Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

'Freeze'! (Quite apart from the other mistakes in the letter.)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/23/boris-johnson-wrote-that-parthenon-sculptures-should-never-have-been-removed

Saw a clip of an anti-vax march "I don't want my children waking up in a Utopia where they're not allowed to do this or that".

Americans using the word drug in place of dragged. Pleeze

I drug heartily upon my drug filled cigarette.

So in some USA dialects, drag is an irregular verb. This is not a linguistic crime.

But this is the language snob thread

Funny thing is, I heard it in the context of a fight.
"And he drug him to the ground"
Was quite funny to hear.

But this is the language snob thread

That is an accurate description of most of the content in this thread, yes. Hyacinth Bouquet style "Milk in first" snobbery.

It is an interesting phenomenon, though, because (as far as I can tell), this is a new development--it's not a revival of an archaic form. Or, at least, I can't find anything that says such a form ever existed. Off the top of my head, I can't think of another -ag verb in which this vowel change occurs (and only hang-hung-hung as a parallel). Changing vowels in verbs is, of course, a very Germanic language thing to do, so it may just be a case of people imagining that this is what the correct form had to be, and gradually it became established. I can understand why it gets up people's noses, but in a hundred years' time, it may be in all the textbooks. :)

Zigzag -> zigzug. 'Tis a common phrase round these parts.

Words rather fail me.

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/plaque-honouring-dramatist-sir-arnold-wesker-unveiled-at-his-former-school/

Unless there's some in-joke here from Wesker's work that I'm missing (I don't know his work) or this spelling has become accepted in American English (the plaque being sponsored by an American), it's depressing to see this in several different newspapers apparently without the journalists noticing.

"Quarterbacking" to describe a footballer

just for clarification, you mean using it as a verb to describe what he's doing? I realise that's not only the most likely meaning of your post but also the only one that makes sense, but just checking.

"Matip, quarterbacking from deep, just to the right of the centre circle, curls a lovely ball down the channel to release Diaz"

Seems to be a fashionable phrase at the moment and thus very very wrong

People who say "an hotel" can fuck right off. Unless - and only unless - their accent drops the H.

Yikes

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Missed the apostrophe on Repair’s?

Yike's

A colleague from Spain recently used "to put a shed of light on this issue". Can't fault him obviously, it's not his native language but I just found it really funny

A greenhouse?

Every time I see that word, I can't help but thing of this old favourite...

Dyslexic skier: "When you slalom down a mountain, do you zigzag or zagzig?"

Man: "Sorry mate. No idea... I'm a tobogganist."

Dyslexic skier: "In which case, I'll have 20 Benson & Hedges and a box of matches."

Rogue male:

Rouge male:

You probably don't want to confuse the two.

I'll just leave this here....

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An oldie

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but I'm loaved to

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