Someone very close to me recently used the word 'dilemmarising'
Quote "I am dilemmarising over...." I corrected her, but still had to look it up in the dictionary to prove i was right.

I have used the word many times since (when we are together) to tease her a little - as she regularly pulls me up for my grammar.

One thing that I say quite often is "...done really good" instead of really well - A throw back to when I was a valleys boy!

I think that as Siemens are a German company, they are adopting the EU official language which is of course English. But they probably feel that it could do with a bit of a tweak, see below.


The Council of the European Community Commissioners has announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard 'c' will be replaced with 'k'. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced by 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more complikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent 'e's in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replsing 'th' by 'z', and 'w' by 'v', and 'y' with 'i', with yet anozer leter dropd from ze kiboard.

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou', and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz ier, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Vorsprung Durch Technik as they say in Europe!

Nice one, Bill!

I know somebody who puts 'al' on the end of words that do not require it such as 'electronical,'acoustical' guitar and 'nitrical' oxide. The 'Velycrapter' bicycle tyres he mentioned the other day are apparently named after a well known Jurassic Park dinosaur.

Just been pumping up my velycraptors and spraying the old MAKT ready for the summer!

I think this thread has probably gone as far as it needs to

click....