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>> No. 5996 Anonymous
2nd July 2015
Thursday 3:02 pm
5996 BBC
Has anyone else noticed schoolboy mistakes on the BBC website?
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>> No. 6128 Anonymous
27th August 2015
Thursday 2:30 pm
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>>6125

Has anyone else noticed you being a fucking queer?
>> No. 6130 Anonymous
27th August 2015
Thursday 2:33 pm
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>>6128
On the occasions I'm being fucking queer, yeah.
>> No. 6131 Anonymous
27th August 2015
Thursday 3:13 pm
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>>6128

IQ adventurer.
>> No. 6133 Anonymous
27th August 2015
Thursday 5:42 pm
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>>6131

Is that available to pre-order yet?
>> No. 6134 Anonymous
28th August 2015
Friday 1:41 pm
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In June some 600,000 payments failed to reach enter the accounts of RBS customers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34084767
>> No. 6136 Anonymous
3rd September 2015
Thursday 4:00 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/34141910
An FIA statement summarised
>> No. 6137 Anonymous
3rd September 2015
Thursday 4:54 pm
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>>6136
50/50 ball. Strictly should be "A" but will be pronounced "An" in speech.
>> No. 6138 Anonymous
3rd September 2015
Thursday 9:33 pm
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>>6136

Well 'an' is not just for vowels, but for vowel sounds.

'F' can be argued to have a phonetic vowel sound in it: 'an FBI investigation..' etc. The same way that Americans will say 'an herb' because their pronunciation of 'h' can sometimes carry a vowel sound.
>> No. 6139 Anonymous
3rd September 2015
Thursday 11:40 pm
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>>6138
>Well 'an' is not just for vowels, but for vowel sounds.
"Federal" does not begin with a vowel sound.
>> No. 6140 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 7:48 am
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>>6139
But you don't say "Federal", you say "eff".
>> No. 6141 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 8:37 am
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>>6140
In speech, but not in writing. In writing, unless it's an acronym, the abbreviation replaces what it stands for.
>> No. 6142 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 1:00 pm
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>>6141

FBI is an acronym.
>> No. 6143 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 1:22 pm
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>>6142
No it's not.
>> No. 6144 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 1:28 pm
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>>6143
Yes it is.
>> No. 6145 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 1:36 pm
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>>6144
I stand corrected. In which case it should be "a FBI" since the pronunciation "fibby" starts with a consonant sound.
>> No. 6146 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 3:02 pm
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>>6145

Look m8 I've watched all nine series of the x-files in the last couple of months and they all say "eff bee eye" all the time.
>> No. 6147 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 3:44 pm
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>>6146

I've gotten stalled on series 5. Those monster of the week episodes scare me. Not because they're frightening, just because it feels like a lucky dip of quality.
>> No. 6148 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 3:49 pm
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>>6146
So then it ain't an acronym after all. Fuck's sake, make up your minds, lads.
>> No. 6149 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 3:49 pm
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>>6147

I don't know what series it is in, but there was a guy who could talk on peoples illnesses, ailments and diseases. I first watched it when I was 15 and I remember thinking If I had it I could save my Grandad, who raised me, from cancer and because I was younger I'd have a better chance of fighting it off. When I told him this, it was the first time I ever seen the man cry.
>> No. 6150 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 3:53 pm
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>>6148

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

F.B.I (eff bee eye), you daft cunt.
>> No. 6151 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 4:37 pm
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>>6150
I'm getting confused here. I've said it isn't an acronym, and you seem to be agreeing that it isn't an acronym, having just posted the evidence that it isn't an acronym.
>> No. 6152 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 4:43 pm
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>>6151

I'm not sure you know what an acronym is, lad.

"An acronym is an abbreviation, used as a word, which is formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. Usually these components are individual letters (as in NATO..."

or you know.... FBI.

Acronyms don't have to be pronounced as they're written as the acronym SPQR only proves.
>> No. 6153 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 4:50 pm
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Unless you're going to go full pedant and pull us into the Initialism vs Acronym debate, at which point everything becomes futile anyway because FBI as an initialism would still be pronounced "eff bee eye" and would therefore be used in the construction "an FBI investigation".

QED
>> No. 6154 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 4:52 pm
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>>6152
>used as a word
>FBI
Have a word with yourself, lad.
>> No. 6155 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 5:05 pm
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>>6154

> used as a word
> Have a word

I do hope that was an attempt at a joke. If not I invite you to go back retest your logic, this time using the acronyms SCSI, CPU, GUI, and SQL. Let me know which ones you think are words because there are valid pronunciations of them, and which ones you remain convinced are not words. Then try and work which, if any, are acronyms. Boy, this is fun.

Or, you know, just see >>6153

> everything becomes futile anyway because FBI as an initialism would still be pronounced "eff bee eye" and would therefore be used in the construction "an FBI investigation"

Is it 5pm yet? I need a drink.
>> No. 6156 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 5:09 pm
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>>6153
>FBI as an initialism would still be pronounced "eff bee eye" and would therefore be used in the construction "an FBI investigation".
No. As it is not an acronym, in writing you would use the article that goes with what it stands for, because that's what "stands for" means.
>> No. 6158 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 5:22 pm
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>the acronyms SCSI, CPU, GUI, and SQL
Yes, no, yes, and depending on the speaker, in that order. Acronyms are abbreviations used as words, which means they have their own pronunciations. If an abbreviation is used as is a word then it's an acronym and treated a word. If it's not used as a word then it's not an acronym and instead treated as if the words it abbreviates were there instead. Most acronyms are initialisms. Some initialisms are acronyms.
>> No. 6159 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 5:34 pm
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>>6155

Behead those who pronounce GUI as "goo-ey".
>> No. 6160 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 6:02 pm
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>>6158

> Yes, no, yes, and depending on the speaker, in that order.

To say a construction can be an acronym or an initialism according to the whims of the speaker is some serious quantum-linguistical nonsense.

I can imagine the scene now: "Much like observing a photon, we won't know if Donald and Raymond's new database language known as 'SQL' will be an acronym or an initialism until one of them pronounce it for the first time, thus revealing the true nature of the word".

> Acronyms [to] have their own pronunciations

So you would say that the statement "SPQR is an acronym" is false?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym lists quite a few "recursive acronyms" that have no valid pronunciation that I could think of.
>> No. 6161 Anonymous
4th September 2015
Friday 6:07 pm
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>To say a construction can be an acronym or an initialism according to the whims of the speaker is some serious quantum-linguistical nonsense.
Welcome to the English language. If you think that's odd, wait until you see people use adjectives as nouns and nouns as verbs.
>> No. 6163 Anonymous
6th September 2015
Sunday 12:00 pm
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The IchorCoal clipper set off to on the 6,000 mile journey to Brazil on 30 August

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34162728
>> No. 6164 Anonymous
14th September 2015
Monday 2:28 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2cW0Px8xhSXqzDbr5jMdHRB/i-was-there-worst-gadget-in-history-launch-1985

Merged the title from another article.
>> No. 6165 Anonymous
14th September 2015
Monday 6:33 pm
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This one's pretty bad.
>> No. 6166 Anonymous
14th September 2015
Monday 6:43 pm
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I've been noticing a lot of mistakes in the i newspaper lately. Surely they check these things before printing.
>> No. 6168 Anonymous
20th September 2015
Sunday 3:29 pm
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Not a mistake, but thought this quote of an official calling someone autistic was worth mentioning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34307745

Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu called Hungary's actions "autistic and unacceptable".
>> No. 6169 Anonymous
21st September 2015
Monday 2:17 pm
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Their feature on housing benefit refers to the issue of why rents have risen as "the $6 million question".
>> No. 6170 Anonymous
21st September 2015
Monday 2:44 pm
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>>6168

That will only be an issue to those people who get offended at stuff on behalf of others, basically guardian readers.
>> No. 6171 Anonymous
21st September 2015
Monday 4:09 pm
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Also autistic people, who will be confused at the use of "autistic" to describe something other than actual autism.
>> No. 6172 Anonymous
27th September 2015
Sunday 4:56 pm
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"could be limited driving into the city centre."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34257424
>> No. 6179 Anonymous
10th October 2015
Saturday 11:48 am
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The court heard they no shoes, inadequate clothing and were unsupervised.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-34491753
>> No. 6180 Anonymous
14th October 2015
Wednesday 7:32 pm
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Useful...
>> No. 6193 Anonymous
21st October 2015
Wednesday 12:09 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34559870/vin-diesel-online-abuse-is-the-dark-side-of-fame

They forgot to close the quotation marks.
>> No. 6194 Anonymous
21st October 2015
Wednesday 12:13 pm
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>>6193
We're not falling for that again.
>> No. 6195 Anonymous
21st October 2015
Wednesday 3:04 pm
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Sometimes I imagine a gs minigame where we try to spot grammar errors. There could be peer review and a leaderboard and everything.

This thread illustrates why it's the worst idea ever.
>> No. 6196 Anonymous
21st October 2015
Wednesday 4:39 pm
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>>6193

Ross Kemp has let himself go.
>> No. 6197 Anonymous
25th October 2015
Sunday 2:31 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24022774

"fleet-of-foot police officer"
Should be plural.
>> No. 6198 Anonymous
25th October 2015
Sunday 2:40 pm
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>>6197
We're not falling for that one either.
>> No. 6217 Anonymous
11th November 2015
Wednesday 5:05 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34758441

Its claims to have downed the Airbus were initially treated with scepticism.

Should be an apostrophe for it's.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 6218 Anonymous
11th November 2015
Wednesday 6:13 pm
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>>6217
I hope that was a lifetime ban.
>> No. 6219 Anonymous
19th November 2015
Thursday 1:48 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29529578

Hah.

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