Is it only me that goes grrr at this phrase?

Thank you absent! And JackyB - I picked up 'come round mine' when I lived in Suffolk!
I feel rather like a magpie, picking up all sorts of odd sayings from places I lived and people I have known - funny how some stick and others don't.
I love hearing different expressions and ways of speaking - some I like and some I don't, but they rarely annoy me the way they do some on here.

As this is pedants’ corner Phoenix I think you will find it is New Year’s Eve not New Years Eve .

It is Ne'erday

Some say it was 6AD.

Perhaps it's safest to use CE, Current Era.

rubysong if the new Millennium began in 2000 AD then now is the beginning of a new decade - the Tolerant Twenties.

Of course AD is a moot point too, could have been 3 BC (that wouldn't be right either, would it).

I always thought ‘Kohl’ was German for cabbage, which amused me when they had an eminent politician by that name. Dare say I have mis-remembered my very rusty German, though.,

Whatever they call it, my own ‘cabbage salad’ is a winter staple here - cabbage , carrots, celery, onion and apple, all chopped or shredded small, with just enough mayonnaise to bind it.
Goes v nicely with cold ham and baked potatoes, guess what we’re having tonight....

Thanks Kryptonite for engaging with my rant about the decade. (It was late and post-sherry). I'm comfortable with ' we are now in the twenties', which to me is a different thing.
I love this thread.

If it was Alec's car then perhaps Tess has her own, ie Tess's car

So it would be the Joneses' cars ?

Or, if people prefer the grocer's grammar: the Jones' car's.
Or if more than one grocer...

Oh, Happy New Year

I expect the Waleses have several.

I'm getting confused now!

Did I mean, when referring to the car belonging to the Joneses, "the Joneses' car"?

I think I did.

Or, say, Alec Jones's car.

I thought it was The Jones’

Joneses is plural

Apostrophes indicate possession or something missing, never plurals, though they are widely used incorrectly.

So you could refer to the Jones' car, meaning the car of (belonging to) the Joneses.

A propos decades:why do people insist on pronouncing it "decayed".,wirh the emphasis on the 2nd syllable?

Nannarose The word coleslaw is derived from Dutch – koolsla, meaning cabbage salad.

jacalpad I know just how you feel about gateaux's – a double offence with both an apostrophe and and an s. I feel the same way whenever I see paninis, given that panini is already plural. The use and then misuse of foreign words when there are perfectly adequate English ones is pretentious and unnecessary.

Callistemon ??

So he text me and then I text him.

rubysong. Decade. Yes I see what you mean I think, though it's getting late. Do you mean we've already done 2020 years and we're going into the 2021st, like when you have a birthday, say your 50th, it means you've done fifty years and you're entering your 51st year? Or like calling the 1900s the twentieth century? So if we're going into 2021 now, it is the start of a new decade. Hope so, because I've been wishing a happy one of those quite freely.

Phoebes We have always said "Come round mine" and the like. It wasn't till I was in the sixth form that I learnt that it was a dialect thing (Suffolk, probably also Norfolk)

It's not so much the destination that counts but the journey. So say many who've had trying or challenging life experiences. I've noticed that it's become popular lately to disparage the use of this metaphor, but it has always been favoured in literature. Anyone who's ever had a difficult journey (like the time our family tried to find our holiday home in a strange land, up a mountain, in the dark, in an unfamiliar car) can appreciate the comparison to life's unexpected and difficult twists and turns.

My problem at the moment is people saying we are about to enter a new decade. If a decade is ten years it should go from one to ten (zero) therefore we are entering the final year of the decade. Is it just me? Yes, I think it is.

Meanwhile a lovely cafe in Headington is serving a selection of 'deserts' and the launderette in Spalding will be closed 'untill' 2nd January.

"How are you?"
"I'm good."
"So pleased to hear that, but how are you?"

Yes, it's quite obvious that those leaflets are created by teenagers and edited by - probably no one. The majority of adverts on TV are no better. Gone are the days when they used to be an art form. I follow my 92 year old mum's example of turning the sound down on all the mind-numbing dross.

Language is for ever changing, if it wasn't we would all be speaking in a very different manner to the way we do now. I have no idea why people become so offended by modern changes. Shakespeare and Dickens both invented words and terms. Is it a sign of age to be offended by new things?

Canadians speak properly though, don't they?
The ones I know do, none of yer brash Americanisms

W'ere be to, me 'andsum?
Thought you be to the New Year 'op?