Randomly listening to Radio 4 yesterday, I captured a few of my favourite bugbear monsters: sikth, intEgral, REsearch but the winner was a woman talking about energy-saving houses.
She said; "whevver peepull really make the most of their 'ouses is a mute point!"
Now, I don't mind accents...but a mute point...
And then there was the email I got from a window company (I am looking for quotes to do the windows on the house in Liverpool):
hi
its the glassman thanks for your email i have looked at your photos
to match the excisting with a 25mm georgian bar supply and fit remove all debris all to fensa regs k glass fire escapes etc.
£5280+vat
kind regards
Andrew
Managing director.
I thought the last 2 words really set it off! If he's the managing director, what are the rest of them like??
I suppose I should be glad he uses spaces in the text...
4 comments:
Ahahaha! I think I come from Pedantia, too!
Some pronunciation does have allowable variants, but 'mute point'? Ha!
Reminds me of Claudia 'Epitome' Winkleman at a recent red carpet event. Yes, she pronounced her honorary middle name 'Epi-tome'. On live television. I hope she spent the next day curled into a foetal ball of whimpering embarrassment, having learned her mistake.
I come from an area of England where 'was you?' and 'I be' are frequently used. I have to remember that my teaching hat is not on sometimes. I wonder why the glassman doesn't turn the spell checker on...
I think you have misunderstood her a moot point is of course one which invites debate but a mute point might be one that says nothing to you at all. You merely shrug your shoulders and say 'so what?'
On the other hand....
Hiya, thanks for the comments. I realise there are misguided people who say inTEGral and REsearch...they are called Americans.
MacDuff...do you think maybe a mute point is actually when you stand with an index finger outstretched and say nowt? Could be...!
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