>>>>>>>>I don't know when it changed, but it did. I simply can't remember when anything started on Tuesday, or on any other day of the week.
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>>>>>>>>Didn't anyone else notice?
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>>>>>>>Pretty sure Tuesday starts on Tuesday. Right at the beginning.
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>>>>>>Nope, it's "Tuesday starts Tuesday". Learn newspeak.
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>>>>>Remember that English is a dynamic language – always changing. The vernacular tends to influence our language. What is acceptable today could well change tomorrow. If enough people use a different form of speech then the chances are that those changes will become common. :)
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>>>>I should off guessed :)
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>>>lol
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>>>The reality is painful to me.
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>>>A term from the late 1950’s when transistor radios were becoming the fad was; “I am going to listen to my transistor”. That upset me and still does, so I would tell anyone daring to make such a statement in my presence; “A transistor is a current amplifying device and you 'cannot hear it'. You are listening to a transistor radio”!
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>>We long got over that problem by calling it a "tranny". However, as you probably know, that's the same as teh word for a transvestite. But context gets you round the problem. After all, who ever listens to a cross-dresser?
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>>Similarly, audio tape players are often called a "tape" which I find strange.
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>>>Words change, get chopped off and substituted. You know, it is a bit like technology – always changing especially when you think that you are comfortable! :)
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>>>It has been 35 years since I took English in College. Perhaps I should go back to school and study English as a Second Language! My daughter teaches that subject. I think that I speak a different language, like "Old American English" or something! :)
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>We still tend to say "tape" when recording TV programmes even though its onto a DVD.

Well it would sound silly saying "Can you divvy that program for me" or "... disc that ..." I guess. Not a bad generic use, as the idea of taping audio/visual material has been around for many decades, whereas disc recording hasn't. But I referred to calling the machine a "tape".

I used to be a trainee radiographer. Back in the old days things called "cones" were put on the x-ray projector to narrow the beam/focus. Nowadays focusing lenses are used but they still referred to it as "coning down"