Nooooo, despo, no! No! Not you. Don't be one of them.

I once overheard a pub bore saying "Tchoh, I just HATE it when people ask for "A panini". "A" panini. "A"!!! It's "panino" [or whatever the hell the singular actually is, like anyone ever gave a fack (singular of f***. Maybe.)]"

No you don't hate it, you f***ing love it. Because ("Worrac*** - started his sentence with a conjunction!" ) it gives you the opportunity to spout off in a pub to people who suddenly wish they were anywhere else about an unknown, commonplace and so-what minor error, under the mistaken notion that this somehow makes you interesting or better than others. Yawn. It's just like paparazzi/o and the Union Jack/Flag - we all know but no-one actually gives a flying one. Craig Brown wrote a funny piece about a chap who had to eject himself from a meeting of the Pedants' Society for forgetting to indicate that Frankenstein is not the name of the monster. We all know! (Or sometimes don't, but wouldn't care if we did.)

It's panini. 'Cos it just is. And if I ever hear you saying "Porsche(r)" then I shall express(o)ly shove several paninos up your tailpipe (no-one says 'folksvagen'. It's Porsche. Here. Auf Deutsch - Porsche['r'], naturlich. (Help me out, Johnny...))

But I shall overlook this one blemish.

Edited by Eustace H. Plimsoll (29 Apr 2015 9.53pm)

Oh eustace a new thread. People who get irritated by trivia. Eg hoi pollloi already has the definitive article. Why oh why would anyone say THE hoi polloi. b******S!!!!

When did Boadicea become Boo-Dicker?

Marathons become Snickers?

Oh and not knowing the difference between 'less' and 'fewer' and as a result between 'number of' and 'amount of'.

E.g.: "Chelsea have got a large amount of injured players in their squad, Palace have got a lot less injured players in their's".

WRONG.