It really gets up my goat!

Watched a bit of Celebrity Catchphrase yesterday in a moment of boredom. One of the phrases was 'the proof is in the pudding'. Hellooooooo........

From Wiktionary: It is frequently now known in the shorter form the proof is in the pudding, which dates back to the 1920s and came into common use in the United States in the 1950s.

Still wrong IMHO!

Oh.... I must be older than I think I am.

phoenix

Surely if it were going to be shortened, it should have been to 'the proof is in the eating'.

Ana - exactly!

Well- I find those mistakes funny. Life's too short. And anyhow- as a foreigner, I've made many of those mistakes myself in the past.

Mind you, I often pick up mistakes made by the 'natives' - including on here, but would never dream of saying so

Recently someone put on my FB that I am 'a gluten for punishment'. And an e-mail about some relative's 'prostrate' operation. And another about their new 'ménage' (household??? instead of 'manège' horse riding rink).

Ah, well 'c'est la vie' as you say in English

I probably make plenty myself. Granjura I have a friend whose husband is recovering from prostate cancer (thankfully). He has been treated for about 3 years and despite all the hospital appointments, treatment and leaflets etc she still says prostrate cancer, bless here. Least of her worries I'm sure.

granjura Is that ice skating or roller skating horses?

Ice- skating at this time of year, LOL. I did wonder if it was the right word as I was tiping... been back in my French-speaking Jura for 4 years now, and yes- I do feel my English slipping (and not on ice) ...

On the Andrew Marr show this morning, Eric Pickles apologised 'unreservably' for the flood problem not being dealt with more efficiently.

It was a mistake- undoubtably.

They're still out there, bless 'em!