codeman"and you're like, i totally agree"38

L,LOL

> I want to know when "all of a sudden" became "all the sudden." I despise that. And is there really a difference between an incident and an incidence? If not, can't we please just use "incidents" instead of "incidences?" These are used by people who are supposed to have some command of the language in order to do their jobs (newscasters).

Ack. Don't get me started on what newsreaders do to the language. Maybe they get paid by the syllable.
Having said that, one of the greatest events in the history of New Zealand television news was when the elegant Judy Bailey mispronounced "downtown city shoppers" as "downtown [word that sounds like city] sloppers".

Brunnen-"bring back Phillip Sherry, the man with more eyebrows per square inch of his face than any other newsreader in the world"G