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[martin goddard]

This is only semi serious.
Being quite old, I am often irked by word changes.
I can often see the reasons, but it tires me.
It can often make texts harder to follow if one does not realise that two terms mean the same thing. Also irritating when the english word is merely a phonetic representation.

AD-  CE
Rumania -Romania
Koran-KLKK""nn'lllnn or whatever
Snowden- Yr Wyddfa
Gulf of Mexico- trump lake
Leningrad-St Petersburg- St Putin
Acronyms.   ICE-In Car entertainment-Internal combustion Engine- Then the US has it as Immigration and Customs.

The gay cavalier?


martin

[Sean Clark]

The Czech Republic is now Czech is.

Marathons are Snickers.

25mm is 28mm.

A popular term has emerged in the workplace. Instead of saying "yes I'm doing that thing you asked me to do", you have to say "that's in train".

And if you've seen the memo about the blocked toilets, you have to say "I'm sighted on that".

[John Watson]

I'm sighted on that or I've shited on that?
John

[Sean Clark]

I'm sighted on that or I've shited on that?
John

😂🤣

[Leman (Andy)]

I think it should be Yr Wyddfa - Snowden, as Welsh is a somewhat older language than English.

Where I now live ICE is the German run express train service that runs through various countries in Western Europe.

[Colonel Kilgore]

The ICE is of course the Institution of Civil Engineers [a profession which used to have a Yellow Pages entry of simply "see boring"].

I'm shocked that anyone could think it would be anything else?

Simon

[martin goddard]

Ho Ho Simon

Good one

martin

[Bankinista]

Just on a related note. "Everyone" is upposed to have ICE in their mobile phones. If you are found unconcious it's the contact In Case of Emergency.

Derek of Cambridge

[Leman (Andy)]

I really am on a different planet now aren't I. ICE: something you don't put in your whisky, or a train. Nothing else comes to mind these days.