Arfa Daily wrote:
"John Rumm" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
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On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:24:52 +0000, Dave
wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

Garage around here with 'Keep Cleer' painted on the doors.
That reminds me of my early apprenticeship days.

I was designated to learn/work in an offshoot of the tool room in a
press shop. They had a cupboard there and on the front were the words

Kee
Pout

There's a local print firm near here with an enormous sign on the side
of their building advertising, inter alia, "Vehical Signs".

--
Frank Erskine
My god ! It's even worse than I suspected ... Lots of funny stories
here - until, that is, you actually take time to stop and think about
them, and then it stops being quite so funny. I am seriously saddened
that a once great teaching system, has now reached the point where it is
turning out people who know so little as to not realise that these things
are wrong. A lad I know is now a teacher himself. He used to come to our
house (he was friends with our son) and say "I brought a new game for my
computer today" and I used to say "No (Andy), you *bought* a new game,
and then you *brought* it home". I wonder how many kids in North London
are now growing up with that little gem in their limited comprehension of
the language ?
Such is the way language evolves - there will come a time where their way
is "correct" and the right way is archaic.

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Cheers,

John.

Happening already, methinks ... Both my girls used to come home from their
secondary school telling tales of other girls in the year being or acting
"facety". It took me a long time to get to the bottom of this one. Turned
out it was a complete mis-pronunciation of the word 'feisty', that had just
passed that way into their vocabulary. I rather suspect that it was actually
one of the teachers that helped it on its way there, too ...


Scottish probably.
Arfa