Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

Another homophone strike:

Several arms houses in the area have been demolished, but the pub had remained.

Also poor grammar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33524733

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"To be fair..." needs to then be followed NOT by another point in favour of your own argument, but by a counterpoint. This shows that you are capable of empathy and furnished with enough intelligence to spare some on consideration of others.

Is the 'l' not pronounced in the Alms?

Yes. The pronunciation is the same as 'arms'. The two words are homophones, i.e. they sound the same despite meaning different things. It's a pitfall in English that's quite easily avoided (not difficult to teach), but the state of language teaching in this country is so low (under-funded and under constant attack) that even BBC journalists make mistakes like this.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/alms
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/arms

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lon­don-33524733

That used to be my local when I first moved back to the UK.

I lived in the Fishmonger's Almshouses (East Hill Estate) on the other side of the road.

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@WillMelling

And it's part of my social life but you don't here me banging on about it.

According to the Sun Boris Johnson is writing a "William Shakespeare autobiography".

Sounds like a vehicle for his usual self-aggrandisement.

From the Guardian

"A Peruvian military operation has secured the release of more than a dozen people who were kidnapped by the Shining Path rebel group up to 25 years ago.

After being used as slaves in remote mountain communities, the 13 adults and 26 children were evacuated by helicopters, an army spokesman said."

That second paragraph doesn't read well.

Recent petty (and faintly comical) annoyances of mine include:

• Consistent spelling of 'larva' for 'lava' (in an Arrivée article on riding in Iceland and another article somewhere on-line being the most recent);

• 'wild boar run amuck'--sounds like fithy boar (http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/aug/13/top-10-canyons-gorges-europe-walking-hiking-trips);

• constant use of 'stamping ground' instead of 'stomping ground'; passim.

What's the correct amuck? Please include where the word comes from and why the other is not right.

'Amok', Malay origin, because like most words in our mongrel tongue (and for no good reason) that is how we spell it. A Malay would spell it differently in characters we could not read, we English have the right to point out their poor spelling.

"Amuck" is quite archaic, so it'd be ok to use that if you were also wearing a fedora at the same time.

M'alay
*hat tip*

Watched a BBC mega-budget natural wonders of the world thing narrated by Olivia Colman last night. The script was full of poor grammar and the subtitles for various indigenous peoples were full of casual abbreviations. Really odd.

In this article, 'blind alleys' was spelled 'blind allies' in the print edition. I was relieved to see that they have since corrected it on-line.

Your friends are blind? Can they read Broil? Surely Ali's would bee correct Inglish, innit?

On the Genesis website, referring to the new longitude....apparently, people would 'bulk' at some of the differing standards.

Indeed.

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"Blue sharks have been pictured using the expedition’s remotely operated vehicle. "

Picture caption here:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/blue-whale-caught-on-camera-english-waters-first-time

Whatever happened to quality sub-editing?

Some twunt on the TV: "[Coming first/winning/being the best] and all the support of my fans has been a very humbling experience"

GF: Is reminded to complete shotgun application

So, people starting every sentence with the word "so".

Worse even than the Australian, rising intonation .....not when used by Aussies, but by English people with no need to use it.

Man writes 6000 word essay on the correct use of the verb "to comprise": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of

He's remedied its egregious misuse 53,266 times on wikipedia according to this chart: https://tools.wmflabs.org/supercount/index.php?user=giraffedata&project=en.wikipedia.org&toplimit=10

"Comprised of" bugs the shit out of me too, so I can get right behind his magnum opus.

The leaving off, in a written sentence, of the "d" in "supposed to". You wouldn't necessarily notice it in a spoken phrase because of the "to".
I'm sure I have written about this before but I see and hear the use of "premise" to refer to a single dwelling or building all the time. The use of "of" at the end of "could, would, should" etc.

u wot mate?