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Just back from an Emirates flight, where the instructions on the screen says 'Be careful when opening the HATRACK'

This is not the correct word for the Overhead Storage.

 

Others I dispute are FOOTAGE when applied to say news reports, and VT rolling. They don't use videotape any more.

MIXTAPE is one I hear regularly on the radio. Who uses tape?

 

So come on, let's have a few more Out of Date phrases or sayings. Just for fun and not to confuse anyone!

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18 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Others I dispute are FOOTAGE when applied to say news reports, and VT rolling. They don't use videotape any more.

I think footage was to do with film.

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Mobile phone

 

Hand phone

 

While not every phone is mobile certainly the vast majority of them are. Therefore, it's quite redundant to call a "mobile phone* such.

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4 minutes ago, markclover said:

The wording in British passports ''to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance'' is out of date.

And also the phrase 'Leave to Stay" when applied to a UK Visa

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12 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I think footage was to do with film.

Correct, that's why I quoted it.

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8 minutes ago, The Fugitive said:

Not wrong but often causes instant confusion; 'Next Wednesday'. Does that mean Wednesday next week or the next occuring Wednesday i.e. this week?

"This Wednesday" would be used to imply this week, "Next Wednesday" is next week.

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18 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Apparently the correct words would be 'person with semen' and 'receptacle for semen'

And what if they are the same?

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16 minutes ago, The Fugitive said:

Not wrong but often causes instant confusion; 'Next Wednesday'. Does that mean Wednesday next week or the next occuring Wednesday i.e. this week?

Depends on when they choose to repay the loan.

Optional.????????

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3 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

"This Wednesday" would be used to imply this week, "Next Wednesday" is next week.

Absolutely. It's poor English. Another example are signs in shop windows; 'Shop closed from..........to'. The 'from' date is clear but the 'to' date, is that inclusive or not? Canny shopkeepers will write 'reopen on....' to avoid that confusion.  

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3 minutes ago, jvs said:

But now we have a Camel toe bar,same same but different.

 

Don't know what that is. 

My car has a suspension but i can still use it. 

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1 hour ago, The Fugitive said:

Absolutely. It's poor English. Another example are signs in shop windows; 'Shop closed from..........to'. The 'from' date is clear but the 'to' date, is that inclusive or not? Canny shopkeepers will write 'reopen on....' to avoid that confusion.  

And signs which say "Open Monday to Sunday".

Or petrol stations open "Not 24 hours"

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1 hour ago, digbeth said:

I've neve kept any gloves in the glovebox compartment of my car ever

That is why I quoted it.

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44 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Toe bar. 

If referring to motoring, it is TOW bar, you know, to TOW the car with.

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12 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

If referring to motoring, it is TOW bar, you know, to TOW the car with.

yeah right. what's next, some nonsense about breaks and break lights? 

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