I forgot...

[venta]

...to mention last week, after a trip to Waitrose:

They have a section of one aisle designated (according to the plackard above) Table Stationery.

It's, like, napkins and disposable plates and such.

Table Stationery?

I ask you.

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Congratulations

[wimble.livejournal.com]

You've found a usage of words previously unrecorded in the notes of the OED.

We now invite you to have the horror recorded for posterity, using the OED submission form:
http://www.oed.com/public/readers/submitform.dtl

Re: Congratulations

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is "a board in Waitrose" an acceptable written format, then ? I thought it had to published, or I'd have submitted it...

Re: Congratulations

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I dunno, to be honest. On the other hand, if you can get this page Googled, it's valid ;-)

I'd submit it anyway: the lexicographers can decide what to do with it, and at least we'll have a record of it being used, even it's not from a source we really want to reference.

Re: Congratulations

[venta.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, if you can get this page Googled, it's valid ;-)


A crap plan, if ever I heard one. I thought the OED had more sense :(

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

All I have to add is: "Bathroom Stationery"

[venta.livejournal.com]

Please tell me you made that up.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it's such a choice turn of phrase that I'm trying to crowbar it into the language... :-)

bathroom stationary

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

Sadly, google gives several likely looking hits...

When did toilet roll become toilet tissue?

I was intrigued to see an ad a few years ago for a cream (female specific) for "personal membrane irritation"

Re: bathroom stationary

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

"personal membrane irritation"

Aw, now that is so cool! I love advertising!

By the way, did the cream come with it's own special applicator glove?

Re: bathroom stationary

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

You are a kindred spirit and I claim my five euros.

The english language is such fun.

Last year I was driving through Twyford and kept noticing a sign to an upstairs clinic : "American Hair Removal"

As I sat at the traffic lights I often used to wonder where precisely American Hair was on the body that made it's removal so important.

I had visions of anxious women sitting inside waiting to have embrassing tufts of bum-crack hair removed...

I know, I know. I should get out more.

Re: bathroom stationary

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Ewww. Just ... Ewww.

Somebody please get this man out more (or less)!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

But but but... just think of the number of hilarious stationary/stationery puns that you could make.

And just wait for the corner shops to catch on to the new way of describing such goods and to put up signs with the wrong spelling...

Can you tell I'm bored?

[(Anonymous)]

Does the person who mentioned bathroom stationery and Twyford know that Twyford's used to be (maybe still is) one of the major makers of whatis tweely known as "sanitary ware" i.e. bog pans. And when did lavatory paper become toilet paper I want to know?
The phrase table stationery had already been earmarked for a forthcoming column - does obscure column in provincial paper count for OED??? Spelunca