The word "notwithstanding" - it is often used in ways that directly oppose the words "not withstanding".

Then there is "fulsome" - which in my dictionary means "awful", "really bad", etc.

Yet people are using it now to mean complete.

So what am I supposed to take as the meaning when someone says "The contents of this document is fulsome." (I've actually had people say that, leaving me wondering.)

deepest sympathies for @Joseph Teller

I had problems on Friday - unable to take a deep breath, tho thankfully no headaches. I'm tired how so much BS is written and available saying that women are unfair with this 'Feminism Nonsense' and Grimm keeps repeating it to me. One time I screamed at him that I was sick and tired of the 'Women are completely bats! Women were never treated that badly!' to which I quoted to him History - even as it was written by MEN! - on how woman have been treated historically and that yeah, it was pretty freakin bad. (and I used a fictional example that was based on reality - that one shocked him) (GOT's ref, how Queen Aemma Arryn died in House of the Dragon, GRR used Historical examples...something from the Hundred Years War)

But, I am SO tired of the current misogynistic bent of hating Women, even more hate for Women of Intelligence and Education. (mostly cause I'm a woman of Intelligence and education-dealt with crap about that when I lived on LI)

I too am getting tired of the 'why can't women just go back to providing free labour so men can seem successful' moment @Deb Zaccaro-Rojas

As for the topic. I am annoyed at how often the I before E except after C rule fails.

I am trivially irked by the metadialect of English spoken in the USA being more often (and more formally) called American English rather than US English.

There's no real harm because it doesn't cause meaningful confusion over which metadialect it refers to; but other metadialects of English are named nationally rather than continentally.

I am also mildly irked by the label British English, not because I see some harm in treating Britons as no more authorities on the language than any other speaker (if anything, it is advantageous because it helps break the link between civilised/educated and dialect) but because it highlights an inconsistency in whether or not the birthplace of a language is habitually styled as a dialect; for example, outside of abstruse linguistic discourse, does anyone ever describe the language spoken in Paris as French French?

Another bad air day... Glad the heat and bad air are supposed to move out in a day or two.

Verbal annoyances: I still have a gut reaction every time someone uses "less" instead of "fewer" as quantitative adjective to describe something that is countable. The word "fewer" seems to be disappearing from our vocabulary.

The grizzly bear had a toothsome grin! Not toothy?

He was a masterful traveler! Not masterly?

@Dave Higgins [Main Account] - I often say "Parisian French". That's because I was half brought up in Quebec (specifically Montreal) and if I were in Paris and used what I think is French I would be tarred, feathered, and run out of the country on a rail.

When I was working in the UK on and off over two decades regional dialects were quite common. Once a rail agent would not sell me a ticket because he claimed that the town I was trying to get to (Godalming) did not exist - at least not until I pointed to the map and he gave me his (proper) pronunciation. And the midlands were quite an experience - those people speak English?

My sense is that the flow of music and video across borders is quashing many of those regional dialects. Will we all soon sound like LA TV news anchors?

We have an acquaintance who works in the movie industry to help actors speak dialects properly. Because I have utterly no voice talents I hear in awe those who can shift dialects.

@libramoon much like the saying sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

Are you kidding me? Cruel words hurt more than any physical injury and healing is over thick scars.

Denglish

which brings to mind Franglais and Spanglish

When I was working in the UK on and off over two decades regional dialects were quite common.

They still are, @Karl Auerbach; Britons who spend a lot of time consuming mainstream media, especially those who are also performing on it, are as a group drifting toward the pseudo-US-accent but regional accents continue in the vibrant communities outside what the StalkTube algorithm promotes as a picture of modern UK.

My neighbours and I speak with a range of decidedly different not-generic-USian dialect/accent.

Also, damnation upon you and @Carsten Raddatz for disproving my argument! It's people like you who are responsible for the growth of empathy and understanding, and if we don't head that off before it starts the military-industrial complex might not increase profits!

@Muse - I took your cue - I went into the kitchen and started talking to the vegetables and calling them by wrong names. Not a one became upset or even seemed to take umbrage.

For which there is a song...

youtube.com/watch?v=1BAu059IMY…