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<blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 978598" data-attributes="member: 176256">Talking of commentators, amongst the many things that irritate me is when they talk about &quot;one pence&quot;.&nbsp; Pence is plural FFS, what you really mean is &quot;one penny&quot; you ignoramus.&quot;Amongst the many things&quot;?&nbsp; Ok, since you ask:Commentators seeking to imply extra accuracy talk about the epicentre of something.&nbsp; Epicentre has a strict definition in geology of being the point on the earth's surface which is directly above the centre of an earthquake.&nbsp; So, when they say so-and-so was the epicentre they're actually saying that it's further away than the centre - the exact opposite of what they think they're saying.Then there's decimating.&nbsp; The morons seem to think that this is widescale in coverage.&nbsp; In fact it refers to a one in ten reduction.&nbsp; So when a forest is decimated by a fire there's actually only one tenth gone..Oh, and what about &quot;there's&quot;?&nbsp; This is short for &quot;there is&quot; (sometimes there has) and refers to a single item, event or whatever.&nbsp; If it's more than one then use &quot;there are&quot; or &quot;there're&quot;.I might have fulminated on about this before in which case I apologise for raking over old coals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PaulR, post: 978598, member: 176256"] Talking of commentators, amongst the many things that irritate me is when they talk about "one pence". Pence is plural FFS, what you really mean is "one penny" you ignoramus. "Amongst the many things"? Ok, since you ask: Commentators seeking to imply extra accuracy talk about the epicentre of something. Epicentre has a strict definition in geology of being the point on the earth's surface which is directly above the centre of an earthquake. So, when they say so-and-so was the epicentre they're actually saying that it's further away than the centre - the exact opposite of what they think they're saying. Then there's decimating. The morons seem to think that this is widescale in coverage. In fact it refers to a one in ten reduction. So when a forest is decimated by a fire there's actually only one tenth gone.. Oh, and what about "there's"? This is short for "there is" (sometimes there has) and refers to a single item, event or whatever. If it's more than one then use "there are" or "there're". I might have fulminated on about this before in which case I apologise for raking over old coals. [/QUOTE]

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