I think the Aussie's vote each other off and evict someone.

When do we start our next task ? we cannot leave it too long if it has to be in by Monday!

Bit upset really I had my vote already to go

You call dessert "dessert". You call the pudding course "pudding" of course.

I have in my kitchen an old print of "The Burgomaster's Dessert" by George Lance who's mother (aptly for our little task) was a Constable of Burton Constable Hall near Hull) which illustrates, err, a dessert:
as well as a parrot - he'd perhaps make a nice starter?

(Sits back smiling ruefully in smug English superiority mode.)

Let us be honest here a vanilla slice is a Bun!

Silly Auusies!! not only do they not grasp our language they live like peasants who class a 3 course meal as a sausage roll, a bun and a bottle of beer.....simply no class

Couple of days to evict someone, then we'll start task 2. I've pm'd the judges the menus, so hopefully we'll have a result soonish.

While we wait... WiH - what if a word which originally meant one thing comes, through common usage, to mean something else? I'm not sure an Academie Francaisesque attitude adequately acknowledges the way in which language evolves.

Like "smash it", you mean? If I had a quid for every time that phrase popped up on the X Factor this weekend, I'd have enough cash for a Rovers ladies hoodie modelled by Krissy. And Kelly Rowland (in my head I pronounce it Row-Land like that girl on Grange Hill who was friends with the rather rotund Roland) is always saying "Bring it". I don't think either of these "evolutions" in language are to be condoned, personally.

Like 'sick'...which now apparently means great...I could go on

The only 'smash it' I've come across is the one that cost Richard Keys his job. 'Gay' is an obvious example. Evolution doesn't care if it is condoned. The dinosaurs never called cake and custard 'dessert' - but where are they now?

Why you asking us where the dinosaurs have gone, your the scientist!


Tell me what kind of scientist are you ? (not being rude but I have conjured up visions of the tetley tea men


Technically I am considered a social scientist (from my last degree), defiantly do not feel like one though

I'm a scientist too, always 'experimenting'.

How silly would we feel if beaten by a menu that included a ketchup doused sausage roll?

Evolution isn't always brilliant though, is it? We've evolved into a nation that spends 6 hours a weekend watching Reality tv. Apart from the dinosaurs amongst us, obviously.

I quite liked Ken's snot block.

Rovette heard that from her niece a couple of years ago - I didn't know if it had become fixed and/or gone beyond slang. Dessert as pudding, seems to be a widely accepted definition now.

Good team captain though, for all her hang-ups and idiosyncrasies.

Bioscience.
I work in a Genetics Department.

Like "bog", you mean? Quite acceptable in this case.

But "greens", for example, will only ever be different shades of green. It will never be acceptable to refer to vegetables as "greens", even if they're green.

Just as "glasses" will only ever be vessels you drink out of, or magnifying instruments for the opera or the countryside but can never be spectacles.

Looking glass, however, originally referred to a hand held polished surface which showed the holder a reflection of their image, but has now come to mean any piece of glass - huge or tiny, with a silvered reflective back. So that's evolved and now means something different (You must never, of course, refer to a "mirror".)

One of the most hideous examples is the misuse of the word "home". You can be "at home", or "going home" as "home" is an abstract noun. But you can only build a house, or buy a flat (not apartment!). Most sadly, "home" has become, by common usage, a word used incorrectly to describe the physical building in which you live. "I've bought a new couch for my home". Quite beyond the pale. This is why you may visit an "historic house" or go to stay in a "country house" but a "stately home" does not exist.

I am very worried by the thought that McLaran Field might be partial to that vanilla slice.

Wormy was a very good captain this week, she has set the bar, a lot of pressure now for the rest of the team when their turn comes.
I always thought Wormy was an English teacher if I am honest, she certainly has a passion for the English language and clearly knows her stuff.

Ahh...

Is this your dog?

Shucks

. Did nothing but shout and demand ideas but didn't come up with many good ones myself. My poor little pig, for example. dum-dum was a bit of a hero, though.

I call my glasses/specatcles "bins". And my brother calls contact lenses "Duncans"; Duncan McKenzies -> lenses.

Crikey you must be mad, I am presently studying for my anatomy & physiology exam in May, it is a nightmare

She is.

"Gay" is a good one. I think that is acceptable now, but only in addition to the traditional meanings.

Nah - I think although he wasn't in attendance, Sandra left a great deal with us.