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And when did "increase" become the idiotic "ramping up"?
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About the same time as transport became transportation. Some folk seem to think that adding extra syllables imparts an air of intelligence. So, I predict that as we have gone from power cut to outage, we'll soon see outagements and thence outagementalization ;-)
Spell check seems to have eliminated disc (a flat round thing) in favor (deliberate) of disk (a computer device).
I wish I hadn't started this, it's endless! Sorry...
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Ian over here ramping refers to the practice of queueing ambulances outside the Triage (where did that word come from?) doors of the emergency departments.
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...and over here the Home Secretary has been disinvited from a pointless meeting in France with their president who is trying to harden his reputation prior to elections.
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Silly arguments by two egotists is one of the causes of recent multiple deaths. One of them is using the same dubious social media system as DJ Trump.
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Dave Wortley, no apologies necessary. I fight against the Americanization of proper English every day. Partly, the culprit is the younger generation here in the US who only communicate by texts, and are often barely able to do that with any competence.
Erich in Mukilteo
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I am horrified at how frequently competence has been changed to competency. Thank you for getting it correct.
