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This comment is really representative of human ego and over-confidence. Note that I cannot downvote you, but you can downvote me. I offered an anecdote, you of
by anoncoward111 8y ago
This comment is really representative of human ego and over-confidence. Note that I cannot downvote you, but you can downvote me.
I offered an anecdote, you offered an anecdote. Many of my UK colleagues said "heating up a pot of tea".
But, since you are so very confident of yourself and your country, you swear to me that my experience is so wrong that people should not believe it happened.
- evgen 8y agoYou heat up a pot of tea (or would generally just say you are going to put the kettle on), you do not 'hot up the tea'. The usage is specific, which is probably why you did not notice it or pay much attention if you did hear it. OTOH, it is a very common usage when describing weather or competition. It does not take much effort to do a bit of an online search to see that the comment you were replying to was in fact correct that this term is idiomatic British English. This is not anecdote and is easily demonstrated through thousands of examples that are but a short google search away.
- pathseeker 8y ago>demonstrated through thousands of examples that are but a short google search away. There are also thousands of examples of bequeath but a short google search a way but that doesn't mean anything about its place in modern language. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=hotting%20up,heating%20up https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=hotting%20...