The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99614   Message #1989829
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
07-Mar-07 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Declining Standards of English
Subject: RE: BS: Declining Standards of English
Ranger Steve said (inter alia):

One of the many trade schools that advertise every five minutes on daytime TV has a commercial with the phrase "Hire Education" across the top of the screen.

Maybe it's on purpose, to suggest that after attending their establishment you'll get employment. (Actually, now that I wrote that in jest, I think that might really be the purpose.)

And people who talk about Lyme's Disease. (That's an eastern U.S. disease carried by tics. It's fairly common in the northeast and pretty serious). It's LYME disease - from the town of Lyme, Connecticut, where it was first discovered, not named after a guy named Lyme.

That's an example of a wider phenomenon. There's a chain of Italian restaurants called "Bravo". I lost count long ago of the people who suggest, "Let's go to Bravo's." And similarly with other restaurant names.

Dave Oesterreich