h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Celebrity .At least Star is also a large body of gaswish they were celibate

Allegedly. Particularly when entirely redundant on news programmes, e.g. "Jim Smith was arrested and charged with four counts of allegedly stealing cars." No he wasn't; he was charged with stealing cars and to report it as such is hardly leaving yourselves open to a lawsuit.

I hate 'Derrr!' in a sing song voice to indicate the person thinks someone is being stupid. Often 'like, derrrrr'

Two words actually : special relationship.

Why not drop this silly term and start forming proper relationships with all nations. Might have less wars then.

When people say "I'm gonna give 110 percent".
Daft.

"whatever"

as single word. pure Jerry Springer Syndrome!

Yeah! I cringe whenever I hear someone say "talk to the hand"

What about PROACTIVE

Used in marketing and management speak to mean the opposite to REACTIVE - but imagine Newton's Laws of Motion.

Proaction and Reaction are equal and opposite!

I hated it at school, and still sometimes now with grown-up people, when they say "Can you borrow me a pen?"
Lend, people, lend!

"diet" / "light"

after any food or drink product....

I once read that "Gotten" has an etymology just as valid as any other English word you care to mention, and was widely used perfectly legitmately for years and years in early modern English. Shakespeare used it, and it is preserved oft-used in parts of North America because it was carried there by settlers around the Elizabethan age and never fell out of fashion there as it did here.

However, I still don't like it, either.

deplaning.

As in, getting off a plane. Has to be one of the stupidest words I have ever heard. I mean, do we 'plane' when we get on? If we have to get off and get on again, do we 'replane'?



az

In fact, 'gotten' is the accurate and accepted past participle of the word 'got' in American English. Whether one likes the use of it or not is, of course, a matter of personal perference. But it is grammatically correct. In North America anyhow.

az the English teacher

so putting more passengers onto a plane would be
replane-ishment?
CF

or plane-up?

anyhow, why 'deplane' and not 'unplane'?

az

Usually used in relation to ships..

embark - to get on; disembark - to get off

More and more I hear 'debark' as the opposite to 'embark'

I thought 'debarking' was an operation people had performed on their noisy dogs.

az

I can't explane
pde

I debunk your debark and raise you two kippers

"Random"

As in "Yeah I just did this really random thing, cos some random people came up to me and said random stuff."

Tends to be middle teenagers who use that term the most.