Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

Are these waxing terms for that special first night?

Good grammar; the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.

Someone has chalked 'Josie smells gooder than Jean' on the path in our local park. Beside it, someone else has commented 'GOOD GRAMMER'.

Gooder job

Gooder grief!

Jean smells good, Josie smells gooder. Nothing wrong with that.

You've probably had this one before.
Dissect. Why does everybody (seemingly) pronounce it die-sect? Do these same people get caught short and need to take a pies?

That's the American influence on English pronunciation I think.

die-sect

Because that’s how it’s pronounced? Ive never heard it pronounced any other way.

Cambridge dictionary are with me on this: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/dissect

US pronunciation is closer to diss-ect.

Despite the serious context, this one's funny:

However, the PSNI appeared to backtrack on that position when asked on Friday about the LCC statement. “It’s our overall assessment that the violence that has taken place over the last few nights is not orchestrated by a group, in the name of that group,” it said. “We feel that there may be some people who could have connection to proscribed organisations, who have been present on the scenes of violence. But we don’t believe it’s been sanctioned and organised by prescribed organisations for peaceful protests.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/northern-ireland-police-say-paramilitaries-not-behind-recent-violence

(Just a typo, they got it right the first time.)

Arguing about English pronunciation is daft, given the number of accents and dialects. It's particularly pointless when it comes to that part of the vocabulary which was artificially grafted onto English from Latin by renaissance snobs who saw Germanic languages as inferior. Extremely pointless since the conventional English view of how Latin should be pronounced is miles away from the way it actually was.

There is more than one way to pronounce dissect. There is more than one way to pronounce controversy. Be honest: none of them confuse you. Deal with it.

Much American pronunciation is how things used to be pronounced in Britain (or in a significant part of it) in the early years of the colony. In many cases the colonists preserved the old pronunciation while the British changed, for interesting reasons. Dismissing divergences in grammar or pronunciation as Americanisms is common but not wise.

This is much like what Dutch friends me of Afrikaans, the same language dialled back 300 years.

Yes, but this is the pedantry thread where shibboleths rule.

Are they like posh leprechauns? I know I didn't vote for them.

Someone has chalked 'Josie smells gooder than Jean' on the path in our local park. Beside it, someone else has commented 'GOOD GRAMMER'.

This has now been updated with 'NICE SPELING'.

I'm sure it can only be a good thing that the Ardennes have finally found a rider that suits them:

Eddie Dunbar played the role of following all the early attacks at Amstel Gold where he looked strong. The Irishman suits the Ardennes down to the ground as a very punchy climber.

If I were a bunch of hills, I'd sure hate it if I only ever had inappropriate riders racing around in me.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/adam-yates-and-tao-geoghegan-hart-bolster-super-strong-ineos-grenadiers-squad-for-la-fleche-wallonne-2021-496867

notable Londoners and Hollywood A-listers relax gawker-free among the
hoi polloi.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jun/06/the-wolseley-one-of-londons-loveliest-dining-rooms-restaurant-review

In their defence, hoi polloi is Greek, rather than English.

The importance of spacing.

There's something about this phrase that people find hard.

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Can I ask here if there’s a better/more up to date term for ‘disabled’? In my language there’s been a few changes to the labelling of it and it’s now called (approximately) ‘functional variation’ rather than disability, handicap etc. Is this a thing in English?

I think special needs is the most acceptable. But also disabled is fine.

Person with disabilities? Isn't the point to define someone as a person first, and not by something they are afflicted with?