Jeremy Butterfield
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Jeremy Butterfield
@JerButterfield2
OUP Author & Editor of Fowler, savant & wit. Language stuff on https://t.co/viuwglaPED and my other profile @JemMButterfield. Pronouns: one/one's; we/our
York, North Yorkshire Katılım Mart 2017
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#TheArchers Public Service Broadcasting switches from mental elf to careers advice. Whatever next?
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@RobJLow D'oh It wasn't feeble; I'm slow on the uptake.
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@JerButterfield2 I was clumsily suggesting the need for a new SuperLen. It was a pretty feeble pun, I admit it :-(
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#TheArchers Cracked bell at the church - and you tell me SuperLen can't mend it. Ridiculous.
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@JerButterfield2 Burnt, semi-burnt, slightly raw, raw…Ruth has a full recipe book of them. #TheArchers
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#TheArchers How many different recipes are there for lasagne, Ben?
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#TheArchers You should have pimped your dish as 'melanzane alla parmigiana', Adam!
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#TheArchers Grumpy old Carol Begorrah is right about proverbs: you usually say 'You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink' about other people.
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#TheArchers Hellon's line 'Who wouldn't want to be involved in a new cheese' has made my day and made me spit out my metaphorical coffee. Thanks SWs.
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#BBCGQT I was in tears over Matt's story. I imagine the panel might have been fighting them back.
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@portraitinflesh I'll have to take your word for it. Was that the film's title?
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@JerButterfield2 I think the Judd Apatow movie made a big difference. #thearchers
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#TheArchers A bit shocked to hear Amber refer to herself as 'knocked up'. I'd regard it as 'low slang' in OED speak. Or has it come up in the world wiv ve yoof?
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To be clear, I don't at all object to #thearchers dealing with serious issues that affect real women. But there's simply no effort at all to make this sound like real dialogue. Just page after page of characterless, box-ticking, charity-approved exposition. Utterly dismal stuff.
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@portraitinflesh You express what I thought. It was interesting to hear the actors' voice disengage as they read the stuff.
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I've never heard a less organic conversation in my life. It's like they've literally pasted an entire press release about modern day misogyny right into the script. Quite extraordinary, even by #thearchers standards.
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#TheArchers Stella, I thought you were too sensible to utter that fatal phrase 'I'll put it on the credit card'. That's Nocasha's Shtick.
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#TheArchers Every day a school day with The Archers! Thanks to my DK butterfly book I now now what a Duke of Burgundy is.
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"Go spread some pellets." Is that a euphemism for Adam's morning constitutional? #TheArchers
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