pictures with my wife."

We do not say "the closing of the door is made to happen by exerting a pushing force". We say "push door to close". (And the word "door" is probably redundant.)

Here's one for you Monty - in French everyday speech do people always precede a noun with le or la or do they drop them ever?

The French would cry and have a nervous breakdown if there was a word they couldn't preceed with a definite article, but Portuguese is even articler because you for example would always be The John living in the your house.

When someone, right, has to add right, to every sentence, right.

Here in Darlington it seems every utterance starts with / im not being funny

My cousins from NY always say i axed you a question rather than asked

Strange this one, Priti Patel on todays update said somethink and everythink but she dropped the letter ‘G’ from every other word ending in ‘ing’. Listens too much to Steve Wright, no ‘g’!!!!

A couple more.

If you are on your way somewhere you are 'en-route'. Not 'on route'. Bizarre really as this is French.

I would say if you are on your way to somewhere then you are on your way. I never translate "en route" as "en route" unless the original author already comes across as a pretentious git.

Incidentally, anyone singing "get your kicks en route 66" needs shooting. Similarly "Tutti Frutti en routie".


And another by-the-way: route pronounce to rhyme with shout.

See also "lead" pronounced led as in zeppelin when it's not heavy metal.