Chris Evans for Top Gear

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Chris Evans for Top Gear

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Oh dear. Would have been a good time to let TG die a dignified death, but now an over-exposed host is being replaced by an even more over-exposed host. And so much for I won't be doing Top Gear, Chris Evans.
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Indeed. I didn't watch the last series and struggled with the one before that. IMHO, they had plainly run out of ideas. I won't be watching the reincarnation with Chris Evans.
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So a dire programme somehow managed to get worse!
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Actually I'm not all that phased about Chris Evans being the first of the three to be named, if we are having a lady presenter can you make it Susie Perry please and as a bit of a left field let's have a comic L
Sir Lenny Henry perhaps?
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wherever Clarkson, Hammond & May end up will be the real Top Gear to fans like me anyway, I'll give the Evans show a chance but if they try to copy the feel of the previous incarnation it just won't work
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Noddy555 wrote:Actually I'm not all that phased about Chris Evans being the first of the three to be named, if we are having a lady presenter can you make it Susie Perry please and as a bit of a left field let's have a comic L
Sir Lenny Henry perhaps?
I think you mean fazed!
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No Dicky P I mean phased, fazed is an American word and I do so hate the Americanisation of English, having been a teacher of English to ESN students I've lost count of the times Ive had to correct the spelling of tonite to it's proper form tonight.
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Re: Chris Evans for Top Gear

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Noddy555 wrote:No Dicky P I mean phased, fazed is an American word and I do so hate the Americanisation of English, having been a teacher of English to ESN students I've lost count of the times Ive had to correct the spelling of tonite to it's proper form tonight.
Do so hate? Also, what is 'Ive'?
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Noddy555 wrote:No Dicky P I mean phased, fazed is an American word and I do so hate the Americanisation of English, having been a teacher of English to ESN students I've lost count of the times Ive had to correct the spelling of tonite to it's proper form tonight.
I too detest unnecessary Americanisms in British English but this isn't one of them! I suggest you go and look at the OED - the words mean completely different things! Phased means to do things in stages, whereas fazed (in the main OED since 1890, although not the COED until the 5th Edition in 1964) means to disturb or disconcert. Yes, 'faze' is a word of (distant) American origin but if you want to avoid it use a meaningful alternative!
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Tenax wrote:
Noddy555 wrote:No Dicky P I mean phased, fazed is an American word and I do so hate the Americanisation of English, having been a teacher of English to ESN students I've lost count of the times Ive had to correct the spelling of tonite to it's proper form tonight.
Do so hate? Also, what is 'Ive'?
I think you know what Noddy has done. He has used all the right apostrophes, just not necessarily in the right order.
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