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Upward Inflection | Family Guy [HD] 14/12/2025

Ending every sentence with an upward inflection? is it a question? or just an annoyance:

Upward Inflection | Family Guy [HD] Family Guy Season 5: Episode 5 - Whistle While Your Wife WorksThis scene involves Brian and Stewie having small conversation to end a relationship that Brian...

09/05/2024

English is such an easy language. Using the same sounding/spelling for words which have different meanings.
They're there with their friends and you're there with your friends. Mao could read so he read the red book.
We get down from a duck and a horse.

14/11/2023

FUN: noun
enjoyment, amusement, or light-hearted pleasure.
"the children were having fun in the play area"
The Informal use as an adjective:
"it was a fun party"
Used as: "The party was so fun" is OK if you want to sound like a five year old who hasn't quite mastered the language.

20/07/2023

ABC's Michael Rowland is the King of "on-the-ground":
"We are crossing to someone on-the-ground somewhere" - Yesterday morning he referred to the same person as "on-the-ground" three times in the one cross. As Lisa thinks "where else would they be, you idiot"

25/05/2023
19/05/2023

Sir Angus Houston says Australia needs
"more lethality". Oh dear on two counts, “lethality” isn’t a word, and we don’t. Lethal means deadly, so Australia should improve its ability to kill people? Senile Angus are you suggesting death camps?

Photos from Defend The Language's post 10/04/2023

Bruschetta: Bru-sketta, not Bru-shetta
Radicchio: Ra-dee-ke-o. Not Ra-deech-io

04/04/2023

Nothink (nothing), somethink (something), everythink (everything). Why change the "ing" to "ink" (??)

Is it a bank or a tatttoo shop? I'll have the lion on my back

04/04/2023

Shaun the sheep with some EWES - The pural of "ewe" is "ewes". When it comes to YOU there can be more than one of you but as a collective it's still YOU as in "You two" - there is no such word as "YOUSE" - so don't use "YOUSE" when you mean "You" unless you meant "ewes"

04/04/2023

The trick is in the spelling: A-S-K not A-R-K-S
I asked, I didn't, arks.

31/03/2023

BROTHERS-IN-LAW, not Brother-in-laws.
There can be more than one B-I-L but there's only one Law

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