The summer blues...@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoWhat seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?message-squaremessage-square261fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up190arrow-down1message-squareWhat seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?The summer blues...@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square261fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelemonmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-212 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-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·12 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”.