The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132499   Message #4175116
Posted By: Steve Shaw
21-Jun-23 - 04:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Aside from the fact that the link is dead, that doesn't seem to fit in this thread very well. Still, the poster has hedged their bets by sticking the post in two separate threads! :-)

My pet peeve of the day, very topical, is the misuse of "solstice." Even the weather forecaster on radio 4 this morning, a professional meteorologist, told us that today is the summer solstice. Well that's not right at all. The solstice occurs today, but it's an instant in time, not the whole day. For us Brits it occurs at 3.58 this afternoon. I'll stop digging my garden for a moment, look heavenwards and pretend I'm a Druid, just for a minute...