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Thread #132499   Message #4136476
Posted By: Geoff Wallis
13-Feb-22 - 01:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
'Invite' has been around a long time as a perfectly justifiable noun.

See Words at play.

In Ireland the name Dónal is usually pronounced to rhyme with 'tonal', though parts of Belfast may be an exception.

My personal bugbear is the often inappropriate use of the word 'fury' in newspaper headlines when mere 'anger' or 'concern' may be more appropriate. I'm also not fond of the increasing use 'outlined' in newspaper reports instead of the perfectly adequate and more accurate 'described'.

Ta-ta.