Like the wind...@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?message-squaremessage-square261fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up191arrow-down1message-squareWhat seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?Like the wind...@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square261fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelemonmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-21 month 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-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month 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”.