From Digg, about which they say...
And the point is...
Heh.
BBC Anchor Omits A Somewhat Crucial Pause In His Opener
Punctuation isn't given it's due very often. Every once in a while, though, it serves a pretty useful purpose.
Heh.
"Heh" is about right. I bet he feels a fool.
ReplyDeleteI certainly would.
DeletePunctuation isn't given it's due very often.
ReplyDeleteThat is, one assumes, irony.
Good eye; I completely missed that. It's irony, alright... of the unintended sort.
DeleteThe real irony is it has taken almost five years to reach your blog
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'
It took almost five years to reach Digg. It hit my blog within hours of appearin' on Digg.
DeleteJust sayin'.
I just wish the Brits would learn to speak English...
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'.
What was that Churchill said? "Two peoples, separated by a common language?"
DeleteSpeaking of which...After your time in England, are you familiar with the word "summat," Buck? Just saw it used frequently in the Brit movie "Blowdry" on Netflix last night. Since we use the caption feature regularly now in our dotage, we saw it spelled out. "Summat" was new to us. The Oxford defines it as a non standard form of "something."
DeleteYep, I've definitely heard "summat" a lot. My absolute favorite Brit-ism is "innit," which is always said in the form of a question at the end of a sentence... as in "Beautiful day, innit?"
DeleteI think "innit" is what we call estuary English as it originated in Essex alongside the Thames estuary.
DeleteAnd i always thought it was Churchill who said that but I have since learned that it was the irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
DeleteThanks for that, Brian.
DeleteIn our own country, especially the south, I've heard the "innit" with a contracted "d" in there, as in "Beautiful day, id'nit?
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