I can tell you really hate it.Interim.
I prefer "semi-permanent-but-not-yet-erstwhile".Interim.
Yankee sports terminology worming its way into this side of the Atlantic.
Pleaded seems to be preferred among lawyers.Read, read.
Lead, led.
Plead... pled? Some people do say and write that.
I'm sure pled is used in the UK but that might be just informally in non-legal contexts.Pleaded seems to be preferred among lawyers.
I can't quite answer this fully but kneel follows the same spelling pattern as feel, deal and sleep, amongst others; the long E sound in certain English verbs undergoes an umlaut shift in the past tense. English doesn't have umlaut marks (unlike other Germanic languages) but the spelling and sounds are still changed.Pay, paid.
Play, played.
Keel, keeled.
Kneel, knelt.
Corporate buzzwords could have their own thread, honestly.My line manager loves the phrase "taking ownership" when referring to how employees should approach work. You're not offering me shares or any other form of control of the means of production, just say "accept responsibility" instead of that Linkedinese crap.
In the general context it is ok-ish, however, I think it is so overused in F1 and motorsport that for me it's beyond diminishing the phrase. Ok-ish as a generalisation and where it's caveated on statistical data (in which case 7 is categorically greater than 5).I have no issues with using the word "GOAT" as an acronym for "Greatest of all Time". It's a good, catchy name for it and a vaguely humourous metaphor to imagine a great sports person as the animal. Yes, it's overused and the meaning diminishes as the phrase is a few years old now, but it still works.
Ok I do not get that at all.However, in the last few months in brainrot doomscrolling, I have seen a related but utterly awful acronym start to enter the phraseology.
"oat" - for "of all time"
Not OAT or O.A.T. to show it's an acronym, but just generally oat all in lowercase. This isn't being used as a Noun like Goat where it feels like a name and works in the bad grammar sentences, but is just smashed into a statement as an adjective while disguising itself as a noun for a singular piece of a cereal.
C'mon. I grew up in the golden age of text speak in the 2000's and at least there was some logic and cre8iviT behind those shorthand comments. I doubt a Tiktok or Snapchat caption needs to be that lazy.
This truly is one of the worst pieces of slang oat.