When did X become Y?

Give me some pedantry about actual meaning and I'll moan with the best.

Words? Tcha! They are just tools to express meaning.

You have misunderstood, wheniwas. I am happy that we are free to moan and for people who find the moaning tiresome to freely say what they think. Equally.

You moan. I complain that you moan. You complain that I complain that you moan.

It's called freedom, and Gransnet is a free microcosm

You are obviously very tolerant, thatbags (except perhaps to some of the pedants among us and to our preference for certain ways of using the language) but please note that I started this thread in Pedants' corner just so that it might attract those who might agree with me and if you are more up to date/tolerant, don't let it get to you.

Thank you, hildajenniJ and JackyB for your explanations of tealights; either, or indeed both,would make sense!

Exactly, GrandTea. 'Boning' has an alternative meaning these days as well...

But if you were boning a corset, you would be putting the bones in ?? confusing.

And if you were boning --- better not go there .

I think.

But never mind. I expect ppl know what I mean.

They should be you.

Even if they don't like it

I wonder if the term de-boning has caught on because people didn't know the meaning of boning? If so, it's a bit lingo-snooty to get all uppity about it when it's perfectly obvious what to de-bone means.

Language is for communicating, after all. If people understand what you're saying, there shouldn't be a problem.

It means the same. How lucky we are to have such a rich language that we can say the same thing in different ways.

I don't mind being a pedant, if it means I am using the words correctly. My current pet hate is, if the definition of boning means to take the bones out of meat fish etc, then does de-boned mean they have been put back in? It is used in menus and cookery programmes very frequently.

bags

Where we lived abroad, skiing was differentiated as "snow skiing" as opposed to water skiing!!!

Think I'd go for some help if I was getting in such a stew about a word (guys). Save your hate for things that really need it, like cruelty.

You has been yous in Scotland forever, gettingonabit. Well, more precisely, one can refer to several people as yous, not one.

I've never heard 'night stand' for bedside table before! Just imagine asking a nice young salesman for a bed and one night stand!

fairy cakes into "cupcakes" anyone?

When my youngest son was a wee lad he called a helicopter a "doodahdit" As far as I know he's now content to use the proper word.
I agree with ffinnochio Pickiness works both ways.

Hate, hate HATE guys. I also get the rage over being called my first name by young children (I always called my friends' parents "auntie/uncle".

"Bare with me" makes me laugh, as does "Chester Draws".

And since when has "you" become "yous"?.

Bags, not Bahs

When she was very young, Minibags's word for tea-light was twl-light. That's a Welsh w, as in cwm. I used to think that she was combining twinkle-light with tea-light. Twinkle, twinkle, little star was her favourite nursery song.

MrBahs and I still call them twl-lights.

My hubby gets annoyed with steam train it is a steam locomotive I don't like patients being called clients ?

I remember having a very laboured conversation with an American about raspberries. She though it must be an exotic Englih fruit but then cottoned on..." oh you mean raresberry." " Yes, raspberry!"

I first heard " Hey you guys" in the 80s and was amazed. Now teachers here use it all the time. Annoying.

Take a chair..............I always want to ask where too?

And bare/bear with me.............Polar, Black, Grizzly??

"Can I get a ……" instead of "please may I have."