Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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AnnoyinglyI read recently that the discoverer of aluminium did actually call it "aluminum" but some anal types at the Royal Society (or somewhere similar) insisted that all the elements around that time ended in
"-ium".
So, for once, the damned yanks are spot on.
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But then they started saying it right.And changed it again in the 1920s. Fucks me off no end when writing for American journals. Especially they way they railroaded "sulfur" as the international chemical spelling. When's the transfer to fosforus?
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:27,
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