Overused and abused words

Kittyfrisk

Cranky said:

EricTheWeary said:

Probably not widely used and I’ve nothing against Guide Dogs for the Blind but their use of the word pupdates hits a nerve for some reason. 

As it should.  I'll add "pet parent" and "fur baby" to this.

Yes, I just gagged a little at these phrases... possibly a fur ball?

ToneControl

syncretic

Cranky

^ school, dictionary

p90fool

Kittyfrisk said:

Dissect.
Snakes hiss, animals piss, people kiss. The hint is described in the double 's'.
I did what were known as dissections back in the 1970s & 80's... so how the fuck can it ever have become pronounced die-sect (dye sect etc.)??   

Because it's like dicing chicken?

Cranky

p90fool said:

Kittyfrisk said:

Dissect.
Snakes hiss, animals piss, people kiss. The hint is described in the double 's'.
I did what were known as dissections back in the 1970s & 80's... so how the fuck can it ever have become pronounced die-sect (dye sect etc.)??   

Because it's like dicing chicken?

Wait, so the English pronunciation of "dissect" is different from the American, or it used to be but not anymore?

p90fool

It may have become confused over the years with bisect, which obviously has a different etymology, cutting in two rather than cutting apart. 

bobblehat

The most overused phrase in our house for the last 18 months has been "Laura Fu*%king Kuenssberg" 

JAYJO

Which ones Ant?

Nitefly

bobblehat said:

The most overused phrase in our house for the last 18 months has been "Laura Fu*%king Kuenssberg" 

Yep, for a long time the Six O'clock News was known here as The Daily Kuenssberg...

SPECTRUM001

I feel a bit sorry for Laura’s stylist/wardrobe assistant.

She is on the news so much it must be a struggle to know what to put her in. 

Kittyfrisk

p90fool said:

It may have become confused over the years with bisect, which obviously has a different etymology, cutting in two rather than cutting apart. 

Yes I think it probably is this, or something similar.
As someone that worked in further education and a University Archaeology department as a biological lab technician, nobody called it die-section. This is just something that has arisen over the last 30 years or so. Still annoying to me when a perfectly adequate pronunciation exists, but these things happen all the time.
 As for dicing, it's because you slice material into uniform squares or dice shapes.
Which as it refers to a die (as in the die is cast) should probably be die-ing... which could possibly be even more problematic 

Kittyfrisk

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/side-hustle-and-five-other-phrases-that-need-to-fk-off-immediately-20201127202954

LastMantra

Rabbit hole.

Are rabbit holes full of fx pedals and rickenbackers?

Is it even a rabbit's "hole" anyway? 

Pabcrane

LastMantra said:

Rabbit hole.

Are rabbit holes full of fx pedals and rickenbackers?

Is it even a rabbit's "hole" anyway? 

What do you call a man with six rabbits up his bum?


Warren.

mbe

You've all been pronouncing microwave wrongly according to Nigella Lawson. 

It should be "mee-crow-wah-vay" 

Dominic

p90fool said:

It may have become confused over the years with bisect, which obviously has a different etymology, cutting in two rather than cutting apart. 

Ah yes , I realise that I'm bisexual
If I can't get sex I'll buy it 

Snags

StratNut said:

chillidoggy said:

“Safety is our No.1 priority.”

No, it’s making money,

A business primarily exists to make money for the shareholders, and there's nothing wrong with that.  I  used to be a senior manager at a company and had a stand-up row with a colleague at a meeting once when he insisted that our company existed "in order to serve the community".  

Funnily enough one of my bugbears is people who hold this to be axiomatic. It's not. A business primarily exists to fulfill the aims laid out in the Articles of Association. And they can be whatever the hell the original progenitors of the business decide they are. The idea that the only/pimary goal of a business is to make money for the shareholders is blinkered neo-liberal capitalist cant.

Stavros

Who are you calling a cant? 

chillidoggy

Snags said:

StratNut said:

chillidoggy said:

“Safety is our No.1 priority.”

No, it’s making money,

A business primarily exists to make money for the shareholders, and there's nothing wrong with that.  I  used to be a senior manager at a company and had a stand-up row with a colleague at a meeting once when he insisted that our company existed "in order to serve the community".  

Funnily enough one of my bugbears is people who hold this to be axiomatic. It's not. A business primarily exists to fulfill the aims laid out in the Articles of Association. And they can be whatever the hell the original progenitors of the business decide they are. The idea that the only/pimary goal of a business is to make money for the shareholders is blinkered neo-liberal capitalist cant.

Indeed.

I've just retired after 22 years as general manager of a company, the primary business of which was to provide a service to its joint owners. Which it did. However, it still had to make a profit 'cos sure as shit the owners weren't keen on propping it up.

LastMantra

My days. 

Were did that one come from?