Ah.....now that you mention it....
I remember Cream (Eric Clapton?)
For what it is worth, I have some of their music on my iPod and on my computer's iTunes.
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I remember Cream (Eric Clapton?)
For what it is worth, I have some of their music on my iPod and on my computer's iTunes.
Because it is currently topical ...
Coronating.
The term is Crowning. The king is Crowned, not Coronated.
Coronating.
The term is Crowning. The king is Crowned, not Coronated.
Sounds like yet another noun that has become a verb in common usage (for example, "my friend has been short of breath and unable to think clearly for the last eighteen months because he was Slowhanded").
Oh, yes.
And, on this - or a related topic - a king (or queen, or crowned monarch) reigns; a government rules.
Actually, I am rather tired of reading about how a government 'reigns', and how their 'reign' is about to end.
Crowning is a verb with a venerable history.
However, I agree re deploring the general tendency of trying to turn nouns into verbs.
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verb | vərb | Grammar
noun
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
verb
[with object] use (a word that is not conventionally used as a verb, typically a noun) as a verb: any English noun can be verbed, but some are more resistant than others.
I work with someone who says “literally” in nearly every sentence. Now I hear everyone saying it. 🤦♂️
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verb
[with object] use (a word that is not conventionally used as a verb, typically a noun) as a verb: any English noun can be verbed, but some are more resistant than others.
On another forum, there is a topic about a problem encountered "…while on hols in…" that the OP seems to want to keep alive. I'm getting very annoyed seeing this every day. It disturbs me more than the use of "vacay" or however one would spell that.
Another one that annoys me is when people are speaking and clearly don't know how the phrase "supposed to" is, well, supposed to be pronounced. They use a make-believe word something like "spos't" and you get a double-t sound when they add "to" after it.
Another one that annoys me is when people are speaking and clearly don't know how the phrase "supposed to" is, well, supposed to be pronounced. They use a make-believe word something like "spos't" and you get a double-t sound when they add "to" after it.
NOOOOO!!!! Even just reading that makes me cringe... I can't even begin to say that out loud, it's so bad.
I am grinding my molars, just reading this egregious expression.
One which annoys me is "adorabubble." Nothing wrong with the perfectly good word "adorable."
Luckily (for me) I've not heard of a lot of these expressions that are irritating you all.
Chrissy? Hols? Crimbo? Adorabubble? Nope.
I did hear "Vacay" from an American friend, but I tend to let Americans off as I don't speak their language fluently 😁
Chrissy? Hols? Crimbo? Adorabubble? Nope.
I did hear "Vacay" from an American friend, but I tend to let Americans off as I don't speak their language fluently 😁
I've seen "Crimbo" on various discussion forums and I've seen "vacay" quite a lot -- ugh!!! "Adorabubble" I've seen written online from one friend who is Australian but now living in a different country. Don't know where she picked it up, whether in person or online.
This is the first I have heard of the horror that goes by the name of Crimbo; good grief.
Actually, I had to look it up...
Why massacre a perfectly good word?
The (proper noun) Christmas describes that time of the year more than adequately, and is a word that everyone knows and that everyone understands. Let us use it without compressing it into something that sounds so ugly.
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I always thought "Xmas" was bad, but "Crimbo" really takes the cake! I'd never seen "Chrissy" until this particular thread. "Hols" I have seen from time to time, but not in combination with "Chrissy." UGH!!!!
"Hols" was boarding school slang in the UK from the 1940s (you'll see it in some of Enid Blyton's books, and some of my mother's school-friends would have used that term), hence, this expression - which was rooted in a specific time, place, context and social class and culture - doesn't really bother me, although it is not an expression that I use myself.
Although I personally don't use xmas, the X is representative of the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter in Christ. It goes back to the year 1021, so is hardly a new thing, or even disrespectful.
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I've never heard of Crimbo and have no idea what that means. I'll have to go look it up, but I assume from context clues here it's also some variation of Christmas.
The X in Xmas literally means Christ. Here's the history behind it.
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I've never heard of Crimbo and have no idea what that means. I'll have to go look it up, but I assume from context clues here it's also some variation of Christmas.
Ah.....I'll bet that's where I've seen "hols" before, as I have read some Enid Blyton (rather a while ago now) and also other books set in the UK in years past.....