Mispronunciation

[lainey lou]

What- with all our complaints - no wonder people's eyes glaze over when we talk to them!!! ( I thought it was to do with gardening....and family tree stuff wot did it!)

Cor, we do sound like the grumpy olds don't we?

[Flummery]

I'm probably about to upset Birdie Wife and Flummery, but Xmas is a perfectly legitimate abbreviation of Christmas in written form. However, it is still pronounced as "Christmas" when spoken.

I'm happy with it as a written abbreviation. It's having someone in the position of Lord Mayor of a major (well, Hull thinks it is!) City pronouncing it Exmas in a speech that makes me cringe.

[JanieB]

Flum, absolutely, quite right .

[valmarg]

I'm not a fan of skedjule rather than schedule.

valmarg

[HeyWayne]

Sorry, but can someone explain to me how Christmas can be abbreviated as Xmas? If it was Crossmas, or Exmas I could understand, but how does Christ transpose into "X"? I'm genuinely intrigued.

[bubblewrap]

Aluminum. The merkins say aloo-min-um.

[Nicos]

Sorry, but can someone explain to me how Christmas can be abbreviated as Xmas? If it was Crossmas, or Exmas I could understand, but how does Christ transpose into "X"? I'm genuinely intrigued.

Just for you!!...

Xmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[bubblewrap]

The merkins again when they pronounce Leicester Lie-cester

[HeyWayne]

Just for you!!...

Xmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well I never! Thanks Nicos, that will make for an interesting discussion with a mate of mine who has a real problem with Xmas.

Every day's a school day.

[Nicos]

Well I never! Thanks Nicos, that will make for an interesting discussion with a mate of mine who has a real problem with Xmas.

Every day's a school day.

( It's all Greek to me!)

Ps - and yes....I ALWAYS write Xmas!!!

[bubblewrap]

Sorry, but can someone explain to me how Christmas can be abbreviated as Xmas? If it was Crossmas, or Exmas I could understand, but how does Christ transpose into "X"? I'm genuinely intrigued.

Why should it be addreviated Christmas is short enough already.

[HeyWayne]

Aluminum. The merkins say aloo-min-um.

Don't, one of my colleagues who sits close by lived in Merka for 12 years. He still says Aluminum. He also uses the elevator, he goes on vacation and shops at somewhere called "the store"?

He's been back in Blighty for 8-10 years now!

[HeyWayne]

( It's all Greek to me!)

That was the first reply I typed!

[bluemoon]

The Merkins use of the "double would", as in "He would always come home just after it would get dark" Sometimes they do realize that this just sounds wrong so use the "hidden double would" as in "He'd always come......" But you need an intellectual Merkin for that.

[Polly Fouracre]

Have just heard a conversation between two teenage girls,concerning an argument about a boyfriend.
"So I'm like........" and "she's like.....",instead of "she said" and "I said".......I'm like she's better off without him,but I didn't say so!
How many are checking their posts carefully for spellings and mispronunciations on this thread?!!