My gast is really flabbered!

My one thought is that I might enjoy putting such callers in touch with a certain poster and just let them get on with it.

Tried to get it back on track

now.

Someone I know lets it always go to answerphone and only answers those calls they want to - expensive but could be worth it!

Elegran

I started this thread as a mild rant about a phone call - I know threads move on but honestly!

How wize of you, Anno

If you stuck to the -ize form, then practise would become practize. However, this is surely a topic for pedants' corner.

We traditionalists prefer to adhere to the original (Greek) * -ize* spelling, and not join the trendy, Gadarene with their affected (French) -ise spelling.
Here is the OED on the subject:
Concerning the suffix itself, whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Gr. -ιζειν, L. -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic.
In this Dictionary the termination is uniformly written -ize.

It is clear that it has always been "accepted practice" in British English to spell such words as -ize, and
if there is any "pedantic" argument to be made, it would be one that accords with the OED and that would say that to spell the words in the French style as -ise should not really be considered correct even in British English!
(Various sources)

Rushed in again to answer a call and it was that wine company, which I cancelled a few months ago (you know the one!). However, after reading this thread I may re-order some . Exhausting!

I get a nice letter or postcard about twice a week every week from Sky - cancelled over 12 months ago - what a waste of paper. Have sent them back with a message to take me off their list, now ignore them. They must be desperate or have nothing better to do. What a waste of paper and postage.

And what's with all the Zs?

If the powers that be will allow you Soutra

Toxic Soutra but also aggressive with all the bold type, as Hilda said. I will avoid these conversations too. Quite

A little while I asked at what point this discussion had become so toxic but that post has disappeared! May I repeat the (albeit rhetorical) question?

Not sure I like all this heavy handed quoting and time-lining...all seems a bit 'look at me, look at me'....methinks I will avoid conversations that use it from now on.

HildaW Tue 17-Jun-14 12:46:07
Rose.....phew.....was getting worried
Pay attention at the back, and don't get yer Rqs mixed up with yer RrRs.
Mr Gove will Academize U if you carry on that way.

Rose.....phew.....was getting worried

Hilda online encounters with romantic overtones are on the 'up' but not on G'net.
getting back to the original OP , cold calling is getting more and more annoying, even though I rarely speak once I have reached the phone and see the International read out. Sometimes we rush to answer it and arrive breathless from the garden, to find it's just a rubbish call.We generally have about 3 calls a day .

Rosie.......do I detect a romance?

4 U Rozie
AAAM

AAAHM

Eh but

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Or, as Manuel would say "I know nothing"

Thank you, GNHQ - MOST kind and considerate of you.
I am very impressed.
Regards

AAAHM

^Contraction of the words "God's truth"; exclamation, mild oath frequently used by all dinky-di Aussies.
Alternative spelling: strewth.
Strewth! That's a bonza bush telly!^

Having a SIL and another DD's partner who are both Aussies (one born, brought up and living in 'the bush') I have never heard either use that expression! Not sure what 'dinky-di' means so perhaps I have never met a 'dinky-di Aussie' yet, although I have met a fair few Australians. Not ALL are called Bruce or Sheila either (although I have met a couple of Bruces).

I did keep a young man talking on the phone for a very long time not long ago - he wanted to reclaim DH's PPI on a loan DH apparently had. When I told the young man DH had never had a loan, he said in astonishment that 'Everyone has had a loan!'. He claimed to work for a 'World Bank' and got very tied up in knots answering my many questions and going off to find answers from his supervisor. I did thank him for a lovely chat though.

We would like a new boiler, though, but wonder if it would last as long as our old one. However, no-one has ever phoned to ask us, although we get lots of calls about insulation which has already been done years ago.

AAAHappyMan Sun 15-Jun-14 20:03:31
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What would be MOST helpful would be a reference to WHICH guideline, or guidelines, were broken. This could then contribute to a commentary to refine the understanding of the guidelines
As Mr Rumsfeld said .... as we know, there are known knowns; there are things that we know that we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know.
QED ?

HildaW Sun 15-Jun-14 19:18:55
How true, how true.
And, as the Pétroleuses used to say.
Red sky at night, sheep herder's warning.
The hay barn's on fire.