Loosing? Learn the English language, people!

"person with access needs" possibly?

not all "disabilities" are permanent.

https://contentdesign.london/blog/disability.and.inclusive.language/

Local rag has a story about someone 'changing tact' to go in a new direction.

More important than the specific expression is what model of disability you use. I'm not up-to-date now, but ten years ago, in English the term 'disabled people' was the term of choice because it was thought to better reflect the social model of disability (that people are disabled because society disables them, i.e. is not inclusive enough, not because of their specific impairment(s)). 'People with disabilities' was thought to reflect more the discredited medical model (people are disabled because there's something wrong with them).

It may be trend specific to Swedish how they're expressing themselves now, but in English, too, people were searching for better non-discriminatory language. For instance, some Deaf (with a capital D) people don't consider their deafness to be a disability but a bit of a gift that enables them to be part of a rich Deaf culture. 'Functional variation' may be an attempt to include disabled people and Deaf people, and possibly others, under the same term.

more handy linques.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inclusive-communication/inclusive-language-words-to-use-and-avoid-when-writing-about-disability

Great, thanks. It’s for a PP in English and don’t want to offend.

not sure people get "offended", i suspect it's more mild annoyance - as always, if you're ever in any doubt, just ask someone who is (for want of a better word) disabled.

Someone said 'pacifically' in a meeting this morning. Still angry.

Yeah but not an abundance of fluid English speaking disabled persons around when I need them here in Sweden

ugh. they really are the worst now that i think of it.

I think person/people living with a disability or person/people with a disability is most appropriate... I've also heard 'person living with a difference' being used by a colleague, which I quite like but it's a bit more fuzzy than the former.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/23/annoying-mispronunciations-do-they-make-you-go-nucular-probly

Although they didn't go the whole hog and say mispronounciations

My boss says ketchup instead of catch up.

“Let’s have a quick ketchup this afternoon”

Sure, I’ll bring the hotdogs and the burgers. Sounds great.

Is he from Hempshire?

I see so many examples of this kind of mistake, probably due to predictive text word completion software:

Cavendish, a sprinter who wears his heart on his sleeve and is well known for his meticulous nature when it comes to equipment and his set-up, stopped short of a public apology and stated that 'we have now spoken'. He took to Instagram to add context around his outburst, and admitted that his frustrating reaction should not have taken place.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mark-cavendish-explains-his-angry-tour-de-france-outburst-directed-at-a-mechanic/

No excuse for this one:

It was originally going to be rather more hairsuite though, as the original plans called for 1,300 lit acrylic hairs, but that was cut to 500 to save money and space inside the internal walls.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2018/12/06/theres-a-giant-brown-steel-hedgehog-in-whitechapel/

(See BToB thread: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16095338/)

The Gruaniad living up to its reputation:
Elaine Thomson-Hera wins the women’s 100m: She sets an Olkympic record in a time of 10.61sec, a new Olympoic record

Tbf, that’s on the minute by minute live coverage, where some guy’s typing along with the action - it’s not as if the subs have let it through.

Thank you for the explanation.

Apparently it's in the OED but it's the first time I've seen that spelling.

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Normally see that spelling on canal locks, with the cill being the ledge you really don't want to get the end of your boat caught on when you're draining the lock:

Edit to add - not my boat, even I've never been stupid/drunk enough to make that mistake.

Seen in a mobile phone shop in Germany: WEREABLES

Wolfsburg?

Good guess, but it was in a national chain shop, and I have a worrying feeling that they might have sent those signs out to all of their branches. :) It's quite possible that they have one in Werewolfsburg, too.

Ha!