Annoying spelling, galling grammar, irksome words, frustrating phrases

[Pyan]

Aren't they both long? If you leave off the SE both words sound the same.

That'll do in lieu of a better solution.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Here's something that I couldn't believe
There is a kid's TV program called Theodosia
Here's what was listed, in not just one TV guide, but several, and also on my Virgin Media Tivo box

On TV24

And on Sky

The Sky one even has the correct title in the synopsis

 

[dask]

Interesting thread but now I'm almost afraid to say anything - - - or is it any thing?

 

[Alex The G and T]

Interesting thread but now I'm almost afraid to say anything - - - or is it any thing?

We'll be the judge of that!

 

[Ursa major]

lysdexia

So you have a collection** of ten lilies?

** From lys (lily); dex (an order or factor of ten); -ia (used in forming names of countries, diseases, flowers and, rarely, collections of things).

 

[Ursa major]

Here's something that I couldn't believe
There is a kid's TV program called Theodosia
Here's what was listed, in not just one TV guide, but several, and also on my Virgin Media Tivo box

On TV24
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And on Sky
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The Sky one even has the correct title in the synopsis

I'm now wondering what it is that Theo doses ya with.

 

[THX1138]

So you have a collection** of ten lilies?

** From lys (lily); dex (an order or factor of ten); -ia (used in forming names of countries, diseases, flowers and, rarely, collections of things).

Fells like it at times!

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

I'm now wondering what it is that Theo doses ya with.

A cross between wheat and heather perhaps

 

[tinkerdan]

Here's something that I couldn't believe
There is a kid's TV program called Theodosia
Here's what was listed, in not just one TV guide, but several, and also on my Virgin Media Tivo box

On TV24

And on Sky

I would need more context to what the actual episode was about since the real phrase is:
Whether or not.

So was the episode about weather and they did a 'play on words' or what?

Also, consider; they might be conflating the two words.
Whether
Weather
equals
Wheather

 

[Ursa major]

Looking on IMDB, it's the nineteenth episode of the second season, and it's called: Weather or Not, Here I Come.

 

[paranoid marvin]

The deoderant advert that offers to make me 'smell premium'. What does that even mean?

 

[Steve Harrison]

The deoderant advert that offers to make me 'smell premium'. What does that even mean?

Are you sure that's not an ad for petrol?

 

[Alex The G and T]

I mean, it really annoys me that, suddenly, every talk show guest starts every answer to every question, "I mean..."

 

[Dave]

"I mean..." is short for the earlier, "Do you know what I mean?" to which the correct answer is "No, I can only guess!"

 

[THX1138]

Or, "You know what I mean, right?" as in "You know what I am saying, right?". Or "You agree with me because you know this, right?". Or some such form of agreeance with the speaker.

Answer: "Yes/No, I do/don't, idiot! so just stop talking!" or "Yes/No, I do/don't, but tell me more!". Or a more precise, "Whatever..."
So fickle is the ocean of human emotions.

 

[Rufus Coppertop]

I'd like to propose a new linguistic abomination.

Anticontradisirregardless.

 

[dask]

Merriam-Webster came up with one of their own:

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

I would need more context to what the actual episode was about since the real phrase is:
Whether or not.

So was the episode about weather and they did a 'play on words' or what?

Also, consider; they might be conflating the two words.
Whether
Weather
equals
Wheather

My annoyance was at the use of the Wheather. The actual title Weather or not, here I come, is a play on words because the episode was about a magician causing anomalous weather in London and Egypt and the main character's attempts to thwart him.

 

[Astro Pen]

A cross between wheat and heather perhaps

Make an interesting beer...

 

[mosaix]

I mean, it really annoys me that, suddenly, every talk show guest starts every answer to every question, "I mean..."

Passed three girls in the street today, one was relaying a conversation she'd had: "I'm like no."