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NY Boro - arghhhhhhhh it’s not pay check ! .................It’s payslip . Sorry it’s just the little things such as back yard being a back garden and fall being autumn .

Ooh I feel another thread coming on 🤓


It is paycheck - people used to be paid by check - or cheque - so you got the payslip and the check together. Paycheck has just stuck as the name for it although people are paid electronically nowadays.
 
It is paycheck - people used to be paid by check - or cheque - so you got the payslip and the check together. Paycheck has just stuck as the name for it although people are paid electronically nowadays.
People were bleeding paid by the privilege of living on the employers manor or even chickens !
 
A lot of people here still are paid by cheque and a surprising number have no kind of bank account.
 
True. I have a couple of employees without bank accounts. They take it to a local cash checking store. Think the fee is about $3 bucks. One of my employees was so worried she refused to get an account or drivers licence because of the possibility of outstanding warrants from another state.
 
NY your job should you wish to take it is to show emfwhacct a back yard really e
True. I have a couple of employees without bank accounts. They take it to a local cash checking store. Think the fee is about $3 bucks. One of my employees was so worried she refused to get an account or drivers licence because of the possibility of outstanding warrants from another state.
that wouldn’t trouble me as much as the calibre of my leader being one which suggests a good swill of Domestos with my morning routine 🤮
 
'can I get'

to which the reply should be

'yes, go ahead and get it'

Never a please in there either, once again, it's the UK mimicking US television..
"Can I get" really winds me up for some reason.

I think it's the same as you Corcaigh: it isn't using different words it actually has a different meaning. "Can I get a latte" "I mean, you could, are you could stand at the end whilst I make it and you could have a latte anyway"
 
Tell you what , I’d love to teach em the difference between a back yard and a back garden.
When I was a nipper in the town back in the 70s my job was to swill the back yard AND the outside bog . 🤯

Not that I’m bitter !
 
Why the American need to use the word bi-weekly when fortnightly would suffice just fine.

Right I’m off outside in the garden to cool down . Ain’t life hard huh 😉
 
Why the American need to use the word bi-weekly when fortnightly would suffice just fine.

Right I’m off outside in the garden to cool down . Ain’t life hard huh 😉

Yep. Bi weekly should mean twice a week not once every two weeks.

My biggest pet hate is “my bad”. Awful expression. Sounds grammatically awful and is an attempt to be cute (Very USA).

Also, why have people started to say “I could care less” when they surely mean “I couldn’t care less”? Unless, of course, they mean they actually do care, but their tone often suggests otherwise.
 
I forgot about Math 😡 . Sounds unfinished so if you want to be overly descriptive say mathematics !

Then again what’s wrong with sums ? The listener will know what you mean .
 
I get annoyed that they often leave out prepositions. For example:

'Donald Trump suggested that we drink disinfectant at the press briefing Thursday evening'

Where it should have been:

'Donald Trump suggested that we drink disinfectant at the press briefing on Thursday evening'
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I get annoyed that they often leave out prepositions. For example:

'Donald Trump suggested that we drink disinfectant at the press briefing Thursday evening'

Where it should have been:

'Donald Trump suggested that we drink disinfectant at the press briefing on Thursday evening'
So, on which Thursday evening will the press briefing participants drink disinfectant? Perhaps that's why Trump has said he'll stop attending? He's not so stupid after all.
 
Until I had the misfortune of having dealings with some Americans I didn't realise they use actually use the the made-up contraction "y'all" in emails, on top of all the horrendous mis-spellings and mutilations of the English language. Barbarians.

On the othe hand they did produce The Sopranos. So, swings and roundabouts.
 
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