- "Viral video" - Anything with an "i" before it (iPhone, iToilet, etc.)
Feel free to add to the list.
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remember "stay the course" and the latest one that has begun to annoy me is that US attorneys "serve at the pleasure of the president". Speedy Gonzalez et al have been saying it constantly over the past week or so. Use an f'ing thesaurus people,please
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"Go missing" with its related past tense "went missing" are gifts of the Brits. That term has been used in the UK for a long time. How it got across the pond is one of the mysteries of life.
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"The word Fascism has now no meaning except insofar as it signifies 'something not desirable'." -- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946
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thank you, docbarry. can't stand "went missing" myself.
also: someone being "disrespected" -- "disrespect" is not a verb. i especially hate to see it used as a verb in legitimate articles, not as a quote. let's keep dumbing down the language, people.
and freink2 -- "serve at the pleasure..." is the legal terminology to describe the employment relationship. in my job, i serve at the pleasure of the chief judge and, just like the federal attorneys, could be out tomorrow w/ no explanation; obviously, i try to stay on his good side. but i agree that "serve at the pleasure" is grammatically a mouthfull -- just like "weapons of mass destruction", which could be replaced w/ "bombs and gas".
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