Codpiece
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- Comment on An ancient oak tree said to have sheltered legendary Robin Hood has died 2 days ago:
Hollie Drake of the RSPB
One for the nominative determinism community.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 days ago:
No, it’s evolved unlike American that had to be simplified for the general population.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 days ago:
The Scottish want to claim something English as theirs? When did that start?
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 days ago:
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted either.
To answer your question it’s neither and both. I can appreciate it might seem pedantic from an American point of view, but not from ours. It’s our language, created here and named after us, it doesn’t require the British/European prefix. It is simply English.
American, Canadian and Australian English should have suffixes as simpler variations of the default.
- Thames Water moves step closer to nationalisation after government objects to rescue dealwww.bbc.co.uk ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 4 days ago:
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 4 days ago:
E is English. A is American.
- Comment on Where's the fucking filling? 6 days ago:
What the fuck is that anyway???
- Comment on The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech 1 week ago:
But don’t you think it’s significantly more common now than twenty or thirty years ago, or have I just reached the age where it feel as if everyone is using ‘like’ every other word?
- Comment on The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech 1 week ago:
Not gonna lie.
- Comment on The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech 1 week ago:
You know what I’m sayin’?
- The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speechwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 17 comments
- Comment on Ancient Squirrels Ate Woolly Mammoth Meat. The Proof Is in the Poop. 1 week ago:
How big were these squirrels???
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
Not a single mention of night soil collectors.
- Comment on Any examples of spoonerisms insults 1 week ago:
One of my pets frequently gets called cooking fat.
- Comment on Kebab firm fined £500k for selling lamb that was mostly skin and fat 1 week ago:
They’d better take a look at my local supermarkets too then. The chicken is mainly fat, connective tissue and water.
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 1 week ago:
You are visitor number 0000000000000027
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
Slippery slope.
- Comment on Four in 10 struggle to access mobile signal on the move in the UK 2 weeks ago:
Nice to know nothings changed since I lived there in the 90s.
- Comment on A convicted NHS surgeon who froze his own legs so they had to be removed has been struck off the medical register. 3 weeks ago:
Not like he could appeal. He doesn’t have a leg to stand on legally.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 3 weeks ago:
I guess there has to be something positive about the country.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 3 weeks ago:
Because otherwise it would just be confusing? So let’s have two systems instead.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 3 weeks ago:
Why is your fuel so cheap??
- Comment on I hope this clears things up 3 weeks ago:
Sticky sticky stick stick
- Comment on How long will it be? 3 weeks ago:
About the size of a small meteorite.
Anything except metric.
- Comment on 'I've given up eating hot meals to pay for equipment to keep my son alive' 3 weeks ago:
For me currently (pun intended), it’s a flat rate of £0.20772 per kWh.
- Comment on Community cafe demands apology from Farage for ‘intimidating’ uninvited visit 4 weeks ago:
Shame no one thought to give him a milkshake.
- Comment on 1 in 5 Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest 4 weeks ago:
Did we learn nothing from the swing riots and the Luddite movements? You can’t stop progress and you’ve been banging on about the machines freeing you from manual drudgery so you have time to build that utopian society.
(/s just in case)
- Comment on Thames Water investors say temporary nationalisation would slow its recovery 4 weeks ago:
Are these the same investors who have plundered it for so long?
