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Marketing 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

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Elizabethans generally did. Their approach to spelling and grammar was liberal to say the very least.

(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:00, 2 replies)
Bloody idiots; the lot of 'em.

(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:07, closed)
because no one could read and write
but now nearly everyone can, there is no excuse.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:35, closed)
Yebbut language is always evolving, innit?
Part of that is through common misspelling. Look at "OK" - the origins of that are already getting lost in the myftf of thyme.

Aluminium likewise - the Shermans are right, we're wrong - the i was put in by Europeans who didn't like the spelling, which was originally linguisitically more accurate.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:53, closed)

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