Marmalising the English Language

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Sadly, at least since around 1960-70, in my opinion regarding education I’m sure we have regressed.

I too have held that opinion for a long time now, JBR. I most recently had it confirmed when helping my wee granddaughter with home schooling. During online sessions with her teacher, who was popular with the class and seemed very pleasant, there were many grammatical errors, the most annoying of which was her many references to “yous” when addressing the class. I spent all summer weaning the wee yin off the ‘word’!

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… so is the Orange and Ginger marmalade, Ruthio :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Word for me is configured for British English.

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Oh, Art, I took no offense at at all. All in the spirit of good forum fun! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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You are absolutely right of course, yet one could accuse you of marmalising!

And young @gumbud also says Afghanis, not Afghans. How can that be explained?

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well like wez gotta awful lot of camels over here and dem der afghanis brought dem over sez?

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I don’t mind at all, Marmalising itself is a relatively recent addition to the English language and demonstrates the language’s evolving nature as well as anything.

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I am fond of Ginger Marmalade too, my garden used to have ginger growing all over the place but I have never made marmalade with it. Now it only grows in one place near the Electric meter, I might have to plant some more.

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Ex Pats are entitled to do what like with the lingo, whilst languishing in the Lido. :biking_man:

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Sounds a bit fairy-tale so I googled it and by jove …

Afghani camels accompanied by muslims, integrating with the Aboriginal communities.

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So many accents for one small country. It’s a typical southern one around here. Sort of BBC News-like but not so posh. Afghanistan and Taliban for sure. I know those living in the south are said to live ‘dahn sahf’ by people living in the north but that isn’t so (I heard that so many times during visits to Yorkshire). ‘Down south’ is how it would be said by most people living here.

I used to cover an area about 15 miles away from here when working. It was more into deepest Hampshire. The accent changed even over that short distance. The pronunciation of Hampshire is different. Hampshere living where I do and Hampshurre only 15 miles away.

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I must admit I thought it was common knowledge. We even have a train named after them.

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I noticed that about Talibaaan too except to my lug oils it sounded more like Tarly Barn.

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do you think that maybe just maybe it’s just the English - the very old English that are obsessed about their language - how peculiar it has spread across the globe and the most common language spoken and you worry that people are changing it along the way - ya can’t feckin stop it so stay cool mon!

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Good grief - would you look at the length of that train!!

Sorry - no thread derailment intended!

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Yep ST, what a Woppa, is that the Chattanooga choo Choo?

PS, was the derailment pun intentional? :biking_man:

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Yes - but at the same time - No!

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Tali…Tale…got it.

Talybont.

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that’s what the vicars daughter said to the sailor actually!!

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We though about going on the ghan when we stayed in Sydney but it goes from Melbourne and we couldn’t be bothered .
It’s incredibly expensive so the food must be good .
Scenery must get repetitive though as it’s all desert .