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Friday, 22 November 2013

Language Barbarism

Who is to blame for the horrible verb "pickpocketing?"  Why has this disgusting construction been foisted on us - and by whom?  

I presume by the same sort of people who would say "mother-in-laws" - and militant cyclists, and global-warmists.

Who would say "pickstrawberrying" or "pickcherrying"?

The word of course should be "pocket-picking" - WITH the bloody hyphen.

Grrr.

Until the next time

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Они бесстрашные защитники и преданные друзья. Английские овчарки

Anonymous said...

being spammed by puppy farmers now....perhaps my comment seemed to venomous to post>>>>>>`O

Paul said...

Bizarre eh?

What was your "venomous" comment? I haven't seem it.

Anonymous said...

oh...I`ve got over that now.. `O "doesn`t eat fried chips on friday " http://dangerousminds.net/comments/lady_junes_linguistic_leprosy_with_brian_eno