Common mistakes or misnomers

[omniflow]

"The proof is in the pudding"

[StevieBee]

omniflow said:

"The proof is in the pudding"

Yep. It's a PDF attached to an email

[MJ85]

vixen1700 said:

Stanstead Airport.

[lornemalvo]

Nucular. Often said by otherwise intelligent people.

[J4CKO]

Brought used in place of bought.

I am not spelling or grammar pedant but that one gets right on my tits, seems to be an age thing with younger folk getting it wrong.

Do they teach that in schools ? Its the wrong word, its not hard.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

All the Ford literature I’ve ever seen refers to a Cortina Lotus, yet……

The Mk1 was a Lotus Cortina, built by Lotus in Cheshunt using body shell and other bits supplied by Ford. The Mk2 was the Cortina Lotus, built in Dagenham by Ford using Lotus engine and suspension and bits.

I think.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Evoluzione said:

Doofus said:

Evoluzione said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Ooh, I’ve got another

Spiral staircase

Go on, i'll be that person. Why is spiral staircase wrong?

Strictly speaking they're helical, not spiral.

The Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries don't support that.

It’s one of them that’s changed.

When I was a kid it was inflammable that burnt and non inflammable that didn’t.

Now it’s flammable that burns and inflammable that doesn’t

As said, a spiral is purely a 2 dimensional shape

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

All the Ford literature I’ve ever seen refers to a Cortina Lotus, yet……

The Mk1 was a Lotus Cortina, built by Lotus in Cheshunt using body shell and other bits supplied by Ford. The Mk2 was the Cortina Lotus, built in Dagenham by Ford using Lotus engine and suspension and bits.

I think.

Makes sense. All the handbooks I’ve had have been mark 2

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

I’m liking pac code, PIN number and atm machine!

[Evoluzione]

StevieBee said:

When people say, "I recycle my waste"...... No you don't!

Waste is something that has reached the end of its useful and economic life.

Recycling is a material - a commodity - that requires placing back into the supply chain.

I don't think that's totally correct. Recycling is putting to good use something which would otherwise be treated as waste.
Once some items have been used we have to make the choice whether to recycle or throw in a hole and cover it up.
It isn't always about economics. It's cheaper to chuck some things in a hole than it is to recycle them, but we do re-use them.

[illmonkey]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I’m liking pac code, PIN number and atm machine!

Have you ever tried typing them tho? it feels weird.

[Evoluzione]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Evoluzione said:

Doofus said:

Evoluzione said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Ooh, I’ve got another

Spiral staircase

Go on, i'll be that person. Why is spiral staircase wrong?

Strictly speaking they're helical, not spiral.

The Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries don't support that.

It’s one of them that’s changed.

When I was a kid it was inflammable that burnt and non inflammable that didn’t.

Now it’s flammable that burns and inflammable that doesn’t

As said, a spiral is purely a 2 dimensional shape

Sorry I disagree. There are different types of spirals, flat and downward. A staircase is a downward spiral.
If you think you can't have a spiral staircase then you have to write to all the dictionaries and ask them to change it.

[steveo3002]

chester drawers

[Wacky Racer]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Ooh, I’ve got another

Spiral staircase

[Wacky Racer]

Defiantly

Definately

It's DEFINITELY ffs!

[austinsmirk]

That the Welsh for microwave is

Popty ping.

[Evoluzione]

Wacky Racer said:

One for you Wackeh; it's said Coronation Street is a cobbled street, but it isn't. They are actually stone setts.
Cobbles are irregular shapes like small boulders used as they were found, setts are regular and have been (manually) squared off.

[MesoForm]

skilly1 said:

ATM machine.
PIN number.

I've got no problem with PIN number - it's a stupid acronym as we have lots of types of pin, adding 'number' to the end of it specifies it's the number and not a hair pin, clothes pin, etc.

[StevieBee]

Evoluzione said:

StevieBee said:

When people say, "I recycle my waste"...... No you don't!

Waste is something that has reached the end of its useful and economic life.

Recycling is a material - a commodity - that requires placing back into the supply chain.

I don't think that's totally correct. Recycling is putting to good use something which would otherwise be treated as waste.
Once some items have been used we have to make the choice whether to recycle or throw in a hole and cover it up.
It isn't always about economics. It's cheaper to chuck some things in a hole than it is to recycle them, but we do re-use them.

Ah, well... you've unlocked the subject of much debate amongst the waste management illuminati!

But in the context of the thread subject and household recycling, my definitions stand as they are those embedded in legislation.

At a theoretical level, there is no such thing as waste as there is always something that can be done with it but economics, technology and practicality determine otherwise. Thus waste is defined as something that has no further practical or economic use.... on other words, it's not recycling.

Recycling is a material / commodity and therefore not waste.

You can therefore put out your cans, glass, paper, etc.. for recycling. But you cannot put out your waste for recycling because there's no means or purpose for waste to get recycled.

It's perhaps a bit pedantic on the terminology but ....it's PH!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Evoluzione said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Evoluzione said:

Doofus said:

Evoluzione said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Ooh, I’ve got another

Spiral staircase

Go on, i'll be that person. Why is spiral staircase wrong?

Strictly speaking they're helical, not spiral.

The Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries don't support that.

It’s one of them that’s changed.

When I was a kid it was inflammable that burnt and non inflammable that didn’t.

Now it’s flammable that burns and inflammable that doesn’t

As said, a spiral is purely a 2 dimensional shape

Sorry I disagree. There are different types of spirals, flat and downward. A staircase is a downward spiral.
If you think you can't have a spiral staircase then you have to write to all the dictionaries and ask them to change it.

I am about a hundred. When I was a kid we were taught that a spiral is purely a 2 dimension thing. Things may have changed.

You’ve given me another! Downward spiral!