Recent content by Mr. Brightside

I broke someone's ankle going over the top of the ball playing football, which wasn't accidental. I burst a guys eye open trying to hurdle him as he was standing up and I caught him with my stud, this was accidental.

Maybe this is a Scottish thing, but people saying "I'm not caring" really annoys me, like you missed the bus "oh, I'm not caring" it's just really lazy and wrong.

Maybe he calls it La Gare.

Yes, yes I believe he is. It must be a railway station he calls it, but that makes even less sense than train station :S

I'm still to find out what other name British people use for a train station, other than perhaps railway station, which is a shitty term. I have never, ever heard anyone call it anything other than a train station and have no idea what the guy on the list calls them.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/deplane

No. All it says is that it comes from French and Latin. Of course it comes from Latin nearly every fucking word does.

And, of course, the Merriam-Webster is 100% correct?

TBH, I don't see why most of the things on the list would annoy people, everyone speaks differently, not just Americans. Like there's a culture in the UK (particularly England and London) to say "Free" when meaning the number "Three", like "I'll take 'free' apples please", I hate that.

Well it's pretty much only the British that say lef-tenant, so that'll be why. I, myself, say loo-tenant, simply because it's easier to say lol

According to the OED I'm right, so that's good enough for me.

In French it would be, yes. Which is why it is Loo-tenant. But if a non-French speaking person came across it, they wouldn't know the 'f' was silent, so they would pronounce it with the rest of the word.

So, say the word was lueftenant in Old French, Middle English didn't have a word for that rank, so they took it as their own, starting saying either luef-tenant or lef-tenant, and that was that for a while. Then when the languages evolved into Modern French and English, it became Lieutenant, but...

Because in old French lieu was luef.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/deplane