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 Posted: Sat Sep 9th, 2017 12:05
Eric



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 The word " capture " is perfectly acceptable as a verb...as in "to capture a moment". Where it goes pear shaped, to coin another modern vernacular, is when people start using verbs as nouns etc. The noun derivative of the verb capture ...is a captIVE. So using capture as a noun is grammatically wrong as well as irritating.

But I have lost all hope of people speaking English proper like what I was learnt.

What irritates me is poor annunciation. The modern tendency to slur STR. So Strange becomes Schtrange. Even BBC news announcers report that dishonoured public figures may be Schtripped of their titles.

Or the strange Caribbean pronunciation of ASK ...which has somehow been adopted by modern youth as AKS....or maybe they spell it AXE as well?

The inablity of nearly everyone on TV to know when to use THE (short e) and when to use THE (long eee). It's theeeee accident, not the accident. They do have problems with their vowels.

And don't get me started with pronouncing H ... Haitch instead of Aitch



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