When did the UK stop using st, th and nd??
 

All I see in the British media nowdays are dates without the st, nd, rd or th after them.

for example.

"Brown was not home when agents executed a search warrant on 2 January."

you also see it on ads on tv aswell.

"Coming to a cinema near you Jan 2"

So when did this awful Americanism become acceptable in main stream British media?

About the same time everyone started their sentences with "so", which was a short while after everyone started saying "y'know", but a long while after everyone started saying "like" every like other like word :p

Same as when they started calling program series 'seasons'

:nods:

:wall:

Programme.........

I was at a parents night the other day for my daughter - and the sign on the table said "Math" which i quickly got them to change!

Indeed. ;)

(The other spelling is for computing.)

It all started going downhill with text speak and words ending with z instead of s :(

Wt da fook iz dat all aboot? :)

The standard of grammar, literacy as well as correct use of English in the media is atrocious, and is getting worse by the day, even newsreaders are getting it wrong on a daily basis. This is from someone who is mildly dyslexic (mitigated by having to endure a dragon of an English teacher that ruled through fear of her wrath); Even though I make continual errors and fail to recognise them, I can easily spot the errors of others (thankyou Mrs Jones :hjtwofing ).

That said, I do not work for the media so consider myself exempt. However, for those that do and practice poor English skills, I suspect a good portion of them are not of indigenous British heritage or taught by teachers of the same irk and therefore never corrected. Either that or they are just bone idle and rely on checkers within American software, either way it's clear that the majority do not proof read, as so often I read breaking news sections that are amended and end up repeating the same thing three or four times within the same article.

Today I found out what "lit" meant FFS! :facepalm:

Yep, online news articles are utterly atrociously written.

It's military speak, as in 15 Jan 2018. Pretty simple really.

^^^ I prefer it written that way, regardless.

As the st, nd, rd and th is for phonetics, anyway.

DAFUQ!!!!!!

Which was it, night or day ? :lol1:

lol

Well spotted! :lol1:

152027ZJAN18 :)

170849ZJAN18, more civvie confusion! :lol1:

That's why because 'innit.

if you're going to try to confuse us civvies, you could at least get the time right ;)

That's part of the confusion :Suspiciou

And about 50 years after we (that's me and my generation, not the Scoobynet massive) started prefixing every sentence with, "Well,..." or "Er,...".


We probably find it all rather irritating, but my view is let youth have it's day.

No. Let's not. :D

kurwa mac

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Originally Posted by SouthWalesSam
...but my view is let youth have it's [sic] day.

Alright then, but at least allow us befuddled old curmudgeons our oversights. ;)

I guess us Olds had better give way to the Yoof at some point.

When was the last time you heard someone refer to their offspring as children instead of kids?

They're called "young people" these days. :mad:

It's when every child started going to 'Uni'.

Might you, I can't cope with the Australians getting cricket scores back to front -5/205 rather than 205/5.

Aaargh

And why did they rename Septicaemia?

Whilst the media and media world campaigned to promote awareness, just when the public became aware of what it was they adopted a different name which none of the older generations have even heard of! Maybe it was because doctors couldn't spell it or argued on if it should be spelt with an "a". :lol1:

It's Latin translation makes less sense too; Sepsis is a form of lizard!