The summer blues... to Ask LemmyEnglish • 10 days agoWhat seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?message-square261fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down115file-text
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minus-square@lemonmelonlink11•edit-210 days agoYeah, I also can’t stand it when words are used to convey meanings they’ve had for roughly five hundred years. Etymology of "ouster’
minus-square@jordanlundlink2•10 days agoThat have fallen out of use then come back nonsensically. Newspapers also loved using “gantlet” instead of “gauntlet” for a time as well. Nobody fucking says “run the gantlet”.
Yeah, I also can’t stand it when words are used to convey meanings they’ve had for roughly five hundred years.
Etymology of "ouster’
That have fallen out of use then come back nonsensically.
Newspapers also loved using “gantlet” instead of “gauntlet” for a time as well.
Nobody fucking says “run the gantlet”.