Originally posted by purclecowWhere I live we use 'binns' as a derogatory term
the bad thing is that in my job i have to ask for them alot and i just get funny looks while i splutter trying to say the word and end haveing to say "can you pass me the looky things please"
for spectacles, I guess you could use that, and
pretend your just saving time saying the full word.
I laughed when I first saw your post. and must of
said bin-nock-yo-louss twenty times since🙂
I had a girlfriend from Spain who used to say Cocrodile, even though her English was reasonable. When I asked her why, she asked me what she should be saying. When I told her it was Crocodile she said that it wasn't and that the Spanish was Cocrodilo so the English should be Cocrodile as they were both derived from the same Latin root, We argued this for ages in quite a heated fashion until I eventually pulled out a latin dictionary and proved it to her. She then had the gall to claim my dictionary was wrong and went in search of her Spanish one.
Let me just make it clear to you before I go any further, that not many times in our passionate, but miserable relationship, did I ever have cause to feel smug. Cristina had a way of making you feel wrong for making her feel wrong, so even when you were right...you were wrong.
So back to the story, she's whirling round the room throwing draws onto the floor in a desperate tornado of need. And finally she finds the dictionary, flicks to the correct page with a triumphant gleam in her eyes (one I might add has a degree of vindictive cruelty in it) and says....
"This relationship isn't working."...
From victory to utter speechlessness in quicker than it takes for you to say thesaurus 😞
