When I was young I saw some Lauren Bacall movie -- I think Key Largo -- which included a line of hers that went something like this: "I didn't have much of a home. George...gave me roots, and the roots took hold"
Being young, I really thought she was talking about sex
as someone told me once or twice on here, don't forget what most of the audience are
Valid pointas someone told me once or twice on here, don't forget what most of the audience are
Yes, I guess many words have changed over the years. As the saying goes, if English didn't 'evolve', we'd all be talking like a Shakespeare play; or, going back further, we'd sound half-German, talking middle or old English.
Geoff Poulter said on radio a while ago that the pronunciation of "debut" has changed. It apparently used to "d'boo", but now it's "dayboo", or even "daybyoo". I reckon the latter is the dumb bogan way
Is that really true?
Oh no. Surely they addressed that in rehearsal.
It might be a less used term but "The Roster" was frequently the term used for the playing schedule.
No way.When Nick Quinn, the TAB betting guy, was talking about the odds on a few Winter Olympic events, he referred to the moguls as the "monguls"
Amazing, hey?
Slightly better than "a whole nother level/story" which I've heard increasingly over the past few months.
